@@Zero-oq1jk no I just get bored of what de or wm I use so every month I install a new void installation followed by a wm or de and etc ... . I tried 10 wms
void is actually life changing. Its a blank slate distro but its extremely easy to use. Highly stable + all the packages I want + low level, simple control over services.
perfect on all hardwares, especially the shite shite ones; atom pc, with soldered 32gb of rom, 2 gb of ram (oldered as well, 1.8 usable) and i stil use void xfce, like a champ 😀
I've been using Void for about a year now, and I really like it. It really does tread the fine line between stability and a rolling release. It also cured me of 10+ years of distro-hopping!
I've been a habitual distro hopper, though with most of my time on Arch based distros in the last several years. Then, about a year and a half ago I found VOID. It lives on my primary desktop (for work and personal items) and I have no desire to switch. Rock solid. Yes, it's a chore to get it setup properly but after an afternoon of that, you'll have the best Linus system I've ever found since 1996.
I have been using it for 3 years now. I am a regular linux user. I started using it in 1998 (Slackware). I have used Debian for decades. And now...VOID. I am a full stack web developer and in 3 years not a single problem. The system NEVER BREAKS and I sometimes push things to the limit (I use xdeb to convert debian packages to xbps package and this sometimes can break the userspace). Fully satisfied and I think I will never quit using it.
G'day everyone! Thanks to DT for the video about such a wig distro as Void Linux. A unique distro it appears to be. Only after I tried Arch did I realize how fast a modern OS can really be. Void seems to be a more stable option (it would be cap not to admit Arch broke in few months). It is a highly based distro for those who have reached tranquility of mind, periodt. P.S. I know it's a weird comment, I just had a task in an online English school to comment my fav youtuber's video applying new grammar and slang vocab c:
wow this amuses me, not in a bad way, your english is remarkably good, just the online english school telling you to make a youtube comment is hilarious! Keep at it! your already amazing!
Great review as always! Love watching your videos! I put Void Linux on my (at least) 10 year old laptop and I'm amazed how fast and smooth it runs and how simple it is to configure, especially the services. Void Linux is giving me some BSD vibes! I always like watching your videos and reviews and learned a lot about Linux. Thank you! Keep up the great work! Greetings from Germany!
I was on Void for about a year but a couple of months ago I installed Debian-testing onto my pc because I wanted more package availability that was still fairly upto-date and I miss Void already, such a brilliant, lightweight distro, rock solid, didn't have any problems at all over the year I used it.
so glad I read comments while listening to the first few minutes. The guy could have just read this comment verbatim and I would got better understanding of void Linux
Do you have some kernel configuration documentation by the way? I mean Gentoo is great and all, but the menuconfig help entries are often quite useless.
@@callisoncaffreyYes, I do. I have a private Git repository for sync-ing dotfiles, I haven't got any public ones yet - but I might be able to do something on that. I do have kernel configs for pretty much every Intel 32 and 64 bit architecture between Pentium III and Intel Core i series.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 That's not what I asked though. I did that once, trusting someone with the config they gave me. Ended with me being banned and then having to write a bug report on their shit, because the issue wasn't my kernel config but missing shebangs in their packages. They are all bassoons (translate it from German) over there too. "I rather have bad code than impolite coders" is the sentence that I will never forget. Anyway, documentation is what I asked for, not finished .config files.
I always order my partitions from largest to smallest on a drive to give more flexibility later and it's helped me many times. The idea is that your big partition which may be /home or a data partition has data you're more likely to want to keep between installs and it's quicker and easier to resize or change any partition after it and if you do resize the bigger one, you dont have to shift its start, a slower and more taxing operation.
I installed Void Linux in a VM a long time ago, and I was blown away by how simple, light and fast it was in a crap laptop... inside a VM. Even today, is my main distro.
Hey DT, there's only a XFCE Void ISO for a DE. You might have been confused with another runit distro which had a few other DE config ISOs. Cheers. Unless the "unofficial" ones.
