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Most beautiful desktops are irreproducible — a pile of hand-tuned dotfiles that works on exactly one machine. aphrOS is one Nix flake. The same input yields the same desktop, every time, on every machine.
Read the manual Why there is no ISO yet
Phase 2 of 4. Running daily on one machine. Nothing to download.
Plenty of projects let you change anything. Very few let you rebuild what you changed. The difference shows up on the day the disk dies.
Ansible renders the flake, moves secrets and drives the rebuild. It
never mutates the running system — no package installs, no lines edited
into /etc. If something can't be expressed in the flake,
that's a design bug, not a licence to reach for a shell.
changed=0That's the acceptance test, not a slogan. A run that has to change something the second time round has found drift, and drift is the thing this whole design exists to make impossible.
Not one. Keys live in a vault and arrive at converge time; the repository holds paths and never values. You can hand someone the whole flake and lose nothing.
The compositor, the bar, the lock screen, the notification daemon, the terminal wordmark — and this page — all read the same file. The colours you are looking at were generated from it when the page was built.
Every binding lives in one list, and that list feeds both the compositor and the sheet you're looking at. A shortcut that isn't on the sheet isn't bound — the two cannot disagree.
Settings, capture modes, the documentation and the power actions, all reachable without knowing a command first. There's a section for restarting Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, audio, the bar or the notifier — because that fixes most of what people reboot for.
Shortcuts · Clipboard · Capture · Sound · Network · Bluetooth · Restart something · Learn · About · Power
Full-disk encryption usually means someone types a passphrase at a keyboard. aphrOS unlocks over the network — LUKS2 with a network-bound key — and only when the owner's phone is actually present, proven over Bluetooth before the root filesystem is touched.
Take the phone out of the room and the machine asks for the passphrase like any other. There is a typed fallback on every path.
aphrOS runs every day on one laptop. It is not something you can install yet, and this page would rather say so than imply otherwise.
No company behind this, no foundation, no sponsorship deck. If the ideas here are useful to you, this is where you can say so.