Void Linux - Base install and first steps

[@YoelaOlson]

I tried out Void Linux because of this video... then tried out OpenSUSE... and came back to Void Linux because of you Jake. Kudos to you my friend, I love trying out hidden gems. Totally excited for the Hyprland setup I just noticed you posted 😊

[@JakeLinux]

Welcome to the Void! I'm glad you enjoyed it enough to come back, it is definitely my favorite distro and I don't feel it gets enough love.

[@StalinDsouza-w3o]

You're so careful during the installation, confirming each step. Some of the KZbinrs just don't care and some even skip things. Keep up the good work!🎉

[@woahnelly42]

Hi Jake, I agree with you that there isn't much coverage of Void. Looks like you'll be the go-to man for many new void users. You may have just convinced me to give it a try this weekend :) Thanks for your work, from australia

[@JakeLinux]

Well if that is the case, I hope people are patient with me, because I have only been on void for a short time. I'm glad to get it some more coverage though, it is definitely lacking in that area.

[@PixelBoar]

For obvious reasons.

[@donaldmickunas8552]

Great video. I tried Void a few years ago but I wasn’t ready for the void. Today, I’m using two OSs on two machines. I’m running Slackware and FreeBSD with DWM. I have nothing against Void Linux. It is a fine distribution. However, these days, I’ve moved away from rolling distributions and I’m doing a deep dive into the BSDs specifically FreeBSD. Personally, I don’t care for the direction Linux is going though I understand why it is doing so. It doesn’t suit me. The BSDs don’t seem interested in taking that path forward, so I’m learning it now with Slackware as my backup. Having said that, I’m looking forward to your series on Void Linux. It has always held a certain appeal to me. Take care and God bless.

[@JakeLinux]

I have never tried bad, I installed it once in a vm but I never used it. I have Slackware on my list of distros to check out, I always hear good things about it.

[@donaldmickunas8552]

@@JakeLinux Freebsd is quite the change. I have been impressed with the advances that have been made in the past few years. As with Void, it takes time to figure everything out with FreeBSD. Slackware is also in this category. I used a series of videos by Old Tech Bloke to get Slackware up and running. I look forward to following your journey with Void Linux though installing it would constitute a major deviation from my objective to learn Freebsd. 😉

[@folksurvival]

​@@donaldmickunas8552RIP Old Tech Bloke.

[@Bhanukamax]

not specifically for this one, but I'd like to see a Herbsluftwm config done in python or something. Because I hear everyone say you can configure it with any programming language, and then they all do it with bash ;)

[@JakeLinux]

I will look into that

[@DiogenesGreene]

Thank you so much for this step by step. I'm still learning my way around Linux. I've been a windows user all my life and I just could not get partitioning down for the life of me. Still haven't brought my void system online, but I'm one step closer thanks to your vid.

[@JakeLinux]

You're welcome, what is bringing you to Linux from windows?

[@silent7028]

@@JakeLinux Activate Windows. Go to Settings to activate Windows.

[@snufkin6765]

Is is recommended to do the partitioning as shown at 10:00 when I want to install void linux on an empty drive? Like should I generally separate boot, root and home directory even on a fresh OS install on an empty PC? sorry for nooby question :)

[@egorsozonov7425]

Definitely do a separate home partition: that will let you reinstall your OS easily without losing any data. As far as boot on a separate partition: I’ve never done this, I don’t see a need

[@mep8157]

Hi! Great video, what about Hyprland wm? With full disk encryption

[@JakeLinux]

May not be the best option for a vm, I hear Wayland is not great in vms.

[@mep8157]

@@JakeLinux Sorry I think I got hyped, thought you were saying wm, not vm XD. In my native language w is spelled as v sometimes! The hype got me! My bad! Still great video!!

[@andbenn]

Title says base, but you were going XFCE until that fork in the install. There is a TUI based Void base image though. As for WM's, dusk or leftwm would be interesting to see. Both are pretty solid yet don't have a lot of attention.

[@JakeLinux]

Been called out on that by a couple of people, will poss do another video with base iso and maybe one using chroot, we will see. I've never looked into dusk, left is quite popular right now though.

[@Bruces-Eclectic-World]

I use LeftWm on all my systems with SpectrWm, so I good with that video... 😄 LLAP 🖖

[@andbenn]

@@JakeLinux I'm not calling out! 😀 But was hoping my base install a few months go, if I missed something that you will do, like something that syncs ntp - which I missed during my install.