Considering how many linux distros are now out there it's understandable that you miss some of them. In my case I miss a lot of them. I just limit my use to three, Debian, Fedora and btw I also use Arch
I installed Void in October 2023; came from Fedora KDE Spin. Been loving it ever since! It's much faster, and I like the minimalism influence of the developers' past BSD experience.
Void is awesome. I still love to distro hop lol. Especially right now with my thinkpad p1 gen 2 with quadro t2000. I might give it a try again. I used to know runit well but I've been slacking life gets in the way too. Great video.
Using Void on an SSD USB disk since a month and I'm impress. I like it very much. I have installed a based void system and added wayland and Wayfire as Wm. It's all based on recent packages with the most recent kernel. It's been very stable and flawless. Void documentation is quite good and the community is more friendly than Arch ;=). I will keep it for a while to see how it goes. Cudo to the Void teams for their excellent work. +1
Great peak into Void. Careful on the FUD regarding old iso's - I still install CentOS 7.6 on every server that I build. I then update the LIBC and Kernel manually. But, the installs do still work - even on the latest Milan and Bergamo Epyc CPUs.
While I don't generally care about init systems, and I am currently on a systemd distro, it has been quite nice mixing things up with runit, and it is generally a very simple init system to use, even if you're familiar with systemd.
I have been on Arch for about a decade, and don't really have any incentive to make any changes to my daily driver, but Void is definitely a distro that I have been interested in. I have been tinkering with it in a VM for a bit, and it does seem very solid, I believe that I would already consider it my "second favorite" distro. I know that systemd is controversial (with merit), but I personally don't take issue with it, so the "no systemd" on its own isn't enough of a factor to make me switch. I opted for the musl variant, and it is interested using a distro without systemd and GNU tooling, and learning the various alternatives.
i also tried void linux few days ago, dual boot with Windows 7 in 32 bit 1 Gb CPU. although it looks like a minimalist distro but it runs slighly slower than what i experienced in MX Linux and AntiX. the installation was a bit hard because it's quite manual (especially in harddrive partition part). i did recorded my experience in my channel.
hey DT! i saw an ad about the smallest operating system thats only 1.44Mb and has a full fledged gui and apps and games. its called kolibri os. i dont think its linux. could you do a vm and review on this 1? the thing that puzzles me is how do they manage to crunch so much stuff in just 1.44mb. the lightest linux today is a net install iso of minimum 700mb.
I recall Bodhi Linux used about 100MB less RAM than this version of Linux. You mentioned this Void install was about as small as you'll get for a GUI GNU Linux distro. It would be interesting to know what is making Bodhi so much more RAM efficient and what Void provides that Bodhi can't do. I like Bodhi for running apps in VMs on Windows due to the low RAM usage. One downside is the disk space seems bloated. An interesting video would be showing how to minimize Bodhi's disk space for those wanting low resource Linux VMs on older notebooks.
@@tylerdean980 Yea I tried BusyBox and Alpine distros but Bodhi was just so much more responsive and everything I tried installed. That MUSL sounds interesting. Thanks.
Thanks. I don’t know why I keep looking a distros as I am not a hopper. Learning to make the one I use work for me and leave the distro hopping to the time on their hands intrepids.
I've used void for over 6 months and i think it's a great distro. I even made a few package templates for myself to use with xbps-src (template is similar to a pkgbuild on arch). I decided to move away from it because i ended up wanting some more up to date software, and i also couldn't boot the latest kernel version for some reason that i wanted to use because it fixed some issues with my gpu. I tried opensuse tumbleweed first but grew tired of it after a week. Now i'm on nixos and i think it's here to stay. Really liking it so far. Just took a while to configure everything since it does have a learning curve.
