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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    6 months 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?