Void Linux is the Real Deal
Well…there has been a lot of time on most of our hands. I got bored and started to check out some different linux distros. If you’ve kept up with the blog, I’ve hopped around between a few but I’ve happily been settled on Fedora. Fedora has been extremely good to me and ‘just works’. I still don’t like the fact I have a bunch of software I don’t use installed and how the home folder is structured. I like starting with a blank slate which Arch offers but I spent too much time fixing and it just wasn’t stable enough for a main driver.
I have an old PC I test drive some new distros on. After some research, I settled on trying Void out. It provides a TUI install interface, which gets rid of the arch install process but leaves you with a blank directory and unbuild OS that you can start to customize. Rather than pacman for the package manager it uses its own xbps. Its lightweight and fast. I searched the respositories and it has almost all the packages I use and if not, you can always install from source.
I spent enough time to get my standard polybar and bspwm setup on the new machine. Void uses runit instead of systemd for a system service manager. I considering it amazing. You simply link the services you want into a folder. Simple commands like up/down/status are all it takes to configure the system. Void seems to be the OS I dream of. Install was a breeze and i was given a blank canvas at the end. I was even able to get the wifi going on the macbook pro which is usually a chore in itself.
I’ll be watching you Void…keep doing your thing.