Arch, void or something else entirely?

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  • ublue

    A familiar(ish) Ubuntu desktop for Fedora Silverblue.

  • It's more complicated than that, however that would be out of scope for this comment. Though, Fedora is by no means unstable, far from it even. Its immutable offerings (and related projects like uBlue are some of the most sturdy Linux distros out there.

  • lpf-spotify-client

    lpf-spotify-client - nonfree

  • Possibly related to Nvidia. Did you try it on X11? Nvidia drivers from RPM Fusion might make a difference here.

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  • void-packages

    The Void source packages collection

  • It does not mention on this page that if you install "xinit" and "xorg-server", you will still be left without xorg's drivers, namely "xf86-video-amdgpu" or xf86-input-libinput. This, so far as I can see, is not addressed in the template files for either of these packages as well. What the result here is that if you were to then install a desktop environment or window manager (having not yet installed the aforementioned drivers), you would simply not be able to interact with the spawned desktop session. The documentation mentions "xf86-video-amdgpu", but "xf86-input-libinput" which is equally needed for a functional system in the vast majority of workstations running xorg.

  • void-docs

    mdbook source for docs.voidlinux.org

  • the final criticism i have for void is the way they have decided to host their docs; as this void-docs. This bottlenecks the possible amount of expertise you'd receive from your doc writers by ensuring that only those who want to learn git are able to contribute to your docs. this, to me, is very inadequate if your intent is to have documentation written by those who are very good at docwriting but not necessarily maneuvering in version control systems like git. i'm not sure what the impetus was to move away from the traditional wiki model, but this from my perspective is a failure.

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