So im running into an issue where when im running youtube on my internal monitor on my laptop and minecraft on my main monitor, the game drops fps 3x while the video is playing but as soon as i pause it, it jumps right back up. My specs are a intel i7 10750h and a nvidia gtx 1650ti, i have the latest proprietary drivers installed. This void install is only 1 day old. Im using i3wm + xfce + xorg. Another issue i would to address is when i had this laptop running arch + hyprland i would get almost double the performance i get without playing media on my void install which is about the same as my windows install, the reason i switched to void was performance. any help would be appreciated.

for my next pc, i'm planning on doing a full high-end amd build, and i was wondering if windows 11 or void linux is better if i want the most gaming performance out of my pc? (i already use void on all my devices, but i'm not sure how it would run on a full amd build)

Went to boot Void Linux this morning and I was greeted with the following line:

debugfs: 'netdev:p2p-dev-wlo1' already exists in 'phy0'

Not sure what that is all about. I did change the light-gtk-greeter.conf the last time I used Void Linux. Could that be the issue?

I also performed a system upgrade on Aug 09 and rebooted my computer without issue after the upgrade.

I am going to benchmark the performance difference between glibc and musl libc for video operations with ffmpeg. It is a potato pc, but I hope this can help to highlight the difference. If have any commands in mind you would want me to test, leave them below. I am considering using of using h264_vaapi and libx264 for encoding

Started on Ubuntu in like 2003, did Mint a few years after that. I wasn't a consistent Linux user because I'm a gamer. About 10 years ago now I setup Ubuntu to run as a Plex server, and it's been sitting constantly for years in the background, that was my first permanent Linux install. This year I tried CachyOS on my Alienware, and I knew I could move everything to Linux. Then did CachyOS on my gaming workstation. Then I moved the Plex Server to Fedora.

A few months ago I broke out my 13-year-old Dell XPS 13 9333 Developer edition, running Haswell and 8gb, spent $25 on a new battery, and put Mint on it. Mint today runs better than Ubuntu 13 years ago on the same hardware. It's backwards from historical software slowing down hardware, Linux is just super cool and getting better. It was solid, but just to keep the frames I ran YouTube at 720p.

Now this Haswell laptop has always struggled with the touchpad, Ubuntu, Mint, didn't matter, sometimes it works sometimes not. Fine I use a bluetooth mouse. Then I saw Jake@Linux talking about Void. I liked the idea of runit and comparing it to how offensive systemd is, and that's not even in regards to if it ever does age verification. So last night I bit the bullet and got Void Base on my Ventoy. Now I'm gonna be fair, I'm not a Linux sysadmin, but I've done some code, which of course is not remotely the same, so without Jake's 2 videos and Gemini's help I wouldn't have gotten to this point, had to get through configuring bluetooth, touchpad, and sound, and it all works perfectly now. So here I am running Void with gnome, which is fast and outstanding. It's under 9gb on disk, it uses about half the ram Mint used to, I even upgraded to kernel 7.2 because of the swap improvements and now Void doesn't even need it, and I can stream YouTube at 1080p without the fan spinning up.

Honestly Void has been an improvement over Mint as much as Mint was over Ubuntu, super cool. Nice work to the team.

How would I go and add a keyboard that can pop up when I touch the screen? I have a spare tablet I'm trying to fully utilize for my toddler as a TV. This tablet is with very poor specs and I want to have this tablet with a keyboard for login and be able to do whatever all by screen without the use of a physical keyboard.

I've noticed as many other distros are including the latest stable kernel void is still using version 6.18. I was wondering how come?

Lo dicho, es una obra maestra! Vengo de FreeBSD, y aunque igualmente, es el pico de la ingeniería y uno de los mejores sistemas operativos que usé, nadie sabe apreciar lo bueno que es este sistema operativo, entonces nadie hace software para FreeBSD. Los ports tampoco me bastan, no andan taaan bien y la verdad que no hay muchos. Entonces pensé: "y si instalo algo que se acerce o sea Unix puro como FreeBSD, con esa alma de que no te esconde nada, pero que es Linux así que tengo un montón de paquetes?" Y acá está! Estoy escribiendo ahora un compilador (o bueno, probablemente sea un ensamblador) en FASM (y si, no sé cuanto aire respiré al nacer, pero Assembly me parece el mejor lenguaje, me parece disfrutable de usar y lo uso para todo, incluso cuando hay una alternativa más rápida de escribir y con una diferencia de velocidad que no vale tanto), pero bueno, eso no es lo que importa. QUE OBRA DE ARTE QUE ES VOID LINUX!!!

