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:

  • Hyprland is an unofficial package

  • Pywlroots and Pywayland (for qtile Wayland) don’t exist, BUT there is a qtile-wayland package

  • 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?

  • Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    I can’t tell you if Void or any other minimal distro is significantly faster relatively to something more comfortable than Fedora.
    But even if it is, then I would still use something “bloated” because it just works and requires less input from my side.
    Booting takes just seconds anyway with NVMe disks, so why bother if it takes 4 or 5 seconds, if the PC runs smoother for the next days it is powered on?

    Use whatever distro you like more, and install your packages with Distrobox. Here’s a post I made a while ago about it: https://feddit.de/post/8018330

    I personally enjoy Fedora Atomic even more than the mutable version, but in your case, you would have to decide for yourself.