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Has anyone used Void Linux? What was your experience? (piefed.ca)

submitted 2 days ago by ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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Just learned about it recently. It has received a lot of praise as a rolling release distro. Also it uses runit instead of systemd.

It has been praised also for being more stable and better designed than Arch.

And I wonder how it compares to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed,

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[–] hosaka@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Been using Void for a while now, at home and at work, about 4 installs in total.

I have my own packages repo which follows the official void-packages closely where I keep my custom templates, they get built by CI and signed, so on my void machines I simply add my repo to xbps config and get all my junk. Here's the repo: https://code.hosaka.cc/hosaka/vast-packages

In addition, I rsync the official repo to mirror it on my server that syncs every few hours and my custom packages are build against that (see the CI workflow in the repo). This also has a benefit of being able to update the packages on my machines from my own mirror at much faster speeds.

It took me a while to get things setup this way, but was worth it in the end.

[–] F04118F@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Besides speed, why would I want my own package repo?

What are your "custom templates" and "all my junk"?

[–] hosaka@programming.dev 3 points 11 hours ago

Packages that cannot be accepted upstream: themes, icons, fonts, packages that are "too new" (think Zig 0.16 for example), anything that packages binary blobs, anything that maintainers refuse to accept like Brave browser, or even your own tools.

Just off the top of my head. The reason I started that repo in the first place was to get a Noctalia package that I can install across multiple machines.