I struggled a bit coming from another distro (sorry, I suck at tech) but finally got everything working. I want to document what I did in case anyone else has issues too. I think some packages that KDE Plasma needed were unintuitive so hopefully this can show up on Google and help others with this issue.

I also had issues getting a display manager working (I tried Ly, LightDM, greetd, and SDDM) but I found a simple one called emptty that gets the job done, so these instructions include setting that up. In the end, following these steps should give you a functional display manager, desktop environment, and audio. This was on an AMD Thinkpad in August 2026.

For partitions during the install, I selected:

• 1G boot (FAT I think) on /boot/efi
• 75G Btrfs on /
• 4G swap
• remaining Btrfs on /home

Here are the packages I installed via sudo xbps-install -S

• dbus
• elogind
• kde-plasma
• kde-baseapps
• emptty
• qt5-wayland
• qt6-wayland
• libstdc++
• xorg
• NetworkManager
• mesa-dri
• seatd

Then I enabled the following services via the standard sudo ln -s /etc/sv/<service> /var/service

• dbus
• emptty
• NetworkManager

Then I rebooted. You can just do sudo reboot if the desktop environment isn't up yet.

After rebooting, I followed the audio instructions for PipeWire and PulseAudio here (https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/media/pipewire.html). Then I wrote a short start-up script with just

#!/bin/bash

pipewire &

Then I went to autostart options in KDE menu and selected that script to run on login, and rebooted again, and everything worked pretty well. I might have missed a package somewhere but I'm pretty sure this was everything.

If anything goes wrong, you can drop into the TTY with CTRL-ALT-F2 to fix it, and switch back to the desktop environment with CTRL-ALT-F7. And you can switch to root with su -, and then back to your user with exit.

Hope that helps someone 💜

Successfully installed Void Linux arm64 as ­VM Guest on my Macbook M4 work machine! Hopefully the M4 will soon be supported by the Asahi Linux project. I encountered 2 major issues I had to resolve, solutions below.

Machine: M4 Macbook
VM host: Parallels Desktop
VM guest: Void Linux arm64 / aarch64

Note that these steps are roughly summarized and only experienced with arm64 installation. If you need more detailed help feel free to let me know.

Solution 1st issue: When choosing "ROOTFS" installation method, extracting the tarball fails - solution was to install the "xz" package (xbps-install -S xz). Maybe this can be added to the official manual https://docs.voidlinux.org/installation/guides/chroot.html.

Solution 2nd issue: Newly installed system boots straight into grub prompt
- boot live image and chroot into the system
- install linux so that vmlinuz... exists somewhere on the system
- intall grub-arm-64-efi
- xbps-reconfigure -fa
- if vmlinuz... is still missing, run command: xbps-install -fy linux6.XX (replace version no.)
- reinstall grub config
- exit chroot, unmount and reboot into fixed system

Solution 3rd issue (not crucial): clipboard sync between host and guest does not work and that is because Parallels Tools (see 'Action' in Menu) are only made for major systemd-distributions. After manual installation clipboard sync worked:
- mount Parallels Tools CD and copy content to local machine
- cd into local dir and copy content in ./tools/tools-arm64/ (bin, lib, sbin) to your corresponding system dirs
- xbps-install -S dkms linux-headers base-devel gcc
- modify the ./installer/install-cli.sh script and uncomment the block (~5 lines) that contains "none of supported package managers found in system"
- run the main install script (sudo ./install)
- create runit service for prltoolsd (I am not sure if this step was necessary) simply by following the steps from google/gemini after prompting: "install prltoolsd service in parallels in void linux guest"

Qualcuno e' a conoscenza di fix o soluzioni affidabili per questo benedetto/maledetto elogind ?

