"Odyssey holds a balance that's unique in the GNU/Linux landscape. It carries the essence of Void's purist Unix philosophy — its stable rolling-release model — and refines it into a ready-to-use experience, a verifiable chain of trust, and a coherent aesthetic. The first polished no-systemd distribution: optimized, customized, simple yet powerful, privacy- and security-oriented."
The code is also not immediately available, which makes claims towards any chain of trust somewhat dubious.
And I'm not sure what purist really means in this context, and how a rolling release is - or even implies - inherently "pure" Unix. If systemd is the hill to die on, Void is active and supported.
Usually I default to encouragement; I don't mean to put any water on OP's fire, yet there's a whole lot of grand words in these essays. And really not a lot of explaining why any of this would make me switch from, for example, Arch, or that explain which problems are being solved.
high-volume, highly detailed writing with a confusing sense of grandiosity for something people haven't yet heard of. i'm sure it's great, but a lot of this smells like LLM.
Website design is borderline unreadable and the copy just drips LLM slop. This is your first interaction with potential users. Please put some care into accessibility and originality (just write like we are chatting). Your current website is very off-putting.
thanks ill check it out. i switch between void and artix already so this is a pretty cool idea. i usually advise new people to use mint but i feel guilty moving them from microsoft windows to microsoft systemd. maybe this will develop into a better option.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 50.4 ms ] thread> This distribution is maintained by one person.
I'm sorry if this is too negative, but I give it less than 12 months before it's abandoned.
Maintaining a linux distro gets very boring after a while.
The code is also not immediately available, which makes claims towards any chain of trust somewhat dubious.
And I'm not sure what purist really means in this context, and how a rolling release is - or even implies - inherently "pure" Unix. If systemd is the hill to die on, Void is active and supported.
Usually I default to encouragement; I don't mean to put any water on OP's fire, yet there's a whole lot of grand words in these essays. And really not a lot of explaining why any of this would make me switch from, for example, Arch, or that explain which problems are being solved.
Anyone actually running Void on real hardware? What's runit like?