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Is Void any good? I used it in 2021, but Loonix with my old 1060 was a soykafshow. I got a 9070XT last year, and I've been running Arch since. I guess I'm bored enough to distro hop at this point. PS - Why do people say it's BSD-like in ideology?

Ignoring the distro politics stuff it's pretty good. Fast. Some packages are a bit out of date compared to arch and gentoo, but it's more stable than arch, and doesn't need updated constantly like gentoo. (to prevent breaking) Also, no systemd is always good. (Though I would have preferred openrc over runit)

>>93190 > and doesn't need updated constantly like gentoo. (to prevent breaking) Is this common with Gentoo? I think I didn't update @world for the first 2 months, only installed new kernels and new packages periodically. Then when I decided to properly update @world, there was a global migration to new python version and a lot of packages in Gentoo depend on its python package, so I needed to do some research how to do it properly. But I wouldn't call that breaking and I think some extra work for this would happen no matter how often you update.

>>93191 2 months is risky. The gentoo devs recommend at least weekly. There are ways around it, I guess, like stripping back to a more base system, updating libraries that kind of thing, but it's still something you need to be mindful of.

you absolutely do not need to regularly update gentoo or other source based distros, at least if you are not regularly installing new software or updating individual packages. Many people worry about security and may want to update regularly, in which case sure, you need to do a lot of rebuilding. But if things are working now, the main thing that will stop them from working is if you partially update the system. Delaying updates means of course that your eventual update will become a more major project, but generally speaking the worst it can get is that it is as much trouble as reinstalling the full system, which is not that odious. The sum of such delayed updates is much less work for the administrator, and much less possible system down time. t. long time user of source based distros.

>>93196 as a fellow gentoo user, i will advise you monitor the security updates for your networking software in particular, and security patches generally. do a big update occasionally, or just a little piecemeal patching occasionally. if you want to sync portage without comitting to a whole update, keep yourself a copy of old ebuilds and source files lying around incase they roll out of view. big updates can break soykaf, so commit to taking the time. keep working packages (binary builds for convenience) lying around is a handy way to maintain flexibility when soykaf just breaks for no discernable reason. in the end, best practise dictates you be aware of the tradeoffs, not that you pursue the hemoraging edge religiously.

>>93192 oops. reminded me i haven't updated my void in forever

>>93126 Been on void since 2019 and is good soykaf, runit is nice and easy to configure, use rc.local and rc.conf like the good larper you are, and xbps is imo the most sensible pkg manager i found after distrohopping for too long. Of course the repos are smaller than AUR but if you are going the void route just compile soykaf and shut up. Only two issue i had was setting max_map_count to try Deadlock when it came out, something you can change with sysctl, and setting up unprivileged LXC, even following the official docs, guess they aren't up to date.

>>93196 You do if you don't want things to break. Yes, normal users install packages. Shocker I know, but even on a more slim install you're still going to have issues if you don't update regularly. The devs literally state this, and having to reinstall the full system is not 'normal'. Go do a normal desktop installation with steam, video/audio players, and other software, don't update for 2 months come back here and tell me your experience.

>>93202 > Go do a normal desktop installation with steam, video/audio players, and other software, don't update for 2 months come back here and tell me your experience. That's basically my case I described in >>93191, the trick though is that I use binpkgs (including kernel), and steam/video/audio players are flatpaks. So it might be a bit unusual for Gentoo.

Void is probably the distro I've used for the longest time before going to Debian. It was pretty good in 2023, I liked how small and fast it was, most of the things I wanted were packaged and it was easy to get the deps I needed to compile stuff from source. I'm honestly thinking of going back to it, Debian has become a pain recently. >PS - Why do people say it's BSD-like in ideology? I don't know, I've seen people say that too. Void is definitely a unique distro with a unique approach. I have not used any of the BSDs, but there's a lot of editing scripts, plaintext files, symlinks, stuff like that on Void, more than memorizing commands. Runit is stupidly simple because of that.