This article has more words wasted on metaphors than actual information.
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2026
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The article unfortunately does a horrendous job at highlighting AerynOS' unique features by only giving vague descriptions without going into any technicality that matters.
FWIW, my two cents on AerynOS:
- It offers (yet) a(nother) novel approach to atomic distros. The gist for its ambition (or, at least, my understanding of it) would be NixOS, but with FHS intact and without a DSL.
AerynOS
little too close to "aryan" for me.
To me it reminds me of the Auryn.
That's fucking dumb.
Would you stop eating nasi because it's a 'little too close to “nazi”' for you too?
Stop it. Get some help.
I fully support eating Nazis.
I wouldn't want to work with one though.
I wish they talked a bit more about actual design aspects of the distro 😅
It sounds like it might be up my alley, but it doesnt feel like I actually learned a whole lot
No idea why the author thinks this distro stands out from a sea of distros just like it
If it's not Gentoo, I'm not interested.
An opinionated distro with an opinionated DE on an opinionated compositor.
Yah, no thanks. Fill your boots.
OK this feels AI generated. Not that the info is slop but the language is so chatbotty
I'm all for choice but the new toy syndrome with linux distros is too much.
Whatever happened to all the hype around NixOS?
Last year it was CachyOS.
Whatever happened to all the hype around NixOS?
Sorry, I'm too busy building up my NixOS configuration to hype it up on the web. Go check out Vimjoyer for all your NixOS knowledge needs. He is the new official documentation.
Friends don't let friends use NixOS
I feel like opinionated linux distros that already firmly moved to wayland must already exist, but I haven't really seriously researched this. KaOS, maybe?
I didn't really have the patience for distro-shopping in recent years. I favor keyboard-driven setups, and the few times a distro offers that out of the box the shortcuts and config files are different enough from mine that it's annoying to get into it.
So there’s not a full distro built around it, or even a full desktop environment, but you should check out niri. Keyboard focused, infinite scrolling, Wayland tiling window manager.
There is a nixOS flake or it can be installed over Arch, Ubuntu, or whatever else you want.
I recently checked out KaOS' new iso with niri. It did look neat, but it had exactly the issues I just described. The window management shortcuts were unfamiliar, it took me like 15 minutes to figure out how to change keyboard layouts (in part because the general presentation suggested that there was probably a GUI method, but there wasn't), I couldn't even make dark mode work easily.
I could probably make niri work for me if I really wanted, but it's a lot of work for no real benefit. I'll probably just end up moving to sway in a couple of years when it becomes really unreasonable to keep using X11, since that one is actually designed to feel similar to the window manager I'm currently using (i3).
The good news is that something like this already exists; just goes to show it’s a matter of time before more refined options are developed.
As an aside, there are now plugins for Noctalia Shell, including a pretty good “Keybind Cheatsheet” plugin, which may make it easier to pick up and play with things like niri.