This is going to be primarily opinion based post but I want to talk about a shakeup that has happened. I have uninstalled Artix from all of my computers and have instead swapped them to Void Linux. This is the first time I have changed Linux distros in about 3/4 years and was done with a heavy heart as having to setup a new system is always a pain. Regardless I have been using void linux for about 2-3 months and I am finding it a much better experience than Artix, and I want to discuss the reasons why below.

I’m currently working on developing an implementation of the Concurrent Atomistic-Continuum method using C++ and CUDA to accelerate calculations. A need arose to use valgrind for debugging some memory issues. I currently run Artix Linux and it turns out that both Artix Linux and Arch Linux have fully removed all debug packages from their repositories and have swapped over to a debuginfod style system. On my system, said debuginfod was working with gdb but not with valgrind. In particular I was missing the debug symbols for glibc which prevented valgrind from working at all. I had to try a few things before I got it working so I want to share how I did. I also want to mention an issue I ran into if any guys from Artix Linux ever end up reading this post.