Description
A good-looking, low-maintenance Linux desktop usually means fiddling with desktop environments and configs for hours. LordOS is based on Debian but ships a desktop it wrote itself: a display server and Wayland compositor in C, and a React UI engine on QuickJS, so what you install is a complete desktop.
Privacy is the default. Installed apps are sandboxed out of the box, and the camera, microphone, files and network all ask before use. Chromium, Firefox, and GTK and Qt apps still run, on 64-bit PCs and on the Raspberry Pi 5.
Own desktop: The display server and Wayland compositor are written in C, the interface is drawn by a React engine, and it all sits on Debian.
Sandboxed by default: Native apps are isolated from each other, with camera, microphone, file and network access asked first.
Runs existing apps: Chromium, Firefox, GTK and Qt apps run alongside the native ones.
Hardware: amd64 PCs, and light enough to run smoothly on a Raspberry Pi 5 (arm64).
License: MIT, with downloads, docs and a paper on the website.
Privacy is the default. Installed apps are sandboxed out of the box, and the camera, microphone, files and network all ask before use. Chromium, Firefox, and GTK and Qt apps still run, on 64-bit PCs and on the Raspberry Pi 5.
Features
Own desktop: The display server and Wayland compositor are written in C, the interface is drawn by a React engine, and it all sits on Debian.
Sandboxed by default: Native apps are isolated from each other, with camera, microphone, file and network access asked first.
Runs existing apps: Chromium, Firefox, GTK and Qt apps run alongside the native ones.
Hardware: amd64 PCs, and light enough to run smoothly on a Raspberry Pi 5 (arm64).
License: MIT, with downloads, docs and a paper on the website.
