A seamless blend of all Linux distributions.
Note: blendOS is based on Arch Linux, but you can use any app from any of the distros supported by blendOS, or even install a desktop environment from any of the distros and use the distros in standalone sessions.
What you get with blendOS
- Immutable: blendOS is an immutable operating system. This means your filesystem is read-only, thus resulting in stable experience.
- Apps from any distribution: You can use any of the hundreds of thousands of apps from any of the distributions supported by blendOS (the creation of containers is managed by distrobox).
- Use any package manager directly: You can use apt/apt-get, dnf/yum, pacman and yay all together from the blendOS shell, just like you'd use them on their native distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch respectively).
- DE support: GNOME's the officially supported desktop environment, but you can also choose other desktop environments such as KDE Plasma and XFCE at the time of installation (for users who're familar with the blendOS setup).
- Individual sessions for distros: Besides the default session, you can also install a desktop environment from any of these distributions and use the distros in standalone sessions.
- Flatpaks: Flatpaks too are supported. You can install them through the Flathub Store included in blendOS.
Supported distributions: Use apps or desktop environments from any of these distributions.
- Fedora Rawhide: Install any app from the Fedora repositories, or experience the latest version of GNOME available in the repos.
- Arch Linux: Use any of the apps available in one of the largest package repositories, the AUR, or from the Arch repositories.
- Ubuntu 22.04 and 22.10: Want to use one of those apps exclusive to Ubuntu? No problem, blendOS has you covered.
First Setup
Ease into BlendOS with our user-friendly First Setup app, your one-stop guide to effortlessly setting up and navigating BlendOS. It's only available on GNOME, which is why we recommend GNOME for new users.
Use any package manager in the same blendOS shell
You can use apt/apt-get, dnf/yum, pacman and yay all together from the same blendOS shell, just like you'd use them on their native distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch respectively).
Use a DE in any distro
You can even install GNOME or MATE on any distro of your choice (Ubuntu, Fedora or Arch), and use the distro as a separate standalone session. Just run:
$ blend install-de gnome # replace gnome with mate to install MATE, and add --distro [NAME] to specify a distro; default: fedora-rawhide
Flathub Store
We've also made Flathub available as a desktop app, from which you can install Flatpaks directly. Removal hasn't been implemented yet, so you'll have to use the flatpak CLI for now.
BlendOS v3 "Bhatura" released with seamless integration of multiple software options and desktop environments
aliriza-keskin23 added blendOS as alternative to Turkman Linux
cpfotiadis added blendOS as alternative to RebeccaBlackOS
Comments and Reviews
Their LXQT edition is broken. No icons on the Desktop or in the settings. No Wi-Fi widget so no way to connect to the internet which is required by the installer...
After installing the Cinnamon version, it was working until I rebooted. It did not boot the second time… and this is a known issue, confirmed by multiple people on various social media sites, but the devs are not responding - https://github.com/blend-os/blendOS/issues/114
Definitely a garbage distro, if you want a similar idea but in a working condition try Vanilla OS.