Flexin Musl on Void Linux 

“it’s not based on arch or debian, it’s just based” so real

"It's not based on arch or debian... I T ' S J U S T B A S E D"

If you check, void is so based that you can even install gnome without systemd, because it uses two packages that just emulate it's behaviour

You even deep faked the reflection on the thinkpad. Great job luke

neofetch is such an essential package.

It should be mentioned that Void Linux is not hostile towards systemd. They used to use systemd but switched to runit because systemd simply does not support musl at all.

I was literally looking at your channel and videos when this dropped. And whats even wilder is I was looking for tutorials on runit for my Void install

You have to know that void runs very well on old hardware and even has a ppc big endian port, i have seen many people running it on old macs

Instead of compiling from source, you should create templates and push those templates to the void-linux repo and get them added to the repository

Learning a lot from your videos man, Void looks absolutely fantastic and a great equal between Arch and Gentoo install-wise.

the void is so all consuming not 1 particle of glow exists inside of it

Always nice to see Void Linux getting some attention, shame that it always seems to be install videos. I installed Void headless and then added a few things like DWM and quite a few other customizations. It wasn't easy (I'm not an expert) since I had to build from source and get all the required devel libs. Using Void Linux I learned a few things, more than you normally would using any other distro... Using Trim on SSDs for example. I also love the Void Linux handbook. It does not hold your hand or show how to do anything, it simply provides you with the information you need to learn (or to figure out) how to do it yourself.

no systemd and gnu truly sigma operating system

"its just based" is the new "it just works"

Nice video man!! Keep up the good work!

Can you make some more Void content? Seems super interesting. Thanks

Void just said "I do not conform"

Mental Outlaw: *Posts a video about another linux flavor* The viewers: Where we're dropping?

I'm jamming out to Flute Salad. Idk if it's the OSRSBeatz remix or what but its banging. 👌

We love the distros

loving the old school song

hanging onto this... going to start building my own Kernel. Gonna name it ColonelBased... ...pushes up glasses and mouthbreathes...

Based and installed

I was literally just looking at your channel and got the notification

I use this OS on my Raspberry Pi. It boots insanely fast and is a great, simple embedded distro.

I'm definitely going to use this for how efficiently it uses the memory. I'm a longtime Debian user and it seems I might finally switch.

I’ve been using arch recently, but void seems really nice, I like the installer a lot too.

Thanks for that !

9:46 Note that xcheckrestart doesn't restart anything itself, it just tells you what needs to be restarted.

Do you ever grab a coffee when you're installing/compiling stuff in your videos, or do you always wait?

based! commenting for the algorithm

I remember having a good time on Void, I think I used it for about a year until I distrohopped to idk, Fedora or Debian and pretty much haven't looked back at Void, it's pretty nice tho

I've never heard of this distro but the name is so cool imma try it

The installation music is really nice. (and yes, I know it was added in postprocessing)

I'm loving the Runescape trap music in these ahahaa

king

DAAAAMN THE OSRS BEATS THO

void is one of the very few ppc64 big endian distros with a 64 bit userland, cool stuff.

>calls DVORAK "high functioning" >uses Void musl on a gm45 Thinkpad What did he mean by this? 🤔

Holy shit dvorak is the default? Never thought that I *wouldn't* have to change my keyboard when installing :P

pog

based

Cool

Also I recommend using the flatpak version of firefox from it due to to drm problems on musl

5:39 that is some banger music

The runescape music 👍

I honestly might used this next switching from manjaro this seems like one of the most based distros i have seen in a while

algo go up

void linux + dwm = based

I tried to install a desktopless Void two times, because I want bspwm. Everytime the shell is unable to change the keyboard region properly, the second time I had random log lines printed in the shell even if I do nothing ! Alpine install was a much better experience even if it requires more steps. Alpine basis just looks better, even for building a desktop setup. And also the package manager is easier to use.

void is great linux distro. it is on my fully upgraded thinkpad x220. and i cant escape.

Hey Mental Outlaw! I must upfront say that this might not be the place to ask this question but i don't know who to ask and you seem like you really know what you are talking about, with experience over the whole spectrum of Linux systems. So the thing is, I am a sound designer and have found a relationship between simple and clean code(I think) and sound quality. When going from windows/mac to Ubuntu this first became clear. Later I have been installing and messing around with jack etc to see what sounds the best. Recently, I found two major things creating a big step up in sounds quality; The first thing was using Tiling window managers(i3) and the second was trying Artix with OpenRC instead of Systemd, I can only guess this is because there is less simultaneous processing that have to be done and therefore less noise(the computer can focus on the rendering of the sound). I also tried the sound when starting apps without a window manager(directly in xorg i guess, as a kiosk system sort of..) and it sound very good, but not doable workflow tbh:) I dont focus on the ease of use that much at this point but reaper and pure data needs to work. It feels like I came to an and end point where Arch(systemd free), gentoo and void are interesting options to look into, am I right or would you point me in a different direction(I guess alpine is out because of musl together with DAWs?)? Also, I only used "normal" linux kernel, and I can only imagine having a custom kernel for my sound apps would not only bring better sound but also better performance and stability(is Gentoo the way to go....)? Sorry for the massive and maybe misplaced question. Maybe i can DM you about it? Thank you for a great channel!!!! Have a great day! /Niclas

I thought I just saw the Turin shroud staring into your console window. Spooked me out until I realised there was a person reflected on a monitor

Dvorak is bae

5:39 OMG that midi 🤣

musl might be better for embedded devices but for a normal desktop user glibc is much better. Most applications in GNU/Linux are built torwards glibc because after all it's called GNU/Linux with an emphasis on GNU so the glibc is the official C library.

