I’ll try keep this short and concise.
I’ve been on Fedora for about 2 months now and it is one of the few distros to have all the packages I use (albeit, via COPR).
I recently read an article about Void and it seemed very appealing to me. I’ve been wanting to move onto something more minimal, and Void, with Runit and with its scripts that it ships with, as well as giving me a new init system and package manager to learn, seems amazing.
In terms of getting all my stuff on Void, their package search suggests all the packages I currently need are available for it.
Only potential sources of trouble are:
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Hyprland is an unofficial package
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Pywlroots and Pywayland (for qtile Wayland) don’t exist, BUT there is a qtile-wayland package
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My broswer of choice, Floorp, will have to be ran as a flatpak, which may cause issues, especially performance issues, as I’m a serious tab hoarder.
I want to learn more about Void’s systems by using them, but I’m not sure if the transition is worthwhile.
Is the bootup/shutdown speed, and faster package management really worth it? Is it really significant enough?
Well, it’s up to you to decide if advantages of a distro are more significant to you then disadvantages.
I would argue that the best part about void is not actually runit and xbps, but minimalist dependencies.
I wouldn’t care about unofficial status of hyprland package, since it is unofficial in most distros.
And about the lack of some software. There is a thing, called xdeb, that allows you to automatically convert any deb package to xbps package (with correct dependencies). You can even automatically install them from any deb repository via xdeb-install tool.