I never expected to manage to live without the AUR… and yet here I am. The xbps package manager is great. Yes, I couldn’t manage to get VSCodium since it ain’t available in the Void repos, and also I’m apparently way too stupid to build it from source. Everything else was working great. I finally got CopyQ back. Yes, I haven’t configured it yet since my old config was based on Rofi, and now I fully moved to suckless’s dmenu, which looks awesome, by the way. The thing I loved the most about xbps is how minimal it is. You either find the package you’re looking for or you don’t, very straightforward. Unlike my last experience with pacman (at least in Artix). Also, runit works a lot better here. It is as if it was built for Void. I mean, I’m streaming music in Firefox from lofi.cafe with a tmux server running, and FocusWriter where I’m writing this blog right now, and my RAM usage is less than 1 gig out of 4 gigs. Just how crazy is that? I seriously can’t wait to try Minecraft in this, and I’m quite sure the experience is gonna be awesome.
Also, today I tried to go back and try to attend some online courses about backend development and… I couldn’t find a good one. It is mostly my fault since I really don’t know which one to choose: Rust or Golang. I mean… Golang is easy with an awesome active community and all but… Rust, even though it is tough and such a pain to master, is still Rust. Rust is way awesomer, and I can do a hell of a lot of things with it. For example, I can learn the Tauri framework, which is gonna help me a lot for school, while learning Golang will only be helpful for APIs and web scraping stuff, and I’ll probably end up leaving Gruvbox for Catppuccino. Don’t get me wrong, they’re both just as good and all, but that is technically the problem. And not to mention the fact that until now I still haven’t learned TypeScript or any JS framework, and I’m still using SQLite to manage databases. Ughhh. Anyways, this is it for tonight. Take care of yourself, and see you next time, farewell.
Seth.