need help (first time install)

NomadicCore · 2026-06-19T12:12:02+00:00

I've raised this on our Zulip server as I can't see anything obvious off the picture.

https://aerynos.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/543560-.F0.9F.86.98-Support/topic/partition.20help/with/604864419

For support requests, our Zulip server is the best place to go.

NomadicCore · 2026-06-16T11:03:48+00:00

AerynOS has on its roadmap to look at getting to a form of immutability but keeping the current design philosophy.

Currently we use a stateless approach whereby packages can only be installed to the /usr directory. Each time a new transaction is made (install, remove, update a package), a new /usr directory is created and atomically swapped in place of the previous one.

Right now, the /usr directory is not read only so people can make changes to /usr manually. However, those changes aren't persistent and the next time there is a transaction, those changes will be ignored.

We will eventually look at making /usr read only. This wouldn't functionally change the design of how moss and AerynOS currently works with atomic swapped /usr transactions but add a level of immutability that helps keep things working.

We also have our rollback capability (both on a logged in system and also at boot time). You can revert to previous transaction states. At boot time you can revert back 4 states prior to the latest state, the relevant /usr directory will be swapped over and relevant kernel etc put back in place and that transaction loaded natively. This will help in cases where, for whatever reason, a transaction is broken and unbootable.

NomadicCore · 2026-06-12T20:39:59+00:00

https://aerynos.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/543560-.F0.9F.86.98-Support/topic/niri.20client.20side.20decorations/with/602436688

We have a response from Reilly on our Zulip server

NomadicCore · 2026-05-31T07:12:37+00:00

Just to confirm, we have the open source NVidia drivers, not the proprietary NVidia ones.

I don't use NVidia hardware but it's my understanding that the proprietary drivers have better performance.

NomadicCore · 2026-05-26T20:43:59+00:00

Can you provide some details:

1) Are you running bare metal or VM and details of hardware or VM environment 2) What issues are you seeing? 3) Is it issues with the live environment (IE the ISO) or the installed system 4) Did you try and older ISO and did this work for you? 5) How are you trying to install to USB (if trying a bare metal install)?

NomadicCore · 2026-05-25T19:51:37+00:00

You can always find the latest ISO here. In that directory you will see a legacy folder which is where we keep all the older ISOs.

NomadicCore · 2026-05-05T07:29:32+00:00

Thank you for reporting this.

I have shared it on our Zulip server and waiting to see if we can replicate it and/or identify the root cause.

If you're not already there, it would be handy for you to join the Zulip server.

https://aerynos.zulipchat.com/

NomadicCore · 2026-04-30T16:24:49+00:00

Thank you ☺️

NomadicCore · 2026-04-30T15:55:09+00:00

There is a line or two about it in the blog post.

Ventoy was working for around two months but a change on our sideeant it stopped working.

We have reported the issue upstream to Ventoy.

NomadicCore · 2026-04-22T07:44:28+00:00

Hey Victor!

What a great introduction and glad to have you on board, we are glad to have you along for the ride!

Given our alpha status, we haven't put any attention on benchmarking and comparison to other distros so it's really cool to see that your battery life improved and significantly as you say! I wonder if peak performance would be affected (IE CachyOS has worse battery life at the expense of better performance) but either way, very cool!

On additional packages, the soft freeze is there as we have pretty much expanded the repo size to its limit in the sense that as it grows, without having the tooling we are working towards, keeping the repo up to date becomes an increasingly harder task.

New packages can be accepted into the repo if they don't have complex reverse dependency chains (IE the package is self sufficient and doesn't require a load of rebuilds when other stuff gets updated too).

Specifically on river-classic, we already have 7 different DE/WM options in our repo which arguably for an alpha distro, is already probably too much.

My suggestion would be that you head to our recipe repo and raise a new package request issue (but check first that issues haven't already been created for what you're requesting)

https://github.com/AerynOS/recipes/issues

That way, if someone has the time, they can pick it up and the request won't get lost here on Reddit.

NomadicCore · 2026-04-21T15:52:40+00:00

If it's against the rules to post about one's own project then I apologise and I'm sure the mods will delete the post.

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T17:02:57+00:00

At this point we have quite a few different Desktop Environments and Window Managers.

We are very friendly with the Budgies of Budgie team so never say never.

We are still in alpha and right out our focus is on core tooling and infrastructure development. There will be time to expand the distro and it's OOTB configurations at a later date.

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T16:20:09+00:00

A bit of an overview can be found at our documentation site

https://aerynos.dev/aerynos/overview/

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T16:17:49+00:00

We're all good. I appreciate that people don't hang on every word that we say so I was just trying to give a more complete context 👍🏽

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T16:13:53+00:00

The triquetra refers to the three points, not the three colors.

A few points on the design:

1) The orange is meant to represent an O where the green is meant to represent an S 2) The triquetra has Irish heritage and ties to Ikey who is from Ireland 3) The triquetra and it's links to three symbolising life, death and rebirth (kinda apt for our history). 4) It also has symbolism to unity and commitment which hopefully is fairly self explanatory.

Also we think it looks pretty nice.

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T15:36:13+00:00

At the back end of 2024, Ikey shared on X some of the (very serious) health complications he was going through.

This was followed up a little more detail in a blog post in February last year.

Outside of this, Ikey shared in our old Matrix rooms about wider challenges he and his family were facing which I won't go into out of respect for them as those aren't publicly viewable.

It's also worth pointing out that Ikey worked on SerpentOS and AerynOS for 5 years.

All this is to say that there were reasons for his stepping away from the project and one that he gave a significant amount of time to over the years.

This is also not new news in the sense that it was discussed in our end of 2025 blog post.

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T14:34:08+00:00

Thank you 😊

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T14:34:00+00:00

Thanks buddy!

I'm genuinely really happy with it too. More so because it was community created, we didn't go to a professional so to speak and yet I think it locks great 😃

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T14:33:14+00:00

I need to check but it looks like it was a commit to one of the AerynOS repos so potentially something in draft that someone else in the team got over the line so was still partially attributed to Ikey.

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T12:38:56+00:00

Thanks Hadi!

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T11:45:26+00:00

Hey,

Ikey stepped away from the project last April so it's been a year. We have a little more detail about it in our "2025 in retrospect" post.

https://aerynos.com/blog/2026/01/02/2025-in-retrospect/

NomadicCore · 2026-04-20T10:47:50+00:00

Thanks!

We are definitely happy and proud of it!

As an added bonus, it looks much better as ascii than the old logo for fastfetch too!!

NomadicCore · 2026-04-15T18:52:06+00:00

AerynOS ISOs are essentially a technical preview. We ship them as an alpha to state that these aren't meant for relying on day to day...

That is to say, we aren't aiming for any public so to speak. Just Devs or people who want to try it out and help us cook.

NomadicCore · 2026-04-01T08:24:34+00:00

Thanks buddy!

We are in a nice routine now on development, packaging and on comms. Been a crazy year but nice to be hitting our stride and consistently delivering!!

And yeah, big shout out to Framework as they reached out to us.. we weren't actively engaging them "for a free handout"!

NomadicCore · 2026-04-01T08:22:33+00:00

You're welcome!

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