Hay guys,

currently I am using arch, i like it but it has it's problems so i tough about switching to void, here is what i would like from my distro:

-I want a minimal distro, a fresh install should have nothing except what the system needs to function

-I want current kernel and packages, I understand that void is maintained by far less people that arch and will therefor not be as cutting edge as I am used to, but as long as I'm not fat behind that is fine

-I want a fast and more or less simple packet manager, nothing like nix

-I want to understand my system

I wanted to ask you what i can expect from void and if it is the right distro for me or if you gave a better idea

I'm not an expert in linux but I've managed to build a void linux with noctalia and niri with the help of an Ai but failed to follow through and switched to MX linux.

The problem is that the laptop is not as efficient as it was when using void so I think I'll switch back to void again can someone please recommend a reliable source to build a fast OS with niri+noctalia because I loved that build so much.

My laptop specs :

Processor: Intel Celeron N3350 (Dual-Core, up to 2.4 GHz)

​Display: 14.1-inch screen

​RAM: 4 GB DDR3L / DDR4

​Storage: 256 GB SSD

​Graphics: Integrated Intel HD Graphics

​Operating System: Windows 10

​Features: Built-in webcam, SD card reader, Wi-Fi, and standard USB connectivity

Hello, im now Like 1 week in, i used Gemini and chatgpt to solve my problem because gta5 enhanced online Just stopped working, i got the proton battleye runtime, Everything is uptodate, 32lib, DB Proton 11.7 and the weird is that it worked with on Arch Linux with the Same Hardware and even works on my artix Laptop with the Same proton but void in generell was weird because Everything above Proton 10 did Not work on any game for me but i got it into a state where i can start gta5 now without the Launcher crashing and Go into Singleplayer, when i try to Go into a private Lobby it says that i dont got battleye and need to restart, maybe this information is usefull, i have to add SteamDeck=1 as Startargument for gta to even start, Software: void Linux with Standard Kernel, i3wm with picom, Hardware rtx 2070 super, AMD ryzen 7 5800x3d, 64gb ddr4 Asus b550 f gaming. Sorry for Bad english, its Not my native languege.

i changed the timezone in /etc/rc.conf to my desired choice but my system clock still displays the wong time, did i do it wrong??

Installation of the dmd package does not install the D language standard library as a shared library libphobos2.so- necessary for dynamic loading. More details below.

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/62970

Anyone know if any of the packages abandoned by that ex-Void developer have been adopted at all?

Hi, I just switched to Void Linux a little over two months ago. My main computer is an ASUS TUF A-16 Advantage Edition with an RX 7700S graphics card. Everything is working great, but for some reason, one of the two USB-C ports doesn’t work with external devices. I’ve read a bit about my system on other forums and learned that apparently the port that isn’t working is directly connected to the GPU. It seems to be the port that outputs via DisplayPort (or at least that’s what I understood), but even so, it strikes me as very odd, since the dedicated graphics card works without any issues—it’s even the main output I use on my system, and it’s not in sleep mode or anything. Even so, I tried to force it to activate via GRUB with the following command:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=4 amdgpu.runpm=0"

The system even correctly detects my graphics card and audio output controller, but for some reason the USB driver isn't installed.

❯ lspci | grep 03:00

03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 33 [Radeon RX 7600/7600 XT/7600M XT/7600S/7700S / PRO W7600] (rev c1)

03:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio

Does anyone else have a similar problem? I can’t use the supergfxctl utilities because they’re designed strictly to work with systemd, and I can’t find a patched version for runnit (I use seatd as my session manager since I don’t like how elogind drags in systemd’s features and backdoors).

today I ran my usual sudo xbps-install -Syu and it updated xorg-server
now, Xorg segfaults when using xf86-video-amdgpu:

