• moendopi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 hours

    Interesting, but why? Also, how did the install go? My singular time with Void was on x86_64 and was unsuccessful. Three attempts, no luck getting it to boot. What’s it like on an RPi?

    • heliotrope@retrofed.comEnglish
      11 hours

      Well, I also run it on x86_64. On my laptop, I used the ZFSBootMenu instructions and it’s been running smoothly for over a week now (although I don’t have any swap, as ZFS doesn’t support it or something). I have had issues before, but I assume I must have skipped a step somewhere or fat-fingered an important command. This installation, however, is perfect. I also got Secure Boot to work, which was nice.

      As for the Pi, it also seems to be going well, but it’s only been installed for a few hours at this point. This installation was a lot simpler: I just wrote the image to my NVMe drive, shrank the root partition, and created a third partition for use as an encrypted /home. fsck sometimes gets annoyed, as it uses a weird block size, but apart from that it works just fine. Performance is good, LabWC is straightforward, runit is simple, and XBPS is awesome. Mullvad Browser and Tor Browser don’t exist on Linux aarch64 yet, but there’s an unofficial Librewolf repo that I’m using.

      If you were wondering about systemd, well, they have a permissive AI policy and a few changes made by Claude, which doesn’t sit right with me. Maybe I’m overreacting, but regardless it does no harm to use alternatives.

    • wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
      11 hours

      First, I thought you’re having an ultra wide display, before I’ve read your comment and then noticed the bar to be smaller.

      • heliotrope@retrofed.comEnglish
        11 hours

        Well, I do have two displays. I meant the image itself is fuzzy (at least, on my end).