[@TrueWordsOfEternity]

I would love to see you do a i3wm install and rice but not too sure if your up for something too simple

[@JakeLinux]

I'm not against an i3 install, this series is not about being hard or simple, just want to have a walkthrough people can follow to get void going, I want to help get voids popularity up, it doesn't get the love I feel it deserves.

[@wyfyj]

I was thinking of Hyprland, maybe. I don't know if it's in the repo's. If not, Sway. Or some wayland compositor. Qtile as a Wayland compositor if Sway is a no go.

[@dr.asifakonjee]

Hyprland is not in the repos but it is possible to manually install Hyprland in Void and it is not that tough. Hyprland is better than sway IMHO.

[@JakeLinux]

Hyprland has been a popular suggestion, one of the top on the list

[@Roje8]

I followed your tutorials of setting up the Void Linux + DWM and learn a lot, but one thing is missing - login manager. How to set up a nice looking login manager for void?

[@itsfish8672]

Jake a quick question, with void can you install nix package manager on it if you know.

[@JakeLinux]

I was looking into that last week, going to try and see what happens.

[@glidersuzuki5572]

Hey Jake, have you looked into eww? You'll get a super customisable bar and much more(widgets, menus etc)

[@JakeLinux]

I briefly looked at them and wanted to try them out, just have not attempted.them.yet. I did see Matt put out a video about them.

[@danwilhelm7214]

Nice! I vote for AwesomeWM.

[@JakeLinux]

Oooh lua, my nemesis, we will see how it does, I am not a fan, but if that is what people vote for, that's what I will do.

[@alooy333]

I also like awesomewm but I feel it so easy and nice that I am getting bored with it. Love it tho. I guess I just need something more challenging like xmonad or dwm.

[@danwilhelm7214]

@@JakeLinux Lua itself isn't too bad, but the default awesome config file takes coding inconsistency to the next level. imho 🙂

[@wyfyj]

Fun fact, the audio on the live iso is muted or basically muted. I had to install xfce-pulseaudio-pulgin (i think) to be able to change the audio. I just don't know the pulse audio commands off the top of my head. Finally putting void over my Gentoo install. Debating if I want to do minimal install or go easy route and do local install. Thinking I will live in bspwm and qtile on this system.

[@JakeLinux]

Nice, I'm reading into Gentoo to give it a shot here before too long, any tips?

[@wyfyj]

@@JakeLinux please tell me you got my replies. I'm not seeing them

[@JakeLinux]

@@wyfyj I saw at least one, it was long, now it is gone for some reason.

[@colbybraden]

great vid! I've been on Void for almost 3 months now and not looking back :) I say go with i3 it's a very common wm that lots of people use and people that are wanting to get started in tiling window managers usually go with.

[@JakeLinux]

It is a popular choice, we will see how it fares in the voting

[@muudus_tv]

Hi jake.. don't you have a video series for herbsluftwm installation and configuration.

[@JakeLinux]

I don't have a full install vid just yet

[@DMBoyCloud]

I would like to see a xmonad install and basic configuracion. I have been able to get void installed but unable to ger Xmonad running.

[@JakeLinux]

Xmonad was a bear to get running and keep running, in fact I gave up for a while, I will make some videos on how to get it up and going as well. It is one of my favorite managers.

[@jackelofnar]

Qtile would be great

[@JakeLinux]

Popular choice

[@S0ft_b4b3]

Love arch but my notebook died so i tried void linux from this on a netbooks. Good video!

[@kulwantsembhi1982]

Would like to see QTILE or Hyperland

[@JakeLinux]

Both high on the list, I will narrow it down tonight and see what happens

[@bsbxl]

Hi Jake, great project! As for the vote, my interest would be peaked by Herbstluftwm or BSPWM. Thanks.

[@JakeLinux]

The initial install is going to be dwm, it won the voting, however after that is done, I plan on doing a herbstluftwm install and set up as well.

[@bsbxl]

@@JakeLinux I will certainly watch both videos/series! I am sure I will learn a ton from both.

[@honchokomodo]

Hi, I'm giving Void a try and I'm having trouble installing Hyprland. Could you cover that? Thanks!

[@JakeLinux]

I will look into that, what issues are you having.

[@honchokomodo]

@@JakeLinux Cmake is telling me that im missing cairo and pango, but ive already installed it.

