CatOS is billed as an open-source, Arch-based, out-of-the-box Linux distribution designed to provide an excellent operating system user experience.
Arch is fast, stable, and secure and also allowing you to have a great experience even on older computers. However, Arch Linux is also aimed at more experienced users. As such, it is generally considered to be beyond the reach of those who need more technical expertise or persistence to use it. This is why CatOS was born, to inherit the advantages of Arch while making it more user-friendly, so that you can enjoy it without complicated installation and configuration.
Features include:
- Well-designed desktop environment, software repositories (archlinuxcn,arch4edu), AUR helper, input method, GRUB theme, NVIDIA GPU drivers and much more.
- Uses a customized version of Calamares graphical installer, making it available for even the least inexperienced users.
- Designed to be user-friendly.
- Supports more than ten Linux subsystems, including Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, openSUSE, Deepin, Void, etc., all of which are deeply integrated and can be started with one click.
- Lightweight system that runs smoothly and is stable and free from crashes.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | KDE Plasma |
| Init Software: | systemd |
| Package Management: | Pacman |
| Release Model: | Rolling |
| Platforms: | x86_64 |
| Home Page: | catos.info |
| Developer: | CatOS |
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