Hello,

I just grabbed an old monitor of mine that had VGA cable so bought a HDMI-VGA converter and connected it to my main laptop. It works perfectly on Windows 11, but when I open Void Linux nothing can detect the existence of such device. The only thing that seemed to partially work is "options nvidia_drm modeset=1" > /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf. I could now see the monitor on xrandr and connect to it, yet 1. it is just a black screen and 2. Nvidia no longer loads and returns an error and warning on nvidia-smi. I also tried passing it as a kernel command line argument in rEFInd, but that made Xorg stop loading completely and when I checked the logs I found it trying to load nouveau drivers, which I do not even have installed. I have nvidia-580 drivers because 595 did not work well with my GTX 1650 Ti.

Thanks!

Creo que ya es obvio con el título

Pensé: tiene una filosofía estilo FreeBSD así como Unix puro y encima tiene todos los paquetes de Linux? Dónde firmo!

I set up a install via xfce. I followed the wiki and I'm sure i did everything right, but for some god forsaken reason the void install (samsung ssd) will not appear. It does exist (chroot works and I've installed grub several times through there), but it just doesn't exist. Every time around I set up grub (it was in the installer! i did set up grub to install but that was ignored) efibootmgr let it show and then disapeared when I turn off the system to access it!. I've been at this for so long and it's getting painful.

fdisk output

[anon@void-live ~]$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors

Disk model: Samsung SSD 980 PRO 2TB

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disklabel type: gpt

Disk identifier: A09F45C9-DE8C-42A6-B33E-A29905DDE8F6

Device Start End Sectors Size Type

/dev/nvme0n1p1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M EFI System

/dev/nvme0n1p2 1050624 3907028991 3905978368 1.8T Linux filesystem

Disk /dev/loop0: 1.16 GiB, 1243377664 bytes, 2428472 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop1: 5.3 GiB, 5695864832 bytes, 11124736 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/sda: 298.09 GiB, 320072933376 bytes, 625142448 sectors

Disk model: WDC WD3200AAJS-0

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disklabel type: gpt

Disk identifier: 0F2BC613-6270-4854-886E-C510E44C58CB

Device Start End Sectors Size Type

/dev/sda2 32768 237567 204800 100M EFI System

/dev/sda5 78462976 624421545 545958570 260.3G Linux filesystem

Disk /dev/sdb: 3.66 GiB, 3932160000 bytes, 7680000 sectors

Disk model: Transcend 4GB

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disklabel type: dos

Disk identifier: 0x51b3017a

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type

/dev/sdb1 * 0 2825759 2825760 1.3G 0 Empty

/dev/sdb2 156 65691 65536 32M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

efibootmgr output

[anon@void-live ~]$ efibootmgr -v

BootCurrent: 0007

Timeout: 0 seconds

BootOrder: 0006,0007

Boot0001* Windows Boot Manager HD(2,GPT,ff007800-a60d-4e66-b9cb-45c31186163c,0x8000,0x32000)/\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi0000424f

dp: 04 01 2a 00 02 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 78 00 ff 0d a6 66 4e b9 cb 45 c3 11 86 16 3c 02 02 / 04 04 46 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 4d 00 69 00 63 00 72 00 6f 00 73 00 6f 00 66 00 74 00 5c 00 42 00 6f 00 6f 00 74 00 5c 00 62 00 6f 00 6f 00 74 00 6d 00 67 00 66 00 77 00 2e 00 65 00 66 00 69 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00

data: 00 00 42 4f

Boot0006* Windows Boot Manager HD(2,GPT,ff007800-a60d-4e66-b9cb-45c31186163c,0x8000,0x32000)/\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi57494e444f5753000100000088000000780000004200430044004f0042004a004500430054003d007b00390064006500610038003600320063002d0035006300640064002d0034006500370030002d0061006300630031002d006600330032006200330034003400640034003700390035007d00000031000100000010000000040000007fff0400

dp: 04 01 2a 00 02 00 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 78 00 ff 0d a6 66 4e b9 cb 45 c3 11 86 16 3c 02 02 / 04 04 46 00 5c 00 45 00 46 00 49 00 5c 00 4d 00 69 00 63 00 72 00 6f 00 73 00 6f 00 66 00 74 00 5c 00 42 00 6f 00 6f 00 74 00 5c 00 62 00 6f 00 6f 00 74 00 6d 00 67 00 66 00 77 00 2e 00 65 00 66 00 69 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00