[@andbenn]

There's a real obscure and minimal twm called sscrotwm. It's a fork of spectrwm and cuts out a lot, like the bar! heh. Maybe not for now, but near future? My sscrotwm build on void fails to start with no obvious logs. Arch builds and runs.

[@JakeLinux]

I've heard of that, I was under the impression that spectrwm was a newer version of scrotwm.

[@andbenn]

@@JakeLinux yes, scrotwm -> spectrwm, but sscrotwm is a fork of spectrwm. Per sscrotwm's github page, it's the shriveled scrotwm , and maybe there was a great schism then on the team/fans of scrotwm/spectrwm that weren't in favor of the name change/direction. idk.

[@JakeLinux]

@@andbenn gotcha, my eyes didn't see the extra s at the front of sscrotwm

[@degujeckle]

currently using voidlinux with bspwm, fluxbox & xfce. so my vote would be: bspwm 1st; and, fluxbox 2nd. peace ~ cheers.

[@JakeLinux]

That's the only vote I've seen for fluxbox, but BSPWM is high on the vote count

[@itsfish8672]

Jake DK window manager please. GVJ.

[@JakeLinux]

Have to do that one on artix, tried it on void and it did not want to work right.

[@keltyll]

What about multiple windows managers ? something like i3-Gaps and AwesomeWM both at the same time?

[@TrueWordsOfEternity]

I3-gaps isn't a thing anymore it's been merged into i3wm

[@JakeLinux]

Not a bad idea, will probably be the case, but where to start

[@greenchilaquiles]

Now wait a minute the installer doesnt automatically add the regular user? Does that mean i also have to manually add my user to all the groups as well?

[@JakeLinux]

Yup, make sure you are added to any groups you want.

[@kittenlikeasmallcat7455]

Hi there, I'd like to ask if you have any interest in looking into Splitlinux at some point? It's a security focused void-based distro. I've been fiddling with it, but I can't seem to wrap my head around it.

[@JakeLinux]

Never heard of splitlinux, I will take a look and see what it is all about.

[@danieldiaz2093]

I would like to use scripts to create and view the virtual machines, since the virt-manager is heavy. Could you in future videos, explain how to run the script and what to install? Thank you!

[@JakeLinux]

My VM scripts are in my scripts git repo on GitHub and GitLab.

[@danieldiaz2093]

@@JakeLinux Thank you so much! I have some problems that Son of Confiturecion Segurarie ... only nudoro qemu? or should I install anything else? By the way ... I also have to edit the file /etc /hosts? I appreciate your help, I am evaluated a lot about your videos!

[@JakeLinux]

@danieldiaz2093 make sure you have qemu, kvm, virt-viewer, and libvirt/virtlock packages installed then make sure to Start the libvirtd, virtlock, and virtlogd daemons, check in the void manual and it should show which services you need to run to get everything working.

[@danieldiaz2093]

@@JakeLinux thx!

[@iambasanta]

hey i have a question. After a successful installation, i have to enter sudo password to run simple command like poweroff,reboot,shutdown etc. How can i run these without entering the password ?

[@dr.asifakonjee]

loginctl poweroff, loginctl reboot should do the jobs.

[@JakeLinux]

@@dr.asifakonjee beat me to it, thanks

[@wyfyj]

I still need to do a VM of void. It's not like i need another distro to commit to using lol.

[@JakeLinux]

I gotta setup nix

[@OpenBASED]

A year late to the party, but Openbox would be cool and in a similar style as the distro CrunchBang++ or your way, I just want to see Openbox being setup on Void.

[@doranselwyn8608]

Looks like the installer might've got fixed because I didn't have that user password issue on the first login.

[@JakeLinux]

That's what I hear, I'm glad they addressed that.

[@edbeckerich3737]

Im installing Void, ive just got startx working with Qtile, what display manager do you use? I need to get the source pkging done too

[@JakeLinux]

@@edbeckerich3737 I use either sddm or just startx

[@entropy2910]

What virtual machine are you using? KVM or Qemu, clearly it is not virtualbox

[@JakeLinux]

I use kvm/qemu and virt-manager for when I want to use a GUI

[@rickybarabba7866]

Hi Jake. Herbstluftwm would be great to see set from ground up.

[@JakeLinux]

The votes ended up being for dwm so that will be the initial install, but once that is done, I will be doing a Herbst setup as well.

