• Hellfire103OPEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Despite its popularity, I’ve never had much luck with Void. However, I could try it again. 17th time’s the charm!

          • Hellfire103OPEnglish
            4·
            11 months ago

            Just the little things, really. App compatibility, xbps not having too many packages, issues with Musl, GRUB not loading on the LiveUSB, desktop/WM selection, and also I don’t like the way Runit works. I could make it work if I needed to, but overall it just seems like too much effort.

            • LainOfTheWired@lemy.lolEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              Void user here. If you’re having trouble with musl then just use the glibc base image. As they offer both C implementations.

              • Hellfire103OPEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                The Musl issues were a while ago. The other issues were experienced on the glibc version.

                Void is a distribution I keep trying, but I believe I’ll be either sticking with the Arch family or switching to Gentoo, openSUSE, or NixOS.

    • MrBubbles96@lemmy.ml
      4·
      11 months ago

      As an Arch User who keeps hearing about OpenSUSE being a more stable rolling release…mind going into it a bit more? I’m happy on my system, mind, but idk, could be I’m missing out on something big for not making the jump. If nothing else, I’ll know my options

    • Hellfire103OPEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, either openSUSE or Gentoo will probably fix my issues good and proper.

      • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
        2·
        11 months ago

        To be frank I went away from Gentoo for much the same reason. And the constant compilation. I only used it once after that for a small project where I needed to minimise what actually lands in the OS.

        But all that was years ago.

  • JATth@lemmy.world
    4·
    11 months ago

    So it is btrfs snapshot time again and making it a bootable backup before pacman -Syu?

    I have had only single time I remember when the Arch upgrade truly fucked up the system: libreadline.so was broken so bash didn’t work. :D

    I always have a second bootable system in case the main system is unable to boot… So I can at least troubleshoot the main system.

    • Hellfire103OPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I have multiple devices, but I just use my trusty KNOPPIX LiveCD to unlock the disk and move everything onto an external hard drive before either troubleshooting via chroot or just doing a clean install.