data: 57 49 4e 44 4f 57 53 00 01 00 00 00 88 00 00 00 78 00 00 00 42 00 43 00 44 00 4f 00 42 00 4a 00 45 00 43 00 54 00 3d 00 7b 00 39 00 64 00 65 00 61 00 38 00 36 00 32 00 63 00 2d 00 35 00 63 00 64 00 64 00 2d 00 34 00 65 00 37 00 30 00 2d 00 61 00 63 00 63 00 31 00 2d 00 66 00 33 00 32 00 62 00 33 00 34 00 34 00 64 00 34 00 37 00 39 00 35 00 7d 00 00 00 31 00 01 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 7f ff 04 00

Boot0007* UEFI: JetFlashTranscend 4GB 1100 PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x14,0x0)/USB(1,0)/USB(0,0)/CDROM(1,0x9c,0x2b1d84)0000424f

dp: 02 01 0c 00 d0 41 03 0a 00 00 00 00 / 01 01 06 00 00 14 / 03 05 06 00 01 00 / 03 05 06 00 00 00 / 04 02 18 00 01 00 00 00 9c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 84 1d 2b 00 00 00 00 00 / 7f ff 04 00

data: 00 00 42 4f

[anon@void-live ~]$

Disk /dev/loop0: 1.16 GiB, 1243377664 bytes, 2428472 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop1: 5.3 GiB, 5695864832 bytes, 11124736 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/sda: 298.09 GiB, 320072933376 bytes, 625142448 sectors

Disk model: WDC WD3200AAJS-0

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disklabel type: gpt

Disk identifier: 0F2BC613-6270-4854-886E-C510E44C58CB

Device Start End Sectors Size Type

/dev/sda2 32768 237567 204800 100M EFI System

/dev/sda5 78462976 624421545 545958570 260.3G Linux filesystem

Disk /dev/sdb: 3.66 GiB, 3932160000 bytes, 7680000 sectors

Disk model: Transcend 4GB

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disklabel type: dos

Disk identifier: 0x51b3017a

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type

/dev/sdb1 * 0 2825759 2825760 1.3G 0 Empty

/dev/sdb2 156 65691 65536 32M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
Why? (and before you ask, yes I selected local when I did the void-installer).

I want to install void on my schools computer. And i would be using dual boot so id like to use as little space as possible so that the missing space is not noticeable so how much space should i alloctae to void while the system being usable with things like a wm (might be hyprland and could try something new), a web browser, some other things like compilers, editors (which will prolly end up being just vim so not so impt).

I tried install newest cachy kernel on void.

i cloned void-packages.

and cloned cachy's patches for kernel.

But i always gets error.

(RESOLVED, CHECK COMMENTS FOR SOLUTION) audio and video playing works fine, however no stream is connected and i’m not sure how to fix this. (new to void) on my KDE session, OBS works fine (probably because of xdg-desktop-portal-kde running) but it doesn’t work on niri. can someone help?

Hi all. I'm new to Void as of today. Not new to linux, and I've been a fan of Debian since the late 90s. I'm not so keen on the move towards systemd (reloading after editing the fstab, why?! Log files in binary format, yikes! Windows registry vibes almost) but I still love apt-get plus I do not need to edit fstab that often or look at log files regularly so it's fine for now.

I also run an OpenBSD VM, and Void feels pretty similar. Simple, no frills, to the point and fast.

So far my Void VM is just for messing around in textmode. I picked the musl variant and that may not be the final version but we will see. So far I feel at home almost immediately. Thanks for have an active subreddit 👍

Question: Is it possible to build your own custom installation image from void linux with custom desktop environment on LVM so that you're left with just minor tweaks after install?

What I mean is that I want to install complete system on my hardware but not going with full chroot install and selecting packages to install.

I want to put flash drive in pc. Go through install process, and have OBS, krita, steam, VPN Client and may other packages to be setup already. Like an install script or something. Is it possible to pull something like this off?

Ive been working on my arch hyprland install for 2 years. I love it. Ive had no complaints. It had completely cured my distro hopping. Ive not had any reason to switch.

