hosaka

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.

Didn't have any issues installing the Nvidia driver and using Steam from flatpak.

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.

I'm in exactly tha same boat, but with 16 years of exp. I've considered investing into aviation school, but realistically it takes a couple of years and then a few more before you start earning well.