Arch Linux · Hyprland · Quickshell · 1.0.0
Vyntaris is a desktop operating system built on Arch Linux. The island in the middle of the bar grows into whatever you need: the launcher, the control center, your sound, your music, your updates. One accent colour runs through all of it, from the bar to Firefox to the lock screen.
Take it apart
Scroll, and the laptop opens and comes apart: what you see on the screen, and what runs beneath it.
Looks the system over the way the Arch Wiki asks, and puts right what it can, with one password.
Every app Arch describes, and the AUR's, installed with a click. No terminal.
Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, password-protected ones too.
Every setting in one file, and Ctrl+F finds any of them.
The control center, the launcher, sound, media and the power menu all grow out of the clock. One panel at a time.
Workspaces with live previews, the tray, the privacy dot, Wi-Fi and the battery.
Tiling that places windows by itself, animated, set from the same settings file as everything else.
Drawn again in your accent. GTK and Qt apps, Firefox, VS Code, the icons and the login screen follow it.
Tap SUPER for the control center and type to search. The first letter is never lost.
Networks and devices in the island, the password asked there. The phone link speaks KDE Connect's protocol, written for Vyntaris.
The kernel, systemd and pacman, straight from Arch. Drivers for what's inside install by themselves.
The power saver comes on by itself at 20 %, the charge stops at 80 % where the laptop allows it, and Dr. Help tells its wear.
Btrfs with zstd, trimmed every week and read through for damage every month. Dr. Help watches it for errors.
Dr. Help warns at 90 °C. Game mode starts with a game: the performance profile, quiet notifications, the FPS in the island.
Every output and input in one panel, and noise suppression for the microphone in four steps.
Btrfs snapshots of the system, never of your files: the last three kept, and the one from the install always.
An update gets three tries to start. If it can't, the boot menu's "Undo the update" puts the snapshot back by itself.
The island
Tap SUPER and the island becomes the control center; start typing and it becomes the search. Each panel opens from the island and goes back into it.
Made to be lived in
Today
The control center keeps the month beside today's date, the weather where you are (any city, found as you type), and a quiet line of the weeks you have left. Memento mori.
Live activities
Downloads, timers, a stopwatch, packages installing. Click an install and the island shows its terminal, progress bars and all, whatever terminal it runs in.
Privacy
When an app uses the microphone, the camera or the screen, a dot lights up in the bar. Its panel says which app, with a button to close it.
Plain words
Type volume 40, turn bluetooth off, 100 eur to rsd or check my system. It finds apps, settings, files by name and by what's inside them.
Accent
Fourteen accents, in dark and light. The bar, GTK and Qt apps, Firefox, VS Code, the terminal, the icons and the login screen all follow it. Pick one here: this page follows it too.
Sound
Speakers, headphones, HDMI and Bluetooth in one list, the cards' profiles switched for you. Noise suppression for the microphone in four steps, RNNoise underneath.
Phone
Its battery in the bar, its notifications on the desktop, a shared clipboard, files both ways, and the phone as a touchpad and keyboard. Vyntaris's own implementation of the protocol.
Quick Look
In the file manager, Space shows pictures, PDFs, videos, music, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files without opening an app. Arrow keys go through the folder.
On screen
Apps of its own
Dr. Help
Dr. Help looks the system over the way the Arch Wiki's System maintenance asks: failed services, errors in the log, Arch's news, leftover packages, mirrors, firmware, disk health, the package cache, SSD trimming, Btrfs scrubs. What it can fix has a button; all of them at once is one password. Its Report files a problem on GitHub with personal details taken out.
Store
The Store lists every app Arch's repositories describe, in sections, searched as you type, installed and removed with a click. With the AUR on, community recipes are built and installed the same way, no terminal.
Vyntaris Office
VDoc, VSheet and VSlide open and save Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, password-protected ones too. VSheet computes old workbooks the way Excel does. They come from the Vyntaris repository.
Under the hood
Vyntaris is a package from its own pacman repository. Underneath it is plain Arch, updated with pacman -Syu or one click in the island.
update-guard
A Timeshift snapshot before every upgrade, and a boot entry that goes back to it. If the new system fails to start three times, the old one comes back on its own and the desktop tells you.
Drivers
Graphics, Wi-Fi, sound, printers and scanners install after each start and when a printer is plugged in. Only the firmware for the hardware you have.
Upkeep
The package cache trimmed weekly, SSDs trimmed (fstrim.timer), Btrfs scrubbed monthly, mirrors kept fast with reflector, firmware from fwupd.
Fast
Hyprland and Quickshell, the desktop's tools written in Rust, zram instead of a swap file, the wallpaper drawn without the GPU.
Security
An nftables firewall, signed packages only from trusted repositories, uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, SponsorBlock and Privacy Badger in Firefox from the start.
Games
Steam with Proton, Lutris, GameMode and MangoHud, set up by typing set up games in the launcher; game mode quiets notifications and shows the FPS in the island.
Install
Copy it to a Ventoy stick, or write it directly:
sudo dd if=vyntaris-1.0.0-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress
The installer asks who you are and which disk to use, nothing more. Everyday apps come with it: Firefox, the file manager, VS Code, a calculator, an image viewer, a text editor, disk and system tools.