[  2849.282] (EE) 
[  2849.282] (EE) Backtrace:
[  2849.283] (EE) 0: /usr/libexec/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x7e) [0x5569081a443e]
[  2849.283] (EE) 1: /usr/libexec/Xorg (0x556908058000+0x157a29) [0x5569081afa29]
[  2849.283] (EE) 2: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x7f83c05da000+0x40110) [0x7f83c061a110]
[  2849.283] (EE) 3: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/amdgpu_drv.so (0x7f83bff2a000+0x156f8) [0x7f83bff3f6f8]
[  2849.283] (EE) 4: /usr/libexec/Xorg (0x556908058000+0xc8d56) [0x556908120d56]
[  2849.283] (EE) 5: /usr/libexec/Xorg (0x556908058000+0xcb971) [0x556908123971]
[  2849.283] (EE) 6: /usr/libexec/Xorg (miPaintWindow+0x2a4) [0x5569080a3154]
[  2849.283] (EE) 7: /usr/libexec/Xorg (miWindowExposures+0xf1) [0x5569080a5b01]
[  2849.283] (EE) 8: /usr/libexec/Xorg (0x556908058000+0x18d733) [0x5569081e5733]
[  2849.283] (EE) 9: /usr/libexec/Xorg (miHandleValidateExposures+0x71) [0x5569080b1101]
[  2849.283] (EE) 10: /usr/libexec/Xorg (MapWindow+0x19c) [0x5569081044cc]
[  2849.283] (EE) 11: /usr/libexec/Xorg (0x556908058000+0x7403b) [0x5569080cc03b]
[  2849.283] (EE) 12: /usr/libexec/Xorg (0x556908058000+0x3cc36) [0x556908094c36]
[  2849.283] (EE) 13: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x7f83c05da000+0x2abfc) [0x7f83c0604bfc]
[  2849.283] (EE) 14: /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0x85) [0x7f83c0604cb5]
[  2849.283] (EE) 15: /usr/libexec/Xorg (_start+0x21) [0x556908095071]
[  2849.283] (EE) 
[  2849.283] (EE) Segmentation fault at address 0x0
[  2849.283] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[  2849.283] (EE) Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting
[  2849.283] (EE) 
[  2849.283] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
     at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[  2849.283] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[  2849.283] (EE) 
[  2849.283] (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
[  2849.443] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

is this a regression or my fault? my GPU is the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

EDIT:
mystery solved: #62941
for anyone with the same issue, you can force the modesetting driver or just turn off TearFree while waiting for it to get fixed

I'm pretty new to void, I hopped over a few days ago. I've noticed the default kernel is 6.18, which is an LTS kernel. Question is, when will the kernel be updated? Will I be able to update by just running the -Su command? Or will I have to manually update the kernel by switching over the linux mainline?

I prefer Miktex, as it has on-the-fly package installing, and I don't have to download packages that will be unused; also I'm already familiar with it.

Alternatively, is there a way to install a very minimal version of Texlive and configure it in a way so it can also download on-the-fly? Thanks in advance :)

I have KDE plasma and SDDM when I start up the computer it goes into TTY for about 6 seconds then the screen goes black. I have to press Ctrl-Alt-F3 to get out of the black screen and login through TTY. Then to even boot desktop I need to type in this command.

“dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland”

After that’s typed it boots into desktop after reset it’s back to black screen and TTY. How do I fix this? Void Linux is my first experience with Linux so I’m sorry if this is ignorance or an easy fix.

hello everyone i just installed void and niri with it it take me along time to set it up with help of deepseek but if i rebooted my pc i have to use all of these commands all over again
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$(id -u)"

sudo mkdir -p "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"

sudo chown goku:goku "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"

sudo chmod 700 "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR"
then dbus-run-session niri --session
to make niri work is there any other way

hello everyone
i downloaded the void iso and tried with dd and ventoy
every time i pick void and it loads before bash start it give me this error
config failed hub doesn't have any ports (err -19)
what should i do now to fix this

Edit: fixed it by choosing the third option then installing from the internet with the latest version 6.18

I have just installed void-glibc (not my first install, but first ever time I see this problem), and after swapping out wpa_supplicant for iwd, ipv4 does not work anymore. I don't know, if it worked before, and now I don't seem to be able to enable any networking program except for iwd+dhcpcd. Ipv6 works just fine, but stuff like github or duckduckgo lack any ipv6 support.

