Mainstream OS: Arch Linux Made Approachable
Mainstream OS: Arch Linux Made Approachable Table of Contents What Is Mainstream OS? Standout Features and Under-the-Hood Specs Getting Mainstream OS and Joining the Community What Is Mainstream OS? Mainstream OS sums up its own ambition rather neatly: "Arch, approachable. Hyprland, at home." It's an Arch Linux-based distribution built around the Hyprland Wayland compositor, aimed squarely at people who want the power and currency of Arch without ever having to touch a configuration file to get a working, good-looking desktop. The project describes its aim as bringing something of the polish associated with macOS to an open, tiling-window-manager desktop, so that the experience feels right "whether it's your first Linux or your tenth." Under the surface sits Hyprland itself, the increasingly popular tiling Wayland compositor written in C++. On top of that, Mainstream OS layers a heavily customised build of Quickshell, the shell toolkit that has bec...
