Heads up folks, just learned about a new (almost certainly vibecoded) Linux distro called Odyssey which claims to be "Unix for human beings".

https://odysseylinux.org/

The creator is, apparently, anonymous. The website is frankly impossible to read without squinting, and contains a boat load of AI images and meandering manifesto-y language about how this distro is meant to solve all of the ills of non-systemd Linux. It's, to my knowledge, void Linux with a bunch of default desktops and hackeresque theming.

The download page inexplicably tried to open an xdg portal when I visited it and launched a full page of text asking for donations which, because of the low page contrast, made making a payment look mandatory? The website is this super moody red-on-black with white monotype situation with about twenty different font sizes: is impossible for humans to read.

https://odysseylinux.org/why.html

The " why" page is especially interesting

> so, is Odyssey AI generated? AI slop?

> A Linux distribution is an extremely complex thing. I am sure an AI can produce good programs, but as things stand it cannot create a distribution. You do not open ChatGPT and tell it: build me a distribution. It is human work. Design, architecture, knowledge of the system and of the code. AI amplifies that knowledge and speeds the work up immensely: its computing power, the way it reads and holds thousands of lines of code, is beyond question. So why should I not use it?

So, in essence: yes. It is slop.

Stay frosty folks.

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