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.
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.
It's Void with GUIs around runit and xbps. The problem being attempted is that Void is not very accessible to users new to Linux. This is pretty clear from the website.
I closed the page and gave up figuring out what this was about because of the poor contrast ratio and tiny font.
[edit] apparently the contrast ratio is technically okay. But this is one of those cases where raw contrast ratio isn't actually a good measure of accessibility. Just because some text has 5.92:1 contrast ratio, doesn't mean that at 11px font-size it's legible.
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.
"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."
At first I thought this excerpt was meant to warn people off without directly alleging AI authorship, but I guess that's less likely since I see you're also the submitter
I got the same impression especially from reading the about page. And it wasn't the em dash this time but the triplet of one word sentences.
But just to comment directly on it and offer something constructive I appreciate a non systemd option that looks nice and hope this gets enough of a user base that it counts as votes in favor of that kind of paradigm.
I have my own non-systemd distro so won't be using yours, but wanted to give you props for your hard work and for keeping the no-systemd flag flying. They want to obsolete us? Nope, we'll obsolete them.
> Odyssey is Void with three extra packages
> 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.
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.
I understand what it is. I'm just wondering why.
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.
It's Void with GUIs around runit and xbps. The problem being attempted is that Void is not very accessible to users new to Linux. This is pretty clear from the website.
Don't you want to make the letters even smaller? I almost get crossed eyes trying to read the features.
I closed the page and gave up figuring out what this was about because of the poor contrast ratio and tiny font.
[edit] apparently the contrast ratio is technically okay. But this is one of those cases where raw contrast ratio isn't actually a good measure of accessibility. Just because some text has 5.92:1 contrast ratio, doesn't mean that at 11px font-size it's legible.
LLMs don't notice this. Gray-on-black-small-letters. An immediate close the tab for me.
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.
It's unlikely that someone who understands this well enough to see its value wouldn't be completely comfortable with a terminal interface.
"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."
At first I thought this excerpt was meant to warn people off without directly alleging AI authorship, but I guess that's less likely since I see you're also the submitter
I got the same impression especially from reading the about page. And it wasn't the em dash this time but the triplet of one word sentences.
But just to comment directly on it and offer something constructive I appreciate a non systemd option that looks nice and hope this gets enough of a user base that it counts as votes in favor of that kind of paradigm.
>The first polished no-systemd distribution
Surely not. There were no polished Debians before 2014?
I have my own non-systemd distro so won't be using yours, but wanted to give you props for your hard work and for keeping the no-systemd flag flying. They want to obsolete us? Nope, we'll obsolete them.