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You have reached the website of the NikOS operating system. NikOS is a custom installation script for Arch masquerading as an operating system. It started off as a pun, but now it actually made it to at least two computers! Note: Shortly after NikOS was released, Arch made their own python installer (coincidence? I think not! :P). Therefore, NikOS is now somewhat obsolete.

Purpose

Despite its pun-y nature, NikOS makes an effort to be useful. The installation script provided in NikOS produces a full working system without the usual manual tinkering required in an Arch installation (at the cost of some reduced flexibility). The NikOS installer does the following:

• Partitions and formats a drive of your choice to be used by NikOS. The whole drive is used.
• Detects your GPU and suggests a driver.
• Installs networking (using iwd for wireless).
• Installs packages to give a complete working system. The core of the installed system is i3-emacs-firefox.
• Installs a bunch of configuration files (dotfiles) so that the system looks cool.

Customizing NikOS

The NikOS installer does not prompt much and tries to automate things as much as possible by making many assumptions. The goal is to produce a working system which is easy to customize post-installation if needed. It is also possible to customize the installation itself by editing the NikOS installer which is just a short (250~ lines) python script. This can be done during installation.

Alternatively, you can create your own NikOS images using arch-iso and the NikOS profile found here. You could even give it you own catchy name. I suggest MariOS, PambOS, KotsiOS or similar.

Download

The latest image is:

• nikos-2021.07.19-x86_64.iso SHA1: 46dd415c0d9b3e6182c0728fcab986e590acb2d4

Copy it to a USB stick by running `cp nikos-[...].iso /dev/sdX` (use lsblk to find your device name). On windows use rufus. NikOS will uninstall windows for you (this is a good thing).