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sOn-Os/README.md

sOnOs

Plain Arch Linux. Nine questions to install.
An operating system for developers and gamers.

Download the ISO Status: beta Base: Arch Linux

sOnOs installs a desktop, gaming support with Steam and Vulkan, the NVIDIA driver and, if you want them, complete development toolchains. Underneath is a plain Arch Linux that stays compatible with the official repositories and the AUR.

Projects
sOnOs The live ISO: boots into the installer, and doubles as a rescue system with disk, network and recovery tools.
sOninstall The installer. Asks nine questions, then sets up the whole system. A fork of archinstall.

Nine questions

Language · keyboard layout · username · password · time zone · desktop environment · NVIDIA driver · development tools · disk

Everything else comes with sensible defaults: NetworkManager, PipeWire, Bluetooth, zram swap and systemd-boot. A summary is shown before anything is written to the disk.

What you get

  • Gaming: Steam, GameMode and Vulkan drivers for the GPU in the machine, including the 32-bit ones Steam needs
  • Graphics: NVIDIA's open kernel driver nvidia-open for GTX 16, RTX 20 and newer, open-source drivers for everything else
  • Desktop: KDE Plasma, GNOME, COSMIC, Hyprland and more, each with its everyday apps
  • Apps: Firefox in your language, VLC, fastfetch, btop, zsh and Neovim
  • Development (optional, about 10 GB): GCC, Clang, Visual Studio Code, Docker, Arduino and AVR tools, and over 30 languages, from Rust, Go and Python to Haskell and Zig

An installation takes about 7 GB, or about 17 GB with the development tools.

Get started

  1. Download the latest ISO from Releases. Large ISOs come split into parts (sOnOs.iso.7z.001, .002, ...); download all of them and extract the first one with 7-Zip.
  2. Write it to a USB drive with Ventoy, balenaEtcher or dd.
  3. Boot from the USB. The installer starts by itself.

Contribute

sOnOs is in beta. Bug reports, feedback and pull requests are welcome, and so are new translations of the installer, which is already available in more than 40 languages.

Report a bug · Installer source · ISO profile

sOnOs is an independent distribution, not affiliated with the Arch Linux project. By aOnurTheDev.

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