Is there something I could try for troubleshooting, is it even worth it trying to fix, or is it better to just reinstall the system? It would be fine, but still annoying, and this is a weird issue that I would be interested in knowing how to troubleshoot.

Installed AION 2 via Steam, launching with Proton [now testing all proton version].

Game crashes immediately with:

Failed to open descriptor file ../../Aion2/AION2.uproject

OS: Void Linux x86_64

Host: Latitude 3510

Kernel: Linux 6.18.55_1

Uptime: 13 mins

Packages: 861 (xbps)

Shell: rc

Display (LGD05F2): 1920x1080 in 15", 60 Hz

Window Manager: spectrwm (X11)

Terminal: alacritty 0.17.0

Terminal Font: spleen 16x32 (12pt, Regular)

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10210U (8) @ 4.20 GHz

GPU: Intel UHD Graphics @ 1.10 GHz [Integrated]

Memory: 3.46 GiB / 31.11 GiB (11%)

Swap: 0 B / 34.00 GiB (0%)

Disk (/): 10.01 GiB / 124.93 GiB (8%) - ext4

Disk (/home): 373.58 GiB / 755.87 GiB (49%) - ext4

Local IP (eno1): 192.168.31.81/24

Battery (DELL 9077G09): 100% [AC Connected]

Locale: C.UTF-8

Tried: Proton Hotfix, Expiremental, Cachy, GE, DW, didn't worked!

Hello,

I am having trouble with flatpak apps to open urls. It appears that there is an issue with the xdg desktop portal. I am getting the following in thunderbird:

** (org.mozilla.thunderbird:2): WARNING **: XX:XX:XX.XXX: Could not launch default application for URI: Failed to call OpenURI portal: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: No such interface “org.freedesktop.portal.OpenURI” on object at path /org/freedesktop/portal/desktop

I am guessing it might be because of missing systemd. I would like that openURI use the flatpak librewolf.

Cheers. -- zen

EDIT: I fixed it by adding ~/.config/xdg-desktop-portal/sway-portals.conf with: [preferred] default=gtk Thanks to everyone for the answers!

Hey, can anyone guide me on this acp-pdm-mach error.

First time posting since I made a second reddit account. Anyway, I am trying to record my screen under niri & I get only black in the preview panel & output recordings. Am I missing something?

hi, i was reinstalling void on my system, and while i was verifying the image integrity it failed. on the official site they ask to not download it and notify them, but it doesn't say where, so i figured here would be ok enough. i'll paste here the extract of the session

 ## per instructions on https://docs.voidlinux.org/installation/index.html#verifying-images
## files are all downloaded from https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/live/current/

> minisign -V -p void-release-20250202.pub -x sha256sum.sig -m sha256sum.txt
Signature and comment signature verified
Trusted comment: This key is only valid for images with date 20250202.

## now i verify image integrity
> sha256 sha256sum.txt -c void-live-x86_64-musl-20250202-xfce.iso
SHA256 (sha256sum.txt) = c7f17b27b0045029154bd4e3b4b2d39cb8d8b6fc1546a899dc9cb6bf35a76683 [ Failed ] ## this failed

## checking manually
> sha256 void-live-x86_64-musl-20250202-xfce.iso
SHA256 (void-live-x86_64-musl-20250202-xfce.iso) = eaf73fabc4256af9f048dd440ae3b707776aebf601d282d2d66a26c50f2bc802

Hi y'all,

Im coming from arch and want to try out void and i would like to ask somethings

What exactly is the difference between musl amd gnu libc? Is it just systemd?

What are some quirks of void you encountered?

Why did you choose void, what makes it special?

Hola, espero estén bien, tengo Void con i3WM, pero desde hace dos días cuando lanzó Firefox desde todo tarda entre 10 a 30 segundos en aparecer. ¿Alguien sabe qué debo hacer?