Vostok Linux
vostoklinux.org
Void-based Linux with a human face...

Has anyone tried this? I’m looking to switch to Void and this looks peachy. Has everything I want from a distro: as barebones as possible, so I can customize it myself.

  • atomicStan@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    From their wiki:

    What Makes Vostok Different? Void Linux is powerful — but it requires effort to set up. Vostok removes that barrier entirely:

    • KDE Plasma out of the box — a full, polished desktop environment ready from the first boot
    • Everything pre-configured — codecs, drivers, browser, fonts — all included
    • Vostok Repository — hundreds of additional packages not available in the official Void repos (Brave, Figma, and more)
    • Beginner-friendly, expert-approved — simple enough for newcomers, powerful enough for professionals
    • 100% free — no subscriptions, no telemetry, no corporate strings
    • One developer, one vision — transparent, independent, and built with love for the community
    • Open to everyone — developers, designers, gamers, students, sysadmins — Vostok is for all of them

    The em dashes definitely gives me LLM-vibes. Regardless, it mostly comes over as Void Linux with KDE Plasma and some onboarding. And I suppose they have their own repository. Furthermore, I think it’s a very new distro as their Github activities only go two months back.

    To OP: Why would you use this over (some) other Void derivatives? Secondly, as you state

    I can customize it myself

    Why even bother with any of these to begin with?

    • hornedfiend@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Truthfully, it’s because I’ve become increasingly lazy lately,but I’ve been looking for a reason to move away from systemd ,as I am not a fan of hard dependencies like that anymore - been using arch for years and am looking to try other init system to sort of break away from monopolies.

      You’re right of course,however, I find the Void documentation very lacking TBH and getting a minimal install with plasma and pipewire so what I need.

      Edit: thanks for the recommendations. I completely forgot to check distrowatch.

      • atomicStan@programming.dev
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        1 day ago

        You’re welcome. If you insist, I’d definitely grab a more established derivative. Preferably one that pre-dates GPT-3.5.

        • hornedfiend@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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          24 hours ago

          i actually ended up installing vanilla Void. I messed it up before with seating and  bash_profiles, but following strictly their documentation, it took me  10 min to get  a fully xdg-portals powered system with plasma.

    • Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 days ago

      The entire text on the website has common LLM patterns, so does the linked githubs repos readme file. The website itself also looks very similar to other vibecoded UIs I’ve seen.

      I’m not saying this is definetly slop, but I wouldn’t trust this to be properly maintained either way.