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Fig. 01 — Overview

Fast by design.
Minimal by default.
Built for speed.

Norix-OS is a Wayland-native, performance-first immutable Linux. Niri WM paired with Noctalia shell — preconfigured, opinionated, and fully customizable. Ghostty as your terminal. No flatpak store preloaded. Just a fast, clean base ready for whatever you throw at it.

Download → View on GitHub
ghostty — norix-os
norix@localhost:~$ uname -a
Linux norix-os 6.12.0-ferret #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux
norix@localhost:~$ rpm -q norix-os
norix-os-1.0.0-1.ferret.x86_64
norix@localhost:~$ █
Fig. 02 — Technical Specification

What's in the box.

Wayland-native from the ground up. Preconfigured so you can start fast, customizable so you never hit a wall.

BASE
Mink-OS — Fedora + bootc, atomic, image-based, OCI-native
INCLUDED
WINDOW MANAGER
Niri — scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor, fast and minimal
INCLUDED
SHELL / ENV
Noctalia — sleek, minimal Wayland desktop shell, preconfigured
INCLUDED
LOGIN MANAGER
SDDM — fast, Wayland-ready display manager
INCLUDED
TERMINAL
Ghostty — GPU-accelerated, native feel, fast startup
INCLUDED
KEYBINDS & CONFIG
Preconfigured sane defaults — fully customizable, nothing locked down
INCLUDED
GUI FLATPAK STORE
None preinstalled — install your preferred store via flatpak
NOT PRESENT
NON-FREE CODECS
Built in — H.264, H.265, AAC, and friends, no manual setup
INCLUDED
OUT-OF-TREE KMODS
Ferret kmod repo layered in — broad hardware support out of the box
INCLUDED
V4L2LOOPBACK
Built in — virtual video device support, no manual DKMS needed
INCLUDED
ZFS
OpenZFS support baked in — ready to use, no post-install steps
INCLUDED
NVIDIA VARIANT
Separate image with proprietary NVIDIA drivers pre-layered
SEPARATE IMAGE
Fig. 03 — Desktop Preview

See it in action.

Norix-OS desktop preview
Fig. 04 — Download

Pick your image.

Two variants. Same fast Wayland core. Choose based on your hardware.

01

Norix-OS Standard

Mesa · open drivers · universal

STABLE
VERSION1.0.0
ARCHx86_64
SIZE~1.5 GB
FORMAT.iso
SHA256
— placeholder — checksum will appear here on release —
Download Standard →
02

Norix-OS NVIDIA

Proprietary NVIDIA drivers pre-layered

NVIDIA
VERSION1.0.0
ARCHx86_64
SIZE~1.9 GB
FORMAT.iso
SHA256
— placeholder — checksum will appear here on release —
Download NVIDIA →
Fig. 03a — Verify your download
you@host:~/Downloads$ sha256sum norix-os-1.0.0-x86_64.iso
# compare output against the SHA256 above