Vostok Linux based on Void
2026-03-19 20:10 UTC
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@atomicStan@programming.dev 2026-03-19 21:47
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?
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@SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 2026-03-19 22:15
It looks interesting, Void is very solid but it miss some package and I’m not a fan of flatpaks, also the focus on KDE is nice. [edit] I searched thru packages page: a lot of useful stuff missing
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@capuccino@lemmy.world 2026-03-19 23:12
I’ve been using Void Linux the last 2 years and I didn’t knew that it had derived distros. Amazing!
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@drhoopoe@lemmy.sdf.org 2026-03-19 23:41
If you want “as barebones as possible” then wouldn’t you better off with stock Void? It’s nice and barebones straight out of the box.
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@nil@piefed.ca 2026-03-20 00:41
I would just use void, but I love the logo
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@onlooker@lemmy.ml 2026-03-20 09:44
…and independently maintained by one developer for the entire world… This makes me uneasy. Hats off to them and best of luck to their endeavours, but I would still rather choose Void simply due to the fact that there’s a team behind the project as opposed to one individual. Something happens to them and then what?
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@LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2026-03-20 11:12
Eh, I don’t see the point. It seems Void already has a TUI installer you can use, then afterwards you just gotta Install your DE of choice. Void is a smaller distro, and as such you might not find as much help for it online compared to other distros, so I think think it’d be best for you to use it directly and do things the “manual” way first so you can gain familiarity with its inner-workings, so you can better serve yourself/fix issues you encounter. Jumping directly into a “niche of a niche” distro that does everything for you doesn’t sound like a good idea if you don’t already have familiarity with the base system, IMO.
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@artwork@lemmy.world 2026-03-19 20:18
This is not just a Linux distro. It’s a satellite drifting through the universe of code and possibility - for you, for everyone, forever free… Built with ❤️ by one developer, for the entire world. Source: https://vostoklinux.org/about I believe that the developer must be: https://github.com/davidivashevich