ThorOS: The Linux Distro You Talk To
ThorOS: The Linux Distro You Talk To Contents What Is ThorOS? Setting Up and Talking to Jarvis Our Hardware Reality Check What Is ThorOS? ThorOS is the flagship release of Yggdrasil AI , an American project that describes itself as an "AI-first, local-first operating system." Rather than treating an AI assistant as just another app sitting in the taskbar, ThorOS puts it front and centre: you state what you want, in speech or in text, and the system works out how to do it. Under the hood, ThorOS is a proper Debian-based desktop distribution running the GNOME desktop, with Firefox ESR as the default browser and LibreOffice for office work, so it feels familiar the moment the desktop loads. The version reviewed here, 1.5.5, ships as a roughly 6.4 to 6.5 GB installable ISO for x86_64 machines, uses the standard apt and deb packaging tools, systemd as its init system, and offers a choice of Btrfs, ext4, JFS or XFS for the file system. It follows a ...
