Freedom & Simplicity — an operating system should feel like open air.
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IdealOS is an Arch Linux–based operating system built for everything you do — work, study, create, connect, and yes, play. Every common hardware driver ships preinstalled and working: AMD, Intel and NVIDIA graphics, Wi-Fi, audio, firmware. Boot it, log in, live.
🇹🇷 IdealOS, yalnızca oyun için değil — çalışmak, üretmek, öğrenmek ve eğlenmek dahil her şey için tasarlanan Arch tabanlı bir işletim sistemidir; sürücüler kutudan çıktığı gibi çalışır. Proje dili İngilizce'dir.
For thirty years, Linux has been the most powerful operating system in the world — and the one that asks the most of its users. Power went to those willing to fight for it: hunt drivers, read wikis, fix what should never have been broken.
IdealOS exists to end that trade-off. We believe the next era of Linux is one where freedom does not cost simplicity — where the same system that compiles your code and renders your video also runs your games at full speed and just works on your grandmother's old laptop. Gaming is where we prove our fluency, not where we stop:
- 💼 Work — office suite, printing, video calls: ready on first boot
- 🎨 Create — one click away from image, video and audio production tools
- 🧑💻 Build — a rolling Arch base with the full power of pacman and the AUR underneath
- 🏫 Learn — light enough for old classroom machines, complete enough to need nothing else
- 🎮 Play — the hardest hardware test there is; if games run flawlessly, everything runs
One system, every purpose, zero driver hunts. That is the era we intend to start — and it's why our story is Freedom & Simplicity.
| 🧩 Drivers out of the box | Mesa + Vulkan for AMD, Intel and NVIDIA (nouveau/NVK), Broadcom Wi-Fi (DKMS), sof/alsa firmware, Intel & AMD microcode, fwupd |
| 🎮 Born for gaming | Steam, Lutris, Wine, GameMode, MangoHud and Gamescope preinstalled — Windows games via Proton |
| 🌊 Simple by design | KDE Plasma (Wayland) with tuned defaults, a branded Calamares installer and a Welcome app with one-click apps |
| 🔄 Always current | Rolling Arch base: the newest kernel, Mesa and drivers without waiting for a "next version" |
| IdealOS (default wallpaper) | Horizon Dawn |
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IdealOS is in BETA. Fresh ISOs are built by CI:
- Go to Actions → Build IdealOS ISO and open the newest green run.
- Download the
idealos-isoartifact (~3.6 GB, requires a GitHub account). - Write it to USB with Ventoy/balenaEtcher, or boot it in VMware/VirtualBox (UEFI recommended).
- The live session logs in automatically — click Install IdealOS on the desktop when you're ready.
Once v0.5 ships, Developer Preview ISOs will be distributed through the IdealOS Developer Program (free sign-up) — see the release model.
You never need to re-download an ISO to stay current. Installed systems update entirely through pacman:
sudo pacman -SyuArch packages, drivers and the kernel come from the Arch mirrors; IdealOS's own components (branding, Welcome app, themes) come from the built-in [idealos] repository — all in the same command, downloading only what changed.
IdealOS is identified by its channel — BETA now, and the full release later — with no codenames. The precise version number is shown in the changelog after each update. See the release model.
The most valuable contribution right now is hardware testing — boot IdealOS on your machine and report what works and what doesn't. Code, packaging, artwork and translations are equally welcome: see CONTRIBUTING.md.
If IdealOS interests you, a ⭐ helps more people discover it.
git clone https://github.com/csycode/idealos.git && cd idealos
./scripts/build-local.sh # needs Docker; or use the GitHub Actions workflowThe build copies the official archiso releng profile, applies the IdealOS overlay (profile/) and runs mkarchiso. Calamares is built from AUR into a local repo during the build. Details: build/build.sh.
Build system, configuration and docs: GPL-3.0. Brand artwork: CC-BY-SA-4.0. Third-party components keep their own licenses. "IdealOS" and the Open Horizon logo are trademarks — derived distributions must use their own branding.