[@nymnicholas]

Great Vid. i just got Void to run on a PiZero2W last night. Will try on x64 platform soon as well. Just a slight note. Ram in your video should be 4096, not 8, right?

[@JakeLinux]

Thanks, and yes you are correct about the ram.

[@compujohn96]

First off... Lots of activity in the comments!! Awesomeness! I'm happy for you Jake. I have been thinking about trying out Void. I just did my first Gentoo install on my home server machine and am trying to wrap my head around emerge atm but Void is next for my main machine and this will help. I was thinking of a few things that I would like to see from your channel (second to the growth it is showing) Vim Skeleton files with date and mod stamps ( you did a video with a macro that dates and sets a header) I dig your FZF use and would like you to show off some of those awesome menus. (people want an alternative to rofi and the D) ...there was something else...but I can't think of it right now...lolz. Anywho CONGRATS on the traffic brother.

[@JakeLinux]

Thanks for the kind words I appreciate it, also thanks for the suggestions, I will add them to the list of video ideas to get working on.

[@wyfyj]

Merry Sunday Jake. Thanks man.

[@JakeLinux]

Merry Sunday to you as well, you are very welcome.

[@albertpiekarski4569]

what if I can't see my hard drive in filesystems section, only usb

[@JakeLinux]

@@albertpiekarski4569 not sure if this is your issue but that happens to me once, I originally used the dd command to flash my USB, when it didn't read my drive I just reflashed my usb with balena etcher and then it worked, I don't know if the initial flash went bad because of using dd or if it was just a fluke but once I reflashed the bootable usb my drive was there.

[@albertpiekarski4569]

@@JakeLinux yeah I read that someone had exactly the same issue. In my case tho I just forgot to write due to doing it frantically. Thanks.

[@tao4124]

I installed Void, but, after enabling Slim service, the screen starts flickering. :(

[@JakeLinux]

What is Slim?

[@tao4124]

@@JakeLinux Slim is a login manager.

[@JakeLinux]

That's right, I knew I heard the name, just didn't remember what is was

[@lqlarry]

Thanks Jake, another great video. It seems Hyprland is all the rage right now with these youngsters so teach us old farts the way of Wayland.

[@Bruces-Eclectic-World]

No, I don't want to learn youngsters fan dangled stuff... 🙅 LLAP

[@donaldmickunas8552]

@@Bruces-Eclectic-World neither do I. 😉

[@Bruces-Eclectic-World]

@@donaldmickunas8552 🤣

[@lqlarry]

But if HLWM is on then table then by all means, HLWM.

[@Bruces-Eclectic-World]

@@lqlarry I agree, a little Hurb would be nice... 🤪 LLAP

[@numinous694]

can you setup cinnamon desktop?

[@JakeLinux]

Sure give me some time and I will do so.

[@brandonphilander661]

Open box for Void.

[@JakeLinux]

Openbox is quite popular, I never got too into it, but will take another look at it because, why not

[@10leej]

This isn't a Gentoo video

[@JakeLinux]

At some point I will be daring enough to do a Gentoo install.

[@10leej]

@@JakeLinux also you don't need to enable dhcpcd-eth0 if you enable dhcpcd. If you enable dhcpcd it'll enable all network devices. Whereas eth0 will only enable one.

[@bstar777777]

I don't care about the WM, but happy you are doing this. It's nice to see someone else hitting the same quirks and finding solutions.

[@JakeLinux]

Trying to find solutions anyway.

[@zoinkshaggy]

Great video. The user creation bug only happens to me if using the xfce iso. If I use the base iso the user is created sucessfully. Hope this might help someone out.

[@dr.asifakonjee]

It occured to me in the base iso as well but only in virtual machine. I have not faced this problem in a physical machine.

[@JakeLinux]

Happens to me with base or Xfce iso.

[@JakeLinux]

It did the same thing to me when I installed on hardware on my first void install.

[@zoinkshaggy]

@@JakeLinux I see. I tested it yesterday in a virtual machine last night and was able to get it to complete correctly.

[@zoinkshaggy]

@@JakeLinux I remember it correctly when I installed it on my computer a while back it completed as well. I am currently running gentoo at the moment. I really enjoyed my time with void linux. I may have to install it again sometime.

[@sh1do]

Hello! How to install void linux uefi with Gnome Wayland and property driver Nvidia?

[@JakeLinux]

I will have to look into this, I don't have Nvidia so I'm not too familiar with setting it up.

