Version 2.17: add wallpaper carousel as a modern alternative to the wallpaper selector, open it with SUPER + W or with the new button to the left of the search field in the wallpaper selector; toggle floating for all windows of the workspace (SUPER + SHIFT + T) now arranges the floating windows in a grid with a 16px gap inside the free area of the monitor (respecting status bar and dock) instead of keeping their tiled or full screen size; add 'Window Mode' switch to the sidebar to select the window mode - off uses Tiling (default), on uses Floating; the packages listed in setup, packages, packages (default apps - Kitty, Neovim, Nautilus, GNOME Text Editor, Firefox) are installed with the initial installation only and not with updates, this enables a safe replacement of selected default apps, e.g. after uninstalling Firefox and switching to another browser, an update will not install it again; add mute toggle to the volume icon of the sidebar; add audio output menu to the volume module of the status bar....
Omarchy 4.5 is the first big feature release since Quattro, and it's a whopper - over 740 pull requests merged from more than 180 contributors in just twelve weeks. It now offers a traditional desktop mode next to the tiling default. You can install it natively on a M1/M2/M3/Neo MacBooks. And it speaks 50 languages. And a gazillion other features, fixes and improvements. Already on Omarchy? Run Update, Omarchy. New machine? Grab it here. Super + L now cycles any workspace between tiling, scrolling and floating. On a floating workspace, every window gets a titlebar in your theme's colors, and a dock shows your pinned apps, everything that's running, and a grid of every app installed. Drag to reorder or pin, right click for more, and Super + M minimizes a window down to the dock. This is a wonderful on-ramp for anyone arriving from macOS or Windows who isn't ready to go all-in on tiling yet. Or for anyone who just wants one workspace where windows can sprawl. Mix and match per workspace, and the bar shows which layout each one uses.
Bazzite is now based on Fedora 45. GNOME 51.1 and KDE 6.8.2. Updated OGC kernels to 7.2.15 and 6.18.60 for NVIDIA LTS images. Mesa 26.2.6 (editor note - the package manager reports Mesa is at version 26.2.4). Latest and greatest InputPlumber. Optional gaming networking optimization via bpftune and bpfrag services. ROCM OpenCL is now used over Mesa OpenCL on all non-NVIDIA images. XWaylandVideoBridge has been removed, fixing an entire class of bugs on our KDE images. Acer Predator Atlas 8 initial support - InputPlumber support, Quick Access Menu tap action, and M1/M2 rear-button mappings from. Ally X20 support lands on stable. A fix for a reported custom TDP issue is still pending on our testing branch but will hit stable in the very near future. Logitech TrueForce wheel support - additional racing wheels now supported out of the box. Btrfs maintenance now available from the Btrfs Assistant GUI.
RakuOS 45 'Chojiro' is here. It moves RakuOS to Fedora 45, and it brings the biggest change to how RakuOS handles your software since we introduced rum - package layers. If you're on the stable channel, your next update moves you to RakuOS 45. RakuOS 45 is the first RakuOS release with a code name. Chojiro is named after Chōjirō, the founder of raku ware, the Japanese pottery RakuOS takes its name from. From now on, every major RakuOS release will carry a code name, each referencing raku ware or origami. You'll see it in About pages, the boot menu and tools like Fastfetch - 'RakuOS KDE 45 (Chojiro)'. RakuOS is fully atomic again, without compromises. The writable layer made RakuOS 43 and 44 a hybrid - an atomic image with a changeable /usr on top. On RakuOS 45, /usr is read-only, and every change to it goes through rum as one transaction that applies completely or not at all, and can be rolled back.