I tested this in VMWare Workstation 15 Pro, with the no desktop variant and setting up LXDM and i3 to my liking for the first time. XBPS is pretty dang fast, faster than Apt minus my VM's slower NAT connection. The ONLY hiccup I had was the keyboard layout changing back on me, so I added setxkb to i3's startup. The moment I can send my laptop to a repair shop, I'm installing this the same way, with more stuff such as my GPU driver.
what i love about void linux is it's simplicity and snappiness. never have i seen any other linux distro yet that mimics the same snappy behavior of void linux. it's desktop/windows/mouse rendering are somehow vsynced out of the box. it's very noticeable esp at high refresh rates. window dragging, even dragging a browser playing 4k60 youtube video is very smooth and does not show any screen tearing... that and with minimal memory and cpu utilization makes me like this OS more.. even more than windows.
Void user here. Some things I want to mention about the video: They only have 1 desktop it's xfce, I use river btw. It should not be installed with the installer, that's buggy... unless they fixed it now. It's better to install xchroot advanced install. About the old ISOs, you can install old isos and just update the system. I've done it several times without problems. One of the main sellling points about void is start up time, not mentioned in the video. My personal take - most packages are available by default while on Arch you have to do the AUR. Runit is much simpler to use that systemd. Most services are a 1 line long script, 5 if you count the blank lines and boilerplate.
Only problem with void linux is repository is small. Also, repository doesn't have older version of packages. Otherwise perfect light non systemd distro
@@littlepeon I wanted mutable and immutable at same time like vanilla os but instead of container, like to use nix as native package solution, this combo with clear linux optimisation
Hello. Could you make a video about Vojtux? I have a couple of friends who are completely blind. And Windows is not a very good system for them. But due to the complexity of the installation, I don't understand how to install Vojtux correctly. It would be great to know how to do this and set it up
I'm good with Zorin 17.1 Pro, _but, that said..._ it's still fascinating to me to watch footage of other distros, just to keep aware of what else is out there.
gave void a try; actually pretty cool, could have IMHO the potential to become an alternative to the ubuntu-based linux-mint, IF they bring a graphical installer and application-management. (also some sort of supporting other packages - eg i enjoy working with freeoffice, didn't find a way to get THAT installed... (i'm no expert, actually don't want to become one thus me not having many alternatives to linux mint))
Yay! Hurray. I was interested in Void lately because it seems to be better then anything out there for me. It's unique features approach and quality. And even check out your older Void videos which like yesterday or so. Now lets see the video :)
Void is the distro that succeeded in taking me away from Arch Linux after using it for years, haven't looked back in 3 years. I'm here typing in Void on my machine at work, and also use it on 3 machines at home, and one of them runs AAA games like a beast.
As I found Openbox by your recommendation. But interested only by future, not X11. LabWC seems as great wayland replacement for Openbox. I would love to see more videos on Void with LabWC. Void will be my first Linux ever! I would love to go with musl but it may be too far. I don't know.
MUSL is better if you have a more limited use case, many things expect GlibC, like steam, for example. Try it in a VM and see if all the software that you use works fine with MUSL if you're seriously considering it.
@@tylerdean980 I do not game at all. But Davinci Resolve and other high pro tools are what interest me. What about install with musl and when program needed. Only then load glib dependencies?
Chicago Time Zone, Chicago mirror. Is there anyone who still believes that DT isn’t in Chicago? If you have to say that often that you aren’t in Chicago, you probably are.
Man who develop this distro left project...cus he got personality issue thx others maintain this great distro now Great distro / runit is much much better and simpler than systemd/ great building tools /independant distro/ stable roling
here's a sample video to show how solidly fluid window refresh is oobe in void linux. it rivals mac osx. no other linux distro comes close to this fluidity, esp with minimal cpu utilization - ruclips.net/video/H0XfjmnpGpA/видео.html
To maintain no, Just to configure if you install the base version. Void is pretty stable, XBPS is atomic, that is If a operation on pkg fail its not applied.
Distro seems a little lacking in _substance_ if you catch my drift... But in case it becomes very elite and high-status, I will use it, or at least tell people on the internet I do, for the social prestige. 👍
This post may piss a few people off, but there's no such thing as a stable rolling release because it's a moving target, and from time to time you'll miss your target.
