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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

I'm installing Debian next time. Arch is OK but it breaks too often and keeping everything working in an Arch installation is a full time job. Void Linux is like Arch but more stable. Voids weakness is that some of the underlying libraries are different (something about multilib and glibc I think) and there are certain Linux programs that can never run in void and you can't get them. Monodevelop and virtual box for example. I might have to switch to something else soon just because I need this stuff. (yes I know about qemu and bochs, yes I know about compiling basic c# programs via the command line, and all of that is unsuitable for my use case). Void seems to be a great choice as long as you don't need to use Monodevelop or virtualbox though. It's great at gaming once you switch to x11.

There's a good chance Debian will have a harder time playing steam games due to older mesa drivers or something but it might be a necessary tradeoff.

Edit: also, WTF is the font situation in Void Linux? Half my webpages are have some shitty font front the 90s instead of whatever the normal font is and most of my pdfs look weird and can't be printed because of it. I have just about every single thing in Void repository with the word "font" installed yet I still have to get out my Ubuntu laptop every time I want to print a pdf.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This isn't actually true. They offer both glibc and musl these days. Glibc is the normal one most Linux distros use. Musl doesn't work with some things, but is still desirable to some people for various reasons. Flatpak could be used to work around this, as it should pull in whatever libc that the program needs. Distrobox would also work. Though again this only applies of using the musl libc version.

Another potential sore point is not using systemd init. There are some things dependant on systemd, though generally there are packages which act as a replacement for whatever systemd functionality is needed.

I still have no idea what's wrong with Voids fonts though. You are on your own there!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I config like 30 mins a day its never good

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

We all have different definitions of "working system". I call a first time boot into alpine linux (after installing docs and ditching busybox) or openbsd a fully working system.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Try Endeavour OS. You only need to do ******* to turn Endeavour into Arch.

[–] Titou 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

10 minutes, that's the time i need to configure my system from A to Z, and after that all i do most of the time is updating it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it is obvious hyperbole.

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