Void guide

A little while back I switched from arch to void because I wanted a systemd-less distro, I wanted to use something a bit closer to old school unix after playing around with BSD a lot more, and a few peeps I know use void.

Check out the void handbook and this epic blog post (:

I decided to go with the glibc version of void. For the installer I use the base image. While I do use xfce anyways the xfce iso also installs network manager which I dont use or even want on my system. Want me to walk you through it? Just read the docs you lazy fuck!

Many say the handbook is very lacking and compared to arch it is but a giant wiki isnt what the void handbook is or tries to be. The void handbook is great for casually reading through and has many helpful resources and if you need more depth search for it on the arch wiki :D

Some useful things:

• socklog for logs (highly recommend for those who do a lot of debugging).
• ignoring packages so you can replace sudo with doas.
• wpa supplicant for wifi.
• swap out acpid with elogind because it seems to work better with xfce.
• pipewire for audio (laptops often need sof-firmware for the speakers).
• fonts so your fonts don't look like trash.
• Interesting.
• Source packages in void.

On void some laptops will not save their previous brightness after boot. To fix that first install brillo(1).

To save the brightness on shutdown open /etc/rc.shutdown and add brillo -O

Next open /etc/rc.local and add brillo -I to restore the brightness on startup

Like most small distros that arent forks, void linux doesnt have a whole lot of packages in its repos. It still has most of the packages you will ever need but for times when it doesnt making xbps packages is quite easy. Who needs stuppa flatpaks and snaps when you can make your own packages and share them? Thats the whole point of free and open source! I encourage this for all linux users! You can find some void packages I made on my git.

A lot can change depending on many things and everything I say has only been tested on my machine. Check out void nvidia docs.