The second most annoying distro after Arch. I won't bother with distros that don't give you a choice in how you choose to install it: The easy way and the hard way i.e. custom install. Void can't even do a guided partition you yourself HAVE to do it and this is important Void is not about choice, they force you to do the installation like it is 1993..
true, that's some 101-stuff. then again, no graphical installer, no graphical application-management - it actually seems not to be meant for "normal users" but more for "advanced levels"... (sadly enough. with auto-install, both graphical installer and appl.management, void does have the capability to be an alternative for linux mint, since - like another poster wrote: "void is what elementary wants to be" - which is absolutly true)
@@michaelkeller5008 Yep, worst part is that it is the devs that make it that way by making something unnecessary "hard" to install to feel like they are advanced users, in reality they are only complicating things.
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"It's not based on Arch or Debian, it's just based" -- Mental Outlaw commenting on Void
Void is the distro that cured my distro hopping.
Same here I install void every month 😂 . Im installing it today on my main desktop
Yes, Void is a base distro.
@@AL-Hanafi1 It brakes every month? ;)
@@Zero-oq1jk no I just get bored of what de or wm I use so every month I install a new void installation followed by a wm or de and etc ... . I tried 10 wms
@@AL-Hanafi1this require reinstallation of void itself?
void is actually life changing. Its a blank slate distro but its extremely easy to use. Highly stable + all the packages I want + low level, simple control over services.
Been on Void for years now. Perfect lightweight, rolling distro with BSD feels.
perfect on all hardwares, especially the shite shite ones; atom pc, with soldered 32gb of rom, 2 gb of ram (oldered as well, 1.8 usable) and i stil use void xfce, like a champ 😀
I've been using Void for about a year now, and I really like it. It really does tread the fine line between stability and a rolling release. It also cured me of 10+ years of distro-hopping!
same lol i don't feel the itch of distro hopping anymore
probably since most other distros have systemd
@@TerminalAddict What's the deal with systemd anyways?
Void is stable!
It installs successfully and updates without issues from a more than one year old iso.
I've been a habitual distro hopper, though with most of my time on Arch based distros in the last several years. Then, about a year and a half ago I found VOID. It lives on my primary desktop (for work and personal items) and I have no desire to switch. Rock solid. Yes, it's a chore to get it setup properly but after an afternoon of that, you'll have the best Linus system I've ever found since 1996.
1 core ? 2 threads ? 358 MB ? no problem, linux always amazes me
I have been using it for 3 years now.
I am a regular linux user.
I started using it in 1998 (Slackware).
I have used Debian for decades.
And now...VOID.
I am a full stack web developer and in 3 years not a single problem. The system NEVER BREAKS and I sometimes push things to the limit (I use xdeb to convert debian packages to xbps package and this sometimes can break the userspace).
Fully satisfied and I think I will never quit using it.
Hows it going?
G'day everyone! Thanks to DT for the video about such a wig distro as Void Linux. A unique distro it appears to be. Only after I tried Arch did I realize how fast a modern OS can really be. Void seems to be a more stable option (it would be cap not to admit Arch broke in few months). It is a highly based distro for those who have reached tranquility of mind, periodt.
P.S. I know it's a weird comment, I just had a task in an online English school to comment my fav youtuber's video applying new grammar and slang vocab c:
wow this amuses me, not in a bad way, your english is remarkably good, just the online english school telling you to make a youtube comment is hilarious!
Keep at it! your already amazing!
@@anonymoususerinterface Thanks for your kindness! :)
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Great review as always! Love watching your videos! I put Void Linux on my (at least) 10 year old laptop and I'm amazed how fast and smooth it runs and how simple it is to configure, especially the services. Void Linux is giving me some BSD vibes! I always like watching your videos and reviews and learned a lot about Linux. Thank you! Keep up the great work! Greetings from Germany!