[@tachmonite37]

DWM would be great

[@JakeLinux]

That one has a lot of votes, may be the winner, we will see

[@joelchrono]

I wish you maybe did a sub-chapter on setting it up with full disk encryption. If you were able to do that I would be very grateful

[@10leej]

Honestly you can't do that with the normal void installer it'd have to be done with a chroot install

[@name-last]

Unfortunately void does not give encryption out of the box so you would have to do it after the install or through chroot

[@JakeLinux]

I have never done encryption of any kind, I will have to do some research.

[@habituallearner7680]

Awesome, i3-gaps, Xmonad.

[@tjnaz]

And Herbsluftwm

[@JakeLinux]

Not a big fan of awesome, mainly due to lua, but will see what people want

[@JakeLinux]

@@tjnaz love some Herbst.

[@habituallearner7680]

@@JakeLinux I've really struggle with Lua myself. I wish they all had config files like i3 and Herbstluft.

[@heferus6144]

Tried to follow this video to install void on virtualbox / vmware. I cant do it. Everytime the same problem with Grub. Have to use some other distro i guess

[@JakeLinux]

What issue are you having?

[@alexal4]

Hey Jake, thanks for the video. Trying to setup Void for the first time.Some fonts are too large and not able to make sound working yet, but other than that all looks good.

[@JakeLinux]

Nice, install pulse audio and pamixer and sound just worked for me. what desktop/window manager are you using?

[@alexal4]

@@JakeLinux I am with dwm-6.4 like in my both arch desktops. I think I am missing something. Do I need to start any services?

[@alexal4]

@@JakeLinux Trying in vm for now, before thinking about install it on hardware, have to get more comfortable with it first.

[@mikel8190]

I would say either DK or a Wayland compositor. But in the end it's up to you... I'm gonna watch either way. Lol

[@JakeLinux]

I have tried DK, unfortunately I could not get in it to work on void, did not spend a lot of time but was still a bit of a headache. I want to check out DK, just need to build it on my artix partition.

[@crystalminotaur]

I found you channel today, new sub here. I've used void before and it felt like home. I'm probably boring but I love openbox and it would be interesting to see what you'd do with it.

[@JakeLinux]

Welcome, glad to have you! I will do an open box setup in the near future but the voting for this turned up in favor of dwm. So that will be the initial wm, however, I plan on doing several WM install videos with this setup after it is finished.

[@crystalminotaur]

@@JakeLinux I'm looking forward to that. I hope you put some time on the config part. I like to get inspiration for my own build.

[@wolfgangeppingen1855]

How to install a Canon MFC network printer?

[@JakeLinux]

Do you have CUPS installed and running?

[@wolfgangeppingen1855]

@@JakeLinux Yes, cups is installed and running

[@JakeLinux]

@@wolfgangeppingen1855 I have not used a cannon printer before, have you tried installing and using system-config-printer? What is the actual issue you are having? Does cups not detect the printer? Can't find the right driver? All set up, Just won't print ?

[@wolfgangeppingen1855]

@@JakeLinux the printer is not found, will return to debian, thanks for your support.

[@thingsiplay]

Qtile would be cool.

[@JakeLinux]

Popular choice

[@HDR95]

Have to resort to using chatgpt to connect to wifi. Idk the method provided by void wiki just doesn't work for me. Although I'm 100% sure it's somehow my fault but still...

[@JakeLinux]

Hopefully you can get the issue resolved.

[@relaxdmj8769]

Thank you for this installation guide. No issues, discovering Void thanks to you!

[@JakeLinux]

You're very welcome

[@relaxdmj8769]

@@JakeLinux Hi Jake, Noob question... , how do you install Waybar on Void Linux....? Doesn't seem to work with Xbps-install. Many thanks

[@JakeLinux]

Sudo xbps-install Waybar, needs to be capitalized.

[@relaxdmj8769]

@@JakeLinux Thank you, Sir! Why didn't I think about the Capital letter... 🙂

[@JakeLinux]

@@relaxdmj8769you're welcome! it took me a few tries too, not many packages require a capital when installing.

[@Hiram8866]

Very useful Jake, thanks.

[@JakeLinux]

You're welcome, glad it is helpful.

[@Hiram8866]

@@JakeLinux I've just attempted an install on one of my laptops. Your instructions worked perfectly. I did the local ISO install and didn't have any issues with sudo for the user or having to redo the user password. The only issue I had was no audio - but I installed pavucontrol and all is fine now.

