Vyntaris Download

Arch Linux · Hyprland · Quickshell

Everything starts at the island.

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.

Download Vyntaris See the island

Free. For 64-bit PCs with UEFI. Updates itself from Arch Linux.

The Vyntaris desktop with the island open as the control center: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, night light and the microphone as tiles, volume and brightness, the processor and memory, and this month's calendar with the weather.

The island

One place at the top of the screen, every panel you need.

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.

The launcher: apps, settings, windows and files found as you type.

Launcher

Apps, settings, open windows and files. Plain words work as commands: “volume 40”, “100 eur to rsd”.

The sound panel: the output and input in use, their volume, and every other device.

Sound

Speakers, headphones, HDMI and Bluetooth in one list, and noise suppression for the microphone.

The wallpaper picker: wallpapers in a row under the bar.

Wallpapers

Under the bar, ← and → to browse, Enter to set. Vyntaris's own are drawn in your accent.

Game mode: on, with notifications silenced and the FPS shown.

Game mode

Starts with a game: notifications quiet, the FPS and temperatures in the island.

Night light: warmer screen colours, on now or on a schedule.

Night light

Warmer colours in the evening, by hand or on a schedule.

Made to be lived in

The small things, already done.

Today

Calendar, weather and the weeks ahead

The control center keeps the month beside today's date, the weather where you are, and a quiet line of the weeks you have left.

Live activities

The island shows what's going on

Downloads, timers, a stopwatch, packages installing, backups. Click an install and the island shows its terminal, progress bars and all.

Privacy

A dot while something listens

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.

Backups

Your folders on your Google Drive

Once a day, at every start or every hour. What you change or delete keeps its last copy there. It sees only what it put there.

Phone

Your phone, paired with KDE Connect

Its battery in the bar, its notifications on the desktop, a shared clipboard, files both ways, and the phone as a touchpad.

Quick Look

Space to look at a file

In the file manager, Space shows pictures, PDFs, videos, music and Office files without opening an app.

One colour, everywhere. Pick an accent and this page follows it too:

Apps of its own

The tools a desktop should come with.

The Store: popular apps in a list, each with an Install button.

Store

Every app Arch has, one click away

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.

Dr. Help: a check-up of the system, each finding with a fix button.

Dr. Help

A check-up, in plain words

Dr. Help looks the system over the way the Arch Wiki's System maintenance asks: failed services, errors in the log, leftover packages, mirrors, firmware, disk health. What it can fix has a button; all of them at once is one password.

VSheet, Vyntaris Office's spreadsheet, with an empty workbook open.

Vyntaris Office

Documents, spreadsheets and slides

VDoc, VSheet and VSlide open and save Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, password-protected ones too. VSheet computes old workbooks the way Excel does.

Settings on its Appearance page: accent, mode, glass and animations.

Settings

One place for all of it

Every setting in one file, every one found from the launcher by its name. The look, the bar, power, backups, drivers, users and the language.

Two windows tiled side by side: a terminal and VDoc.
Hyprland tiling: windows place themselves.
The lock screen: the blurred wallpaper behind a large clock, music controls under it.
The lock screen, with your music under the clock.
The welcome screen on its Look step: dark or light, accent and wallpaper.
Welcome: look, keyboard, time and the internet, done.

Under the hood

Arch Linux, looked after.

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

Updates that undo themselves

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.

Drivers

Drivers by themselves

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

Upkeep on a schedule

The package cache trimmed weekly, SSDs trimmed, Btrfs scrubbed monthly, mirrors kept fast, firmware from fwupd.

Fast

Fast where it matters

Hyprland and Quickshell, the desktop's own tools written in Rust, zram instead of a swap file, the wallpaper drawn without the GPU.

Security

Safe by default

An nftables firewall, signed packages only, and uBlock Origin, Bitwarden and Privacy Badger in Firefox from the start.

Games

Ready for games

Steam with Proton, Lutris, GameMode and MangoHud, set up by typing “set up games” in the launcher.

Download

Install Vyntaris.

One image for every PC with a 64-bit processor and UEFI. It updates itself from then on.

Download the ISO
File
vyntaris-x86_64.iso, the latest release
Checksum
SHA256SUMS
Needs
a 64-bit PC with UEFI, and a USB stick of 4 GB or more

  1. Download the ISO

    It has the installer and the whole desktop, so installing works without the internet.

  2. Put it on a USB stick

    Copy it to a Ventoy stick, or write it to the stick directly (this erases the stick; sdX is the stick):

    sudo dd if=vyntaris-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress

  3. Boot it and install

    The installer asks who you are and which disk to use, nothing more. Firefox, the file manager, VS Code and the everyday tools come with it.