Nitrux OS

Nitrux is a Linux desktop distribution built from Debian. It uses the Calamares installer and includes NX Desktop on the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment and KDE Applications. Nitrux emphasizes the use of AppImages to manage end-user software. Nitrux also does not use systemd as its init system; instead, it uses OpenRC, a simpler init and service manager. Nitrux is very up-to-date, thanks to its use of the latest Debian base and the Liquorix kernel, an enthusiast Linux kernel designed for uncompromised responsiveness in interactive systems. Nitrux includes additional performance enhancements, such as allowing “inodes” to be placed at any location on the filesystem, compression using zstd with compression at level 6, and verification of compressed blocks using a checksum to avoid corruption.

Nitrux extends Plasma to allow the user to glance over system operations with easy-to-understand status displayed on the screen. NX Desktop is a set of applied customizations to the Plasma 5 Desktop. It includes new plasmoids (or Plasma widgets) and a new LnF (also known as a “look and feel”) package that includes the following items: KStyle, KWin decorations, wallpapers, Plasma themes, Konsole theme and profile, Aurorae themes, SDDM themes, cursors, and color schemes.

Nitrux is a complete Operating System that ships the essential apps and services for daily use: office applications, PDF reader, image editor, music and video players, etc. Nitrux includes a suite of convergent applications called Maui Apps. We use MauiKit, our convergent, cross-platform UI framework, to create these applications. KDE Applications are a set of applications and supporting libraries designed for KDE Plasma 5. We also include non-KDE or Qt applications like Firefox that create a friendly user experience.

Available out-of-the-box Nitrux includes a selection of applications carefully picked to perform the best when using your computer:

• Index, the file manager.
• Nota, the simple text editor.
• Station, the terminal emulator.
• Pix, an image gallery.
• VVave, a music player.
• Buho, a note-taking application.
• Shelf, a light and straightforward PDF viewer.
• Clip, a video player.
• NX Software Center, the store for AppImages.
• Strike, an IDE for C++ projects.
• Bonsai, a Git repository manager.
• Arca, the archiving tool.
• KCalc, the calculator.
• Plasma System Monitor, the system task manager.
• Spectacle, a screenshot utility.
• Firefox, the ethical web browser.
• Partition Manager, an application to manage disks and partitions.
• Hardware Probe, a CLI utility to provide a detailed summary of a computer. … and more!