[@JakeLinux]

@@Hiram8866 nice, I'm glad it worked for you.

[@dr.asifakonjee]

nmtui (Network Manager Text User Interface) will work for network setup if someone uses the xfce iso and it is pretty easy to connect to either ethernet or wifi in a physical machine. I love your tutorials and I think it would be great if you make a video about installing void linux in chroot method with btrfs subvolumes. Hyprland wm in void is pretty good despite the fact that it is still in beta version. You can give it a try. Thanks for your videos about Void Linux.

[@JakeLinux]

Hyprland is getting a lot of push lately, I have used hypr but not hyprland, I use nmtui myself and it works great, I always suggest installing that in place of wpa_supplicant, but the install does not come with it, need to have connection before you can install. Glad you are enjoying the videos, I am possibly going to do an install vid with the base iso and in chroot, we will see. Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it

[@dr.asifakonjee]

@@JakeLinux... xfce iso comes with network manager pre installed. You can connect to network in the live environment as well as in the terminal with nmtui. On the other hand, base iso only have dhcpcd and wpa_supplicant. Although wpa_cli is also not that tough but there is some works to be done.

[@JakeLinux]

@@dr.asifakonjee good to know, thanks for the info, I didn't use the Xfce iso when I installed on my personal machine so I was not aware it was on there.

[@abdullahbinnur5592]

I thought Hyprland wasnt in the official repos? How did you get it working

[@_lenn.box_]

ik i'm late, just wanna say this is a great tutorial! subbed

[@JakeLinux]

Thank you for the kind words, welcome to the channel!!

[@angelcastillo9318]

Dwm, it's not the funnest to install, but I personally really like what it can do

[@JakeLinux]

Personally dwm is one of my favorites to install and build. It is a great WM

[@hopelessnormie6448]

Thought you were gonna do a base install, not XFCE install. As you said kinda like Arch clean installation. I never managed to do the base one on a real hardware. Always had to go installing XFCE and then removing stuff from XFCE that I don't use.

[@JakeLinux]

I know, I used the Xfce iso, but I didn't install Xfce, maybe I will do a video using the base iso and possibly one using chroot as well. That way I will cover all the install processes.

[@hopelessnormie6448]

Youre right, my bad, somehow skipped that part

[@greenchilaquiles]

How big should I make my boot partition? Is 1GB too much? I'm only running the one void os

[@JakeLinux]

Usually for a boot partition 512M is good, I go a little overkill and use 1G.

[@greenchilaquiles]

Good news, the installer for the most recent Void linux iso fixed the bug

[@JakeLinux]

Nice

[@BotYoutubevertification]

What VM software are you using?

[@BotYoutubevertification]

I know it's KVM but what is that terminal GUI you are using to create the VMs called

[@JakeLinux]

It's just a script I wrote to build and launch virtual machines.

[@BotYoutubevertification]

@@JakeLinux Oh that's cool I was wondering was it Pyhton?

[@JakeLinux]

@@BotKZbinvertification nope, just good old bash

[@DavidIsFrenchTemp]

it says "ERROR: the mount point for the root filesystem (/) has not yet been configured" what do I do

[@DavidIsFrenchTemp]

ok I managed to install it but now after reboot it says no bootable devices found press F1 to retry boot press F2 for setup utility (it opens bios) press F5 to run onboard diagnostics

[@DavidIsFrenchTemp]

ok I did it all over and followed the exact steps I really hope it works 😓

[@DavidIsFrenchTemp]

it doesn't work and now idk what to do 😭😭😭

[@DavidIsFrenchTemp]

what if I add a BIOS boot?

[@greenchilaquiles]

Sorry to be a pain but what is the correct syntax for symlinking services? The void linux handbook says e.g.: ln -s /etc/sv/ /var/service/ Yours says: ln -s /etc/sv// /var/service Notice the difference in the placement of forward slashes between your video and thr handbook? Does this not matter?

[@JakeLinux]

They are both the same. Either will work.

[@greenchilaquiles]

@@JakeLinux fantastic. thanks man. This stuff isn't terribly obvious to beginners and it means a lot that you go out of your way to respond.

[@JakeLinux]

@@greenchilaquiles happy to, glad you find my videos useful. Heads up, I'm going to bed now so may not respond til tomorrow after this.