I was on Void for about a year but a couple of months ago I installed Debian-testing onto my pc because I wanted more package availability that was still fairly upto-date and I miss Void already, such a brilliant, lightweight distro, rock solid, didn't have any problems at all over the year I used it.
I am blown away by how easy Void Linux is to use, even if you've never used Ubuntu or Arch!
No, no, no. DT is wrong. Void don't have to update their isos as they work even when they are older. It's not like Arch, it doesn't break.
so glad I read comments while listening to the first few minutes. The guy could have just read this comment verbatim and I would got better understanding of void Linux
Void is my favorite because it’s more Unix like and my favorite operating system is openBSD so when I use Linux I use void.
If I had not had Gentoo to use for the past 21 years, Void would be what I was using today.
Do you have some kernel configuration documentation by the way? I mean Gentoo is great and all, but the menuconfig help entries are often quite useless.
@@callisoncaffreyYes, I do. I have a private Git repository for sync-ing dotfiles, I haven't got any public ones yet - but I might be able to do something on that.
I do have kernel configs for pretty much every Intel 32 and 64 bit architecture between Pentium III and Intel Core i series.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 That's not what I asked though.
I did that once, trusting someone with the config they gave me. Ended with me being banned and then having to write a bug report on their shit, because the issue wasn't my kernel config but missing shebangs in their packages. They are all bassoons (translate it from German) over there too. "I rather have bad code than impolite coders" is the sentence that I will never forget.
Anyway, documentation is what I asked for, not finished .config files.
Garuda linux is the best for my me for the latest 11 years... But wanted to try Void anyway.
PS: HaikuOS is also nice to try OS
@@callisoncaffreymake your own
I always order my partitions from largest to smallest on a drive to give more flexibility later and it's helped me many times. The idea is that your big partition which may be /home or a data partition has data you're more likely to want to keep between installs and it's quicker and easier to resize or change any partition after it and if you do resize the bigger one, you dont have to shift its start, a slower and more taxing operation.
Void is the best distro I've ever used.
I installed Void Linux in a VM a long time ago, and I was blown away by how simple, light and fast it was in a crap laptop... inside a VM. Even today, is my main distro.
Hey DT, there's only a XFCE Void ISO for a DE. You might have been confused with another runit distro which had a few other DE config ISOs. Cheers. Unless the "unofficial" ones.
i didnt know void linux existed
Considering how many linux distros are now out there it's understandable that you miss some of them. In my case I miss a lot of them. I just limit my use to three, Debian, Fedora and btw I also use Arch
I installed Void in October 2023; came from Fedora KDE Spin. Been loving it ever since! It's much faster, and I like the minimalism influence of the developers' past BSD experience.
Great video, I am interested in Void.🙂 Seems perfect for FreeBSD fans who are looking to get into Linux.
I just installed void today on an amd sempron 145. Work like charm.
Void is awesome. I still love to distro hop lol. Especially right now with my thinkpad p1 gen 2 with quadro t2000. I might give it a try again. I used to know runit well but I've been slacking life gets in the way too. Great video.
Void Linux is my forever distro. Just so amazing. I don't want it advertised. Never want it to change.
Gatekeeping protects your interests
My fav Linux distribution ❤ super lightweight 🥰
😅 I named my user login session “extern C void username”
Using Void on an SSD USB disk since a month and I'm impress. I like it very much. I have installed a based void system and added wayland and Wayfire as Wm. It's all based on recent packages with the most recent kernel. It's been very stable and flawless. Void documentation is quite good and the community is more friendly than Arch ;=). I will keep it for a while to see how it goes. Cudo to the Void teams for their excellent work. +1
I'm definitely going to look into the void!
Great peak into Void. Careful on the FUD regarding old iso's - I still install CentOS 7.6 on every server that I build. I then update the LIBC and Kernel manually. But, the installs do still work - even on the latest Milan and Bergamo Epyc CPUs.
Amazing video, such a pleasure to watch this distro gem, thanks
Back in the day? Slackware is still using that install interface.