Hands down best distro for an old Thinkpad, unfortunately they don't support musl for the 32 bit variant. I just can't afford to let my system be bogged down with soystem d and bloatware, for performance and memory reasons.

Came for the Void Linux, stayed for the RuneScape soundtrack.

I've used it since this video came out. Until now. I'm a learning person so of course I was trying to get the most minimal system possible. In that mission I tried to install ubase and sbase. But apparently Void Linux really likes using sed with GNU only commands. They also abandoned LibreSSL which you could see in this video when he updated the machine. It's just sad that they slowly are making it worse. So now I'm creating my own distro. With a suckless mindset. BearSSL with every suckless utility and the Linux Kernel. Should be good enough. Yes. It's possible to create an entire install with only suckless utilitys. Since ubase contains getty and all that required stuff. It should boot pretty fast. Though the hardest part will be customizing the Linux Kernel since... I've never gotten my custom built one to boot. Always get some weird errors. Like it not supporting btrfs. I don't use btrfs.

Another void linux vid to consoom

USSLE! That's how it's pronounced?? I can't believe I've been under the impression that it was pronounced more like muesli, but cut short! This makes a lot more sense...

Kenny we could see in your reflections that you weren't dressed properly tsk tsk tsk. Once I installed Void in virtual box myself and I can confirm your findings. I am still sticking to Linux Mint Cinnamon and probably will for ever but Void would be my goto distro otherwise.

Before i switched to gentoo, void was my main distro. Still i make custom imgs on void

Kenny! a bit of a stretch, but will you ever review PostmarketOS?

5:55 LoL , best part

Hey, so I built a kvm to finally get rid of windows from running on bare metal. Running windows ltsc in the vm. Issue is how do I make sure to make my vrm undetected? I can’t seem to find a way to change the network adapter, and drive names. Using virtio. All of them say RedHat disk or network adapter. You can’t seem to use vendor for Ethernet adapter or disks. Thanks

Void's "Rosetta Stone" page on the wiki is pure gold

Void is Based

My only real gripe with Void is their hard stance against packaging patched kernels, so getting fsync for Proton takes a bit of work.

Yes.

Ps. after 2 years they reduced support of various DEs, so only XFCE, due to testing reasons. However, you still should be able to get the base image and install mate, cinnamon, lxde or whatever you want.

Do you have a video where you give your opinion to rpm based distros like centos/rockylinux or fedora?

I come for the runescape music

the thing that void linux lack is package, everything is perfect

You’re based

I T 'S J U S T B A S E D

the installer & partitioning reminds me a lil' of the blackarch process

When the 2 most liked comments are about "It's not based on Arch or Debian, it's just b a s e d", you know you made a good pun

Just to mention that you can use start/stop as well in runit.

Reporting in. Installed on Thinkpad X230 with similar if not the same SSD. Installation took exactly the same amount of time. For me the installer seemed to automatically set the swap partition to a swap fs.

how is gaming w/ musl.. DXVK, wine, proton, steam, lutris, NVIDIA driver..... ? If you are interested in having a GNU free OS.. like mentioned in the beginning.. Toybox got you covered.. or even busybox

isn't it possible to run steam via docker or flatpak on musl version? i distinctly recall someone saying that void supports that for certain apps that require glibc. but i could be wrong.

Waaay over my head :) Leaving a comment to hack the algorithm, though. Al Gore rhythm ;)

What keyboard are you typing on? Sounds clacky like it might be a Unicomp and/or IBM Model M.

Firejail doesn't really work. Nor does swap encryption if you use /etc/crypttab. Also i had to remount proc manually to get hidepid=2 to work. The last thing might have been fixed by now, the other two I ran in again recently. Edit: Also the documentation doesn't mention anymore that some mainboards need the efi file to be: ../boot/BOOTX64.efi or it won't show up in boot selection. It did before.

what i dont understand is , what can actually be the drawbacks of using musl instead of glibc. is it ONLY about when i make/compile a program from source on that system? that it could be some incompatibility arising? or can there be problems also during normal use , or when i simply install programs via XBPS

can you tell us what does htop read in terms of ram usage from your laptop ?

More tux cart, pls. Finish the entire campaign? Maybe second open source let's play channel? Would be dank.

Absolutely no need to have install music go so hard, but it did

As a user, not a developer, why would you use musl instead of glibc on a normal modern system, when glibc is tried and true and has gone through a lot more development time and fixes?

9:48 if you would read the docs properly it says it will just print out the processes that need to be restarted

My void linux base install running no DE, only i3 with xorg and light dm only running alacritty uses 200mb of ram. And I'm displaying to two monitors. Sadly I'm not on musl, I chose glibc to be able to play a few games on steam

Void is the best minimal just works distro

Can you do a video on pearOS? IDK which video to comment on so it at least manages to get your attention. But here i am. Pls notice me senpai.

It's just based

Gonna get an older computer soon...Void Linux looks really interesting, but Gentoo has piqued my interest for a while now. Not sure yet which I'll go with

I want to like void but I just miss the AUR too much, is there any way to get around that?

Can you make a similar video but for FreeBSD?

me, who actually uses Dvorak: *shifty gaze*

Are there any distros that support tablet interfaces without keyboard and mouse?