[@Shadowzz.]

Hey Jake, I love void Linux but one reason is stopping me from using it. For some reason its kinda slow when opening apps such as Firefox loading web pages I don't know what's the problem. Im currently on arch and never had this issue if your able to could you please help me next time I install void. Great content btw

[@JakeLinux]

I have the same issue, just too lazy to try and track it down for myself. But give me a bit and let me see what I can do.

[@Shadowzz.]

​@@JakeLinuxthanks for the reply! I might reinstall void and also try finding the problem. I don't know if it's something with void itself or something else that can be fixed.

[@JakeLinux]

@@Shadowzz. When you launch it from the terminal, do you get any errors?

[@donaldwilliams6821]

Like any distro it has good and bad points. I found it annoying that I had to update the xpbd-installer before getting updates! How very M$ of them. haha xbpd-install is annoying to type all the time. It is fast but again some simple wrappers to do the soft links would be nice. It's a throw back to the old days haha An OS should make management functions easier. Systemd is annoying for sure but an improvement over the old days or rc files and run levels. it's consistent too which is nice. I miss tab completion for package names like apt has. I'm still experimenting with it. I chose to start with XFCE but I plan on following your videos and see what you do with it. Thank you for the video. Others asked about disk encryption, I noticed their website has info on how to do that as well.

[@JakeLinux]

Yeah I'm not saying it's perfect, just perfect for me. There are definitely things that could be improved on, but that goes.for any distro. Xbps is by far my favorite package.manager it's fast and I like how it is broken out into individual binaries. I have never used disk encryption but yes it is documented, I will have to check it out and poss do a video on that since it seems to be a popular topic.

[@sjahope]

pleas i justwant instal Loniux 😭🙏

[@JakeLinux]

Are you having trouble, what can I do to help?

[@LarsDeTorquemada]

HLWM or Qtile pls 🤗

[@JakeLinux]

Both excellent choices, HLWM is my favorite but I don't think it has many votes right now, Qtile has several and is a great choice as well.

[@Bruces-Eclectic-World]

Hypr LLAP

[@JakeLinux]

You are the only vote for hypr, there are several for hyprland though.

[@Bruces-Eclectic-World]

@@JakeLinux Hahaha... I tried to keep my comment short. I know, all the rage is Hyprland and I'm kinda quit watching them as I'm not interested in wayland at all.I just watch (listen) sorta just for the views.. But each to there own I say... 😄 Herbsluftwm, Dust, Leftwm are others, just saying... Lol LLAP 🖖

[@idjdbrvvskambvvv9007]

this one is lit

[@JakeLinux]

Thanks

[@aesculetum]

KDE Plasma with a tiling plugin.

[@scottb4029]

Herbstluftwm hands down ! ,,,,,,,,,actually spectrwm or bspwm would be fine. I would like a window manager with a bash config file so you could do an in depth config file and creation of our own desktops. I figure bash is the most likely the one language that most of us know.

[@JakeLinux]

@@scottb4029 Herbst is always a welcome request but we will see tomorrow what WM wins.

[@JakeLinux]

I have been curious about bismuth, that's kde tiling feature, right?

[@aesculetum]

@@JakeLinux I am still using Krohnkite, a plugin. I have yet to tinker with bismuth. krohnkite is VERY barebones, but fills my need to tilling in a full DE.

[@scottb4029]

I started messing with sdorfehs........the new rat poison

[@chaoschaos4286]

很有用的视频

[@ByteMeCompletely]

I installed void linux on a proxmox vm. I updated it weekly, until it no longer boots. Now I call it de-void.. 8o)

[@JakeLinux]

Been on void for over a year with regular updates, never had boot failure. So I guess you are probably not a fan.

[@runfromnuke]

hyprland

[@JakeLinux]

May not work too well in VM, due to wayland

[@Fefeengine]

spectrwm

[@JakeLinux]

Nice choice

[@toastedttoest]

i gave up on void cuz wifi refused to work and wpa_supplicant is my new enemy

[@JakeLinux]

Never had a wifi issue, did you run wpa_supplicant only or did you try network manager as well

[@toastedttoest]

@@JakeLinux wpa_supplicant is my new enemy cuz it didnt really work

[@limpa756]

it's 4096 not 4098, I always used to do the same damn thing lmao

[@JakeLinux]

I do too, obviously, I didn't even catch it this time. Thanks for the heads up

[@limpa756]

@@JakeLinux lmao no worries lad, keep up the comfy videos

[@alooy333]

I vote for xmonad

[@JakeLinux]

One of my favorites

[@joshua_lee732]

Sway

[@JakeLinux]

Sway is basically i3 in Wayland, correct?