Crustiest distro so it makes sense
While I don't generally care about init systems, and I am currently on a systemd distro, it has been quite nice mixing things up with runit, and it is generally a very simple init system to use, even if you're familiar with systemd.
what a particular little os... i really like the concept a lot
wish there had been more technical deep dive on runit vs systemd
Void boots fast and runs fast even on a Raspberry PI Zero.
Used to bounce around distros, now I just use Void.
My preferred linux distro. Simple, efficient, robust. Works great with low-resource computers.
Thank you for giving a respectable void review
Void is a really good distro. It's my distro of choice for my workstation whilst Ubuntu/Debian/Armbian and Alpine are my choice for servers.
I have been on Arch for about a decade, and don't really have any incentive to make any changes to my daily driver, but Void is definitely a distro that I have been interested in. I have been tinkering with it in a VM for a bit, and it does seem very solid, I believe that I would already consider it my "second favorite" distro. I know that systemd is controversial (with merit), but I personally don't take issue with it, so the "no systemd" on its own isn't enough of a factor to make me switch. I opted for the musl variant, and it is interested using a distro without systemd and GNU tooling, and learning the various alternatives.
void is really cool, i'd probably want to run a home server on it or something since it has such a small footprint
Been considering setting up void gentoo or bsd to play with and think im sold on void
i did not expect you to be from louisiana! I'm from there too ;p
I'm using root-on-zfs and zfs raid1 on void, and void linux is very stable rolling release distro.
i also tried void linux few days ago, dual boot with Windows 7 in 32 bit 1 Gb CPU. although it looks like a minimalist distro but it runs slighly slower than what i experienced in MX Linux and AntiX. the installation was a bit hard because it's quite manual (especially in harddrive partition part). i did recorded my experience in my channel.
hey DT! i saw an ad about the smallest operating system thats only 1.44Mb and has a full fledged gui and apps and games. its called kolibri os. i dont think its linux. could you do a vm and review on this 1? the thing that puzzles me is how do they manage to crunch so much stuff in just 1.44mb. the lightest linux today is a net install iso of minimum 700mb.
Discovered Void linux on my 2nd month of linux journey. So far, this distro is the best I've tried.
Cool video 😎
I knew it exists, but I haven't used Void before. Looks pretty lightweight. Great work, DT!
One exception of distribution which provides new kernels while being a stable distribution: Fedora
I recall Bodhi Linux used about 100MB less RAM than this version of Linux. You mentioned this Void install was about as small as you'll get for a GUI GNU Linux distro. It would be interesting to know what is making Bodhi so much more RAM efficient and what Void provides that Bodhi can't do. I like Bodhi for running apps in VMs on Windows due to the low RAM usage. One downside is the disk space seems bloated. An interesting video would be showing how to minimize Bodhi's disk space for those wanting low resource Linux VMs on older notebooks.
If you use the MUSL version it's even lighter, they also offer a version with BusyBox which is even lighter, gets into alpine territory
@@tylerdean980 Yea I tried BusyBox and Alpine distros but Bodhi was just so much more responsive and everything I tried installed. That MUSL sounds interesting. Thanks.
A clean boot without opening anything does get you 250 mb with xfce.
@@dadudeme Interesting that is definitely in the Bodhi RAM consumption from when I was tracking distros a couple years ago.
Bodhi is not rolling. Sooner or later you will have to update it manually. Void + LXDE is very lightweight DE.
Distro I've been using for the last few years. Just a few tinkering to get ready for gaming.
I installed Void Linux under Proxmox8 and updated it until it wouldn't update anymore. Now I call it Devoid.
Thanks. I don’t know why I keep looking a distros as I am not a hopper. Learning to make the one I use work for me and leave the distro hopping to the time on their hands intrepids.
I've used void for over 6 months and i think it's a great distro. I even made a few package templates for myself to use with xbps-src (template is similar to a pkgbuild on arch). I decided to move away from it because i ended up wanting some more up to date software, and i also couldn't boot the latest kernel version for some reason that i wanted to use because it fixed some issues with my gpu. I tried opensuse tumbleweed first but grew tired of it after a week. Now i'm on nixos and i think it's here to stay. Really liking it so far. Just took a while to configure everything since it does have a learning curve.