NebiOS X 10.3 anniversary update is out as a stable release. The desktop has been reworked from the ground up, there's a new first-run setup and welcome screen, you can type in Japanese, Chinese and Korean, and NebiOS now runs on Apple Silicon as an experimental release. The desktop has been reworked from the ground up: control center has been redesigned, there's search in settings and it takes you straight to the setting it finds, the window now scales to your screen and can be resized; top panel - the focused app's icon and name, with a window menu next to it (on top, sticky, immersive mode, pin to the utility panel, minimize, maximize, close), it turns black when a client touches it and transparent when the desktop is focused; quick settings and OSD - a new dark look, a snapshot is animated instead of the live interface, so they stay smooth under load; launcher - opens and scrolls faster, file search uses a real index and icons load asynchronously; widgets- system monitor was rewritten (GPU, network, battery, disk, swap and temperatures, GPU usage on AMD and on NVIDIA with the proprietary driver)....
Official ISO release 2026-11. Second official release for 2026. Post feedback at the forum announcement thread. Main release notes: Plasma has switched to Wayland and all related configuration for the Plasma and Community-Qt editions has been appropriately updated; user services have matured and been fully implemented for OpenRC and dinit, they can also be enabled for runit and s6 via userspawn, however, for the time being, this task is left to the end user; currently, only Plasma has full Wayland support, other desktop environments are in various stages of implementing it, but not yet ready for daily use - therefore, even if a Wayland session appears on the login manager, it probably will not work well if at all; the Plasma and Xfce gaming editions are still in beta status and shall remain in the weekly downloads section for further testing.
Immutable Mode with transactionally updating a system with a read-only root filesystem is a big change for this release. Users who know Leap Micro will recognize it right away, because it is the same approach, now integrated directly into Leap. Leap 16.1 in Immutable Mode replaces Leap Micro, and there will be no Leap Micro 6.3 or 7.0. Users simply boot the regular Leap 16.1 install image and select Immutable Mode in Agama. Each update with transactional-update creates a new snapshot, and a single command rolls the system back if something goes wrong. Additional software can be consumed through containers with Podman or Distrobox or through Flatpak on the desktop. Leap Micro users will still feel at home. The familiar preconfigured appliances are available in the alternative downloads section at get.opensuse.org. These include a self-install image recommended for USB installations, images for KVM/Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware, Harvester and cloud environments, and a fully encrypted raw disk image.
This release presents the new Linux kernel 7.3.1 as well as the new version 156.0.8078.47-1 of the web browser Google-Chrome-Stable. In addition, among other things, Starbuntu has completely rewritten its installation routine so that this program runs much more user-friendly and reports every step going to be accomplished.
The Lunduke Computer Operating System (LCOS) version 1.0, a Linux-compatible system for desktop computers, has officially shipped and is available to download, for free, for everyone. 'LCOS fixes the biggest problems plaguing operating systems today,' stated Bryan Lunduke, King of LCOS. 'Desktop computers are being attacked with garbage that none of us actually want - ID verification and data collection. Forced online accounts. Bloated, slow software. AI features shoehorned into simple text editors. Weaponized Codes of Conduct. And, of course, weird, woke politics. LCOS has none of that nonsense. Just great software.' The Lunduke Computer Operating System 1.0 is built from the best desktop software available: an LCOS-specific fork of the Linux kernel (built with no unnecessary Rust modules); high quality components, from non-woke, non-discriminatory, meritocracy-focused developers, such as: the XLibre X11 server; the Devuan project; the Brave Origin web browser; custom-built utilities focusing on speed, simplicity and a classic desktop computer style.
This release is mostly about stability. All of our runtime code (initrd, rc scripts, porteux-scripts and installer) went through an in-depth review, fixing many bugs and making things safer. The kernel also got some performance work: faster zstd decompression, page cache reads without locking, and a lighter file open path. These help with module loading and general disk access. New in Xfce: you can now drag files from a window in the background straight into another one, without changing focus, just like on Windows. Fixed Chrome and LibreWolf crashing; fixed cheatcodes not working when porteux.cfg was edited on Windows; fixed modules activated through a symlink not releasing their loop device; fixed modules showing twice in the Others section of PorteuX Modules application; fixed leftover processes at shutdown not being killed before unmounting; fixed virtual machines not booting from virtio storage....