I switched to Void ~2 months ago from NixOS, shortly after systemd made decisions that I could no longer stand behind. I was heavily integrated into NixOS, with both of my laptops, gaming desktop, and servers running it. I had already tried Gentoo, and while it's great, I didn't want to compile most things, and I wanted something simpler than OpenRC.
I finally looked closer at Void Linux and thought I'd give it a shot. I nuked NixOS on my laptops and desktop (something I probably spent 80+ hours configuring) to install Void. My initial concern was gaming, as most people say you "have to be on the latest of everything to game AAA!!" Well, lo and behold, I get the same performance, if not better, on Void than on NixOS unstable. Everything just works, and the system is extremely lean, simple, and fast.
I'm really just posting this to thank the maintainers of this amazing distribution and to give people in the future another opinion if they're concerned about gaming on Void. Hardware below :)
Desktop:
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Ryzen 5 7600X
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9060 XT 16GB
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32GB DDR5
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6.18.28_1
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mesa-26.0.6_1
Laptops:
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ThinkPad T14 G1
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ThinkPad T14 G6 (later switched this to Artix as it has better battery life)
I have been trying to install some packages for a couple minutes now and appears to not be online and a couple other repos are down too. Is anyone else experiencing this?
