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Karen Sargsyan
Karen Sargsyan

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Void Linux + GNOME = 🤎 ️ ️

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ADe

Created account just to like this. Thank you for this guide!

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Alex Lohr

I love VoidLinux, but prefer xfce. One thing that for me worth mentioning is the void-packages repository on GitHub that allows you to comfortably create your own packages in a secure, simple and repeatable way. This makes VoidLinux as hackable as Gentoo, without breaking the comfort of binary packages and the freshness of a rolling releases distro.

Also, you might find some of the packages in pull requests of that repo that are otherwise unavailable. I myself have a PR for lapce open, a fast rust-based IDE in early development, though mostly usable.

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Karen Sargsyan

I also prefer xfce as de just was curious how void will go with gnome.
Maybe I will add void-packages part later to the article thanks for the suggestion.

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greentip • Edited

Joined just to thank you for this effort. Works like a charm. Void + Gnome = Woohoo

Edit: for anybody wanting this to work on a Raspberry Pi (mine is an rpi 4b) and using only the mesa drivers (for wayland), uncomment/add dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d in /boot/config.txt

It runs every bit as well as the native RPi OS and is Void + Gnome!

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Debajyati Dey

Thank you so much for this guide!
I also love void linux!
But I prefer xfce.
WhatEver, Ton of InForMation, Thank you and a bigg thumbs up!

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Sasha

This post is essential to all people installing Gnome on Void Linux. Super easy to follow and perfectly divided per sections