instantOSit works. fast. powerful.

An Arch-based distro for power users that just works

Just works

The user does not have to worry about everything from wifi to volume and brightness, theming and notification-management. A graphical settings menu ensures accessibility for anyone just like with a desktop environment.

Power-user friendly

instantOS has lots of functionality that goes beyond that of a normal desktop environment like tiling and instantASSIST that ensure a high skill ceiling.

Ultra lightweight

The RAM usage on idle is about 150-160Mb (tested on a fresh install on Virtualbox). That is less than half of what the lightest Ubuntu flavor uses.

Feature rich

The small footprint is not achieved through measures like slimming down the kernel or compromising on features and visuals.

Hybrid window manager

instantWM can do both tiling and floating windows with none of them being a second class citizen.

Keyboard and Mouse support

A keyboard centered workflow can make you much more productive but getting rid of the mouse is not the best thing for everyone.

instantOS is an Arch Linux based distro that works out of the box but is still aimed at power users. Everything is lightning fast, flexible and just works.

In addition to the usual Arch packages, we also package for the Nix universal package manager (and NixOS) via instantNIX.

instantOS beta 7 released

Support/Community

Until the user base outgrows this, any questions will be answered immediately by the devs. You can open issues on GitHub, ask for help on the Discord server, on the Subreddit or write an email to instantos@paperbenni.xyz

Get Involved

GitHub - Contribute to the project
Documentation - See it in action
Patreon - Support on Patreon
Buy Me a Coffee - One-time support
Liberapay - Recurrent donations

More Information

Partners
Links - A list of repos, todo and guidelines

instantOS is still in early beta, contributions always welcome