Abora OS is a NixOS-based Linux distribution designed to make the first steps with NixOS less demanding.
It keeps the NixOS foundations, including declarative configuration, rebuilds, generations and rollbacks, but adds a cleaner live environment, a guided installer, desktop choices, theming, application bundles and helper tools aimed at simplifying setup and day-to-day maintenance.
Key Features
- Guided terminal installer with keyboard-driven menus, locale setup, user creation, desktop selection and an install summary before disk changes.
- Choice of multiple desktop environments and window managers, including GNOME, KDE Plasma, XFCE, Hyprland, Sway, i3, LXQt and Openbox.
- Abora command layer for first boot, recovery, desktop switching, maintenance and safer local configuration changes.
- ANIX profile management for shorter rebuild, snapshot, diff, test, boot, switch and rollback workflows.
- Flatpak and Flathub support enabled by default, together with TinyPM for simpler application and package source management.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | GNOME, KDE Plasma, COSMIC, XFCE, Cinnamon, MATE, Budgie, LXQt, Pantheon, Hyprland, Sway, Niri, River, i3, AwesomeWM, Qtile, BSPWM, Herbstluftwm, Openbox, Fluxbox, IceWM |
| Init Software: | systemd |
| Package Management: | Nix, TinyPM, Flatpak |
| Release Model: | Fixed |
| Platforms: | x86_64 |
| Home Page: | www.aboraos.org |
| Developer: | AnimatedGTVR |
| This article is part of our Big List of Active Linux Distributions. |
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