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Interesting distro to try, or to try again
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Void is one I’ve often thought I’d like to try if I had time to dig into it.
Hey, I used Void and had a great time with it, I loved the speed of xbps and acter I got used to it, the minimal nature of runit felt lile a breath of fresh air (which feels weird in retrospect, as I've never had any issues with systemd). The only problem I had (other than getting used to xbps and runit) was pipewire. As I was using a tiling WM, I couldn't figure out what was happening and why, but I was having serious issues with pipewire and wireplumber not working, until through trial and error I finally managed to fix it but by then I was already set on moving to Fedora (again). That was in April btw.
TLDR: I'd recommend it. XBPS and Runit are new (and pretty good) and take a bit to get used to, but the thing that drove me away was pipewire issues.
Does runit have the equivalent of
systemctl --user
for managing per-user daemons like pipewire? I had some issues with pipewire recently and being able tojournalctl --user -u pipewire
andsystemctl --user restart pipewire
was a total godsend for me.https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/services/user-services.html