PolonOS is a Polish Linux distribution based on Debian Testing and built around the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment.
It aims to provide an approachable desktop system with its own visual identity, configuration utilities and additional hardware support.
Key Features
- Uses KDE Plasma 6 as the default desktop environment.
- Supports both Wayland and X11 desktop sessions.
- Provides the custom PolonOS Dark desktop theme, including its own colour scheme, Aurorae window decorations, icon set, wallpaper and KSplash screen.
- Uses a customised Qt6-compatible SDDM login theme.
- Includes PolonOS Welcome, an application designed to assist with initial configuration after installation.
- Integrates APT package management together with access to Flatpak applications from Flathub.
- Provides hardware detection and installation facilities for proprietary NVIDIA graphics drivers.
- Includes support for NVIDIA open kernel modules and recent Blackwell / RTX 50 series graphics hardware.
- Supports hybrid AMD and NVIDIA graphics configurations using PRIME Offload.
- Uses Calamares for installation with additional PolonOS post-install configuration.
- Ships with printing support based on CUPS, including printer discovery and administration utilities.
- Includes PolonOS Kalendarz, a calendar application with local SQLite storage, Google Calendar synchronisation and desktop notifications.
- Provides PolonOS NetMonitor for monitoring network activity.
- Uses Google Roboto typography across the desktop and native PolonOS applications.
- Offers installation images through direct download, SourceForge and BitTorrent, with checksums supplied for integrity verification.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | KDE Plasma |
| Init Software: | systemd |
| Package Management: | APT |
| Release Model: | Fixed |
| Platforms: | x86_64 |
| Home Page: | github.com/przemekszlagor/PolonOS |
| Developer: | przemekszlagor |
| This article is part of our Big List of Active Linux Distributions. |
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