25 may 2021
Void is still working well. Have some tricky visual glitches going on with XFCE4, but it's nothing that gets in the way or causes any problems outside of being aesthetically off (and frankly, we could build an aesthetic around that). The power manager is ignoring some of our settings, which is the most annoying bug and the only one that actually causes minor issues. The less critical issues are that our cursor displays as the default outside of GTK applications, and a visual glitch upon waking from suspend (fullscreen rainbow noise with some color distortion from the desktop). Luckily the noise goes away very quickly and we can log back in without issues, but it's perplexing. It only started happening after we installed all our applications, so one of those is probably to blame. The mouse cursor happened from install onwards, and we're guessing there's an issue in a config file somewhere from Void. It's getting reported to someone if we can figure out what's causing it or put together a decent bug report with what we can find. Outside of those few issues, no computer problems and somehow our internet download speed almost doubled. Every other distro we've used has had noticeably slower download speeds than we're supposed to get even after we intervened and got improvements on the base speed, so it's a nice surprise! The package manager is also fantastic and- dare we say it- may even be better than pacman. We do miss the AUR though. We have heard that it's easy to compile packages on Void- haven't looked into it yet because we haven't needed to, but it's good to know.
Started building a static website for a friend today! They're liking it so far, so here's to a new side project. Website making is fun.