Is it recommended as a light distro for old laptop? (32 bits)
I tested this in VMWare Workstation 15 Pro, with the no desktop variant and setting up LXDM and i3 to my liking for the first time. XBPS is pretty dang fast, faster than Apt minus my VM's slower NAT connection. The ONLY hiccup I had was the keyboard layout changing back on me, so I added setxkb to i3's startup. The moment I can send my laptop to a repair shop, I'm installing this the same way, with more stuff such as my GPU driver.
what i love about void linux is it's simplicity and snappiness. never have i seen any other linux distro yet that mimics the same snappy behavior of void linux. it's desktop/windows/mouse rendering are somehow vsynced out of the box. it's very noticeable esp at high refresh rates. window dragging, even dragging a browser playing 4k60 youtube video is very smooth and does not show any screen tearing... that and with minimal memory and cpu utilization makes me like this OS more.. even more than windows.
Void user here. Some things I want to mention about the video: They only have 1 desktop it's xfce, I use river btw. It should not be installed with the installer, that's buggy... unless they fixed it now. It's better to install xchroot advanced install. About the old ISOs, you can install old isos and just update the system. I've done it several times without problems. One of the main sellling points about void is start up time, not mentioned in the video. My personal take - most packages are available by default while on Arch you have to do the AUR. Runit is much simpler to use that systemd. Most services are a 1 line long script, 5 if you count the blank lines and boilerplate.
7:47 -- An improvement to the installer could be to auto-detect the swap partition (if ti was already defined).
Void is awesome. Been using it for years with BSPWM. Very stable rolling distro. Very lightweight.
Only problem with void linux is repository is small. Also, repository doesn't have older version of packages. Otherwise perfect light non systemd distro
Just use nix for packages
The reason it's called Void is because it's void of all software support
@yukendhiran8043 yeah, I did that, then one day, I skipped the middleman and just installed NixOS instead. Didn't look back ever.
Both are good. @@littlepeon
@@littlepeon I wanted mutable and immutable at same time like vanilla os but instead of container, like to use nix as native package solution, this combo with clear linux optimisation
does installing void linux on a usb erases the usb data? Is it like archlinux?
I installed it a while back on a lenovo laptop but whenever i tried to shutdown the machine it would restart instead
Hello.
Could you make a video about Vojtux?
I have a couple of friends who are completely blind. And Windows is not a very good system for them. But due to the complexity of the installation, I don't understand how to install Vojtux correctly.
It would be great to know how to do this and set it up
I'm good with Zorin 17.1 Pro, _but, that said..._ it's still fascinating to me to watch footage of other distros, just to keep aware of what else is out there.
gave void a try; actually pretty cool, could have IMHO the potential to become an alternative to the ubuntu-based linux-mint, IF they bring a graphical installer and application-management. (also some sort of supporting other packages - eg i enjoy working with freeoffice, didn't find a way to get THAT installed... (i'm no expert, actually don't want to become one thus me not having many alternatives to linux mint))
Derek, if you don't create a boot partition, where does GRUB get installed? On the main partition?
GRUB gets installed to the MBR. You only have to have a dedicated boot partition if you are doing encryption or using UEFI
i like void but i never found a way to get audio to really work
Sounding good, and here's wising you happy days.
Can't wait for distros to target podman as the primary way to install/test... Everyone seems to test distros in a hardware vm like qemu.
Yay! Hurray. I was interested in Void lately because it seems to be better then anything out there for me. It's unique features approach and quality. And even check out your older Void videos which like yesterday or so. Now lets see the video :)
"Strong and complicated password"
I've been a Void user for the past 3 years, but I'm switching to Arch soon!
Void Linux marches to the beat of its own frying pan
Is gaming on void worse than on arch?