But then the malware attacks of the AUR have been happening.

Im not completely sure i want to switch, but im now considering it. And when it comes to a linux distro i want something bare-bones that does not come pre-configured and has no pre-installed software. Void is like arch in that way.

For those who have also come from arch, what benefits are there to be found in the void? Any drawbacks or things you miss from arch?

I tried to remove 6.18 with xbps-remove but I only get a dependency error back:

linux6.18-6.18.45_1 in transaction breaks installed pkg `linux-6.18_1'
ERROR: Transaction aborted due to unresolved dependencies.

Removing 6.18_1 via xbps however gives me another dependency error that says 6.18_1 is not installed.

I also tried xbps-pkgdb -a and it gave me the following output:

ERROR: sddm: hash mismatch for /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup.
ERROR: sddm: files check FAILED.

I also used vkpurge rm and the 6.18 kernel is not showing anymore after using vkpurge list but according to xbps it's still installed....

I already use 7.2 and before that used 7.1. For me 7.1 was stable enoug hto remove 6.18.

Nvm 6.18 is default. Followed these steps: https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/kernel.html?highlight=Kernel#removing-the-default-kernel-series

Hi everyone,

I've been using Void Linux for almost 8 months now.

It's a very polished distribution with some really neat technical choices. I love it !

I've noticed that Thunderbird has been at version 140.8.1 in the Void repositories since March 31.

When I run:

./xbps-src update-check thunderbird

I get:

thunderbird-140.8.1 -> thunderbird-140.14.0

thunderbird-140.8.1 -> thunderbird-140.14.1

thunderbird-140.8.1 -> thunderbird-153.0.1

thunderbird-140.8.1 -> thunderbird-153.0.2

thunderbird-140.8.1 -> thunderbird-153.0.3

thunderbird-140.8.1 -> thunderbird-153.1.0

Void uses the ESR channel for Thunderbird, while the latest ESR version is 153.1.0.

The current Release version recommended by Mozilla is 154.

Is there a reason why the package hasn't been updated yet, or is an update planned ?

Is Thunderbird intentionally staying on 140.8.1 for a technical reason ?

Thanks !

Hi

i'm now around 1week into void and had a great time to setup everything i want and need.

One problem stays: after standby, i can login normally under wayland, but plasmashell "hangs" ... no panels, no background. Apps are working (browser for example).

So i usually open a terminal, find and kill plasmashell and start it anew.

or i execute plasmashell --replace

50% this works, the other times the whole session crashes and i land back on sddm.

What i already tried:

1. Disable nvidia-sleep.sh, use the zzz utility instead.
Move the NVIDIA sleep script:
sudo mv /usr/libexec/elogind/system-sleep/nvidia.sh /usr/libexec/elogind/backup/

2. Edit /etc/elogind/sleep.conf to use zzz:
AllowSuspend=yes
SuspendByUsing=/usr/bin/zzz
HibernateByUsing=/usr/bin/zzz

3. Reload elogind: loginctl reload

This was suggested by an AI since i didn't find anything else on the internet.

Still, this changed exactly nothing, same behaviour.

My current solution is to always shutdown and boot again but i'd like to keep standby

Any clues?

Update:
Something I didn't knew: even with 64GB of RAM, a swap partition seems absolutely necessary to use standby mode. After some rearranging and configuration, the problem seems to be solved. at least after 3 successful recoveries from standby so far.

At the moment I'm backing up the entire /etc *¹ mainly in case I ever have to re-install after disc replacement but also to protect myself from fat-fingered freddy (me).

But it seems a bit of an overkill to cover the entire directory .

When I used to run fedora/redhat there was a way to discover what configuration files in /etc had been changed from the packaged version. Is there a way to do that on void?

*¹ I exclude the 10-Mb /etc/udev/hwdb.bin - what's it doing there instead of /usr/share/...?

Void Linux on i5-Macbook-2013

Boot time Void: 10-15 seconds
Boot time MacOS: 55 seconds

DE: Xfce4

Desktop & Icon Theme: WhiteSur
https://github.com/vinceliuice/whitesur-gtk-theme
https://github.com/vinceliuice/WhiteSur-icon-theme

System updates via GUI: OctoXBPS

All other software: Flatpak & Discover