[@joshua_lee732]

@@JakeLinux yes. But sway is also not i3. There's some differences, but it's not that big a deal.

[@kareemhasan2792]

DWM

[@JakeLinux]

One of the most popular requests and one of my favorites

[@jaynj908]

Q-Tile

[@notFudl]

dwm

[@JakeLinux]

That is looking like it could be the winner

[@elalemanpaisa]

UEFI has secure boot :P

[@wayneferguson14]

qtile

[@JakeLinux]

One of my favorites, it is high on votes so it may be the winner.

[@GeorgeTsiros]

> on VM ABORT ABORT

[@JakeLinux]

No VM for you?

[@masteringlife404]

Exwm 👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️🤌

[@JakeLinux]

Interesting choice.

[@runfromnuke]

bspwm

[@JakeLinux]

Popular choice.

[@celestialbeing4767]

Hyprland

[@JakeLinux]

That was a popular vote, but just short of the win. I will have so e.coverage of it in the future though

[@josereales-mi6rm]

This is not exactly a base install friend

[@JakeLinux]

Not officially, no, but close enough, could have said vanilla, or non gui install, or something a little closer, but base was just easier. semantics.

[@josereales-mi6rm]

Thank u, you also get an idea with the wiki and basic knowledge of Linux

[@bpSdigiMeter]

setup i3 and dwm suckless hahahaa

[@PixelBoar]

The typical guide of a "neckbeard" that don't explain any of the steps, just oh I'll choose "1GB" here and oopsie it is "way too much for a boot partition", so what is the actual right size? Not even a casual Linux user can toggle along. Who is this video for? What I learned is that Void is not worth it, it does not even have a choice of a guided partitioning. I watched both of your videos "install the hard way" and this one. I first was interesting in Void but I'll rather stay on Debian or even use Artix instead. Void what hassle... oh and for the devs good luck getting new users, because your going to need it.

[@JakeLinux]

@@PixelBoarthanks for sharing your thoughts. void is a great distro but it is not for everyone, just like arch isn't for everyone, and Debian isn't for everyone, and Gentoo ism't for everyone. Use what you like and what works for you. By the way, 300-500M is good for a boot partition.

[@PixelBoar]

@@JakeLinux I understand and you're right to some extent, it can never be "good" if there is only two hassle ways in how you choose to install it, as I see it, that means that every other distro that give you a choice is superior i.e. having a "easy" install and guides you through it all even the partitioning part, as well as having a "do it your own hard way". They've put more work and thought into it. Gentoo I can at least understand that it is that way, I don't see Void being that kind of a distro at all. I read about Void it sounded perfect: Minimalism, which I like, something in between "bleeding edge" and "stable"? At least those were the written words. Thanks for the reply and sorry for calling you a "neckbeard".

[@JakeLinux]

No worries, I've been called worse. I am personally working on an installation script for void that will help with partitioning because I do see your point, and others have commented on the installation process as well, which is a shame because in my.opinion it is a great distro choice.

[@PixelBoar]

@@JakeLinux I will give it a go with Void when I got some time to kill. That is awesome and will probably be helpful for many! Subscribed, you're cool.

[@JakeLinux]

@@PixelBoar well thanks I appreciate that, feel free to reach out if you have any issues, I may not always be able to respond immediately, but I try to do what I can.

[@nordmu]

Hello, thanks for the vid! Im trying void in Gnome Boxes and I got the error at the very end of installation (right when it should say "do you want to reboot?") that it failed to install Grub in Boot. So I tried again but the Boot partition with Bios not EFI and it worked but now, everytime when I boot I get 2 Errors: /dev/vda2: clean, 20119/917504 files, 472466/3670016 blocks fsck.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31) open: No such file or directory /dev/vda3: recovering journal /dev/vda3; clean, 17/2293760 files, 221828/9174528 blocks after entering "exit" a second error comes and then after another "exit" i can start to log in.

[@JakeLinux]

How are your partitions set up for the bios install and what file system are they

[@chuckmuckamuck8001]

DWM

[@JakeLinux]

This one is looking promising, lots of votes.