I know geometry dash is compatible with mods so at least gd
I think that the strong and complicated password was leaked
Void is the distro that succeeded in taking me away from Arch Linux after using it for years, haven't looked back in 3 years. I'm here typing in Void on my machine at work, and also use it on 3 machines at home, and one of them runs AAA games like a beast.
Void is what elementary wants to be.
As I found Openbox by your recommendation. But interested only by future, not X11. LabWC seems as great wayland replacement for Openbox. I would love to see more videos on Void with LabWC. Void will be my first Linux ever! I would love to go with musl but it may be too far. I don't know.
MUSL is better if you have a more limited use case, many things expect GlibC, like steam, for example. Try it in a VM and see if all the software that you use works fine with MUSL if you're seriously considering it.
@@tylerdean980 I do not game at all. But Davinci Resolve and other high pro tools are what interest me. What about install with musl and when program needed. Only then load glib dependencies?
@@Zero-oq1jk probably better off using flatpak in that scenario
i love void and void need more love from ppl
Chicago Time Zone, Chicago mirror. Is there anyone who still believes that DT isn’t in Chicago? If you have to say that often that you aren’t in Chicago, you probably are.
Man who develop this distro left project...cus he got personality issue thx others maintain this great distro now
Great distro / runit is much much better and simpler than systemd/ great building tools /independant distro/ stable roling
6:43 "let's create a strong and complicated password" you always repeat that in all your vídeos 😅😅
@n0tjak Really?
@n0tjak So when he says "let's create a strong and complicated password" it's a joke right? 😅😅
@n0tjak Never I think 😅😂
I believe it is "td" so nothing complains its the same as the username
@@DominikZogg Yes.
here's a sample video to show how solidly fluid window refresh is oobe in void linux. it rivals mac osx. no other linux distro comes close to this fluidity, esp with minimal cpu utilization - ruclips.net/video/H0XfjmnpGpA/видео.html
I've always been interested in void, but it seems like it would be just a bit too much work to maintain
To maintain no, Just to configure if you install the base version. Void is pretty stable, XBPS is atomic, that is If a operation on pkg fail its not applied.
I love void but I missed opensuse so after 2 years of void usage I went back to suse
I thought that runit was supposed to be pronounced R-Unit...
i prefere chimera linux with dinit instead systemd
The beard made you look youthful
I actually don't understand void under the hood been wondering. *Derek and this Derek too busy trading but still in sync as always.*
Distro seems a little lacking in _substance_ if you catch my drift... But in case it becomes very elite and high-status, I will use it, or at least tell people on the internet I do, for the social prestige. 👍
You sound stupid
This post may piss a few people off, but there's no such thing as a stable rolling release because it's a moving target, and from time to time you'll miss your target.
I wish this video would not be the FIRST VIDEO of a new user who is thinking to migrate from Windows to Linux. Otherwise... 🙄
Is it bad that my computer only has 512mb ram?
Debian is now woke. I am looking for an alternative. Is Void woke?
I don't know, this distro seems a little _empty_
dtOS void version
It's a good distro, but I find the documentation to be pretty obtuse and full of word salad. It often only makes if you already know what to do.
The second most annoying distro after Arch. I won't bother with distros that don't give you a choice in how you choose to install it: The easy way and the hard way i.e. custom install. Void can't even do a guided partition you yourself HAVE to do it and this is important Void is not about choice, they force you to do the installation like it is 1993..
maybe youre just a normie
true, that's some 101-stuff. then again, no graphical installer, no graphical application-management - it actually seems not to be meant for "normal users" but more for "advanced levels"...
(sadly enough. with auto-install, both graphical installer and appl.management, void does have the capability to be an alternative for linux mint, since - like another poster wrote: "void is what elementary wants to be" - which is absolutly true)
@@michaelkeller5008 Yep, worst part is that it is the devs that make it that way by making something unnecessary "hard" to install to feel like they are advanced users, in reality they are only complicating things.
@@PixelBoar absolutly!
im on Manjaro now and it is going well