Play without the setup weekend.
Steam, Wine, Gamescope, MangoHud and support for controllers you forgot you owned. Latest Mesa (AMD®/INTEL®) and NVIDIA® graphics drivers arrive through a stack we maintain ourselves.
Fast, up to date and rolling
With the latest drivers, kernel, gaming, development and content creation apps. PikaOS gets you to the good part faster.
Debian Sid · Custom kernel · Latest packages and GPU stack
One versatile system.
PikaOS isn’t a gaming skin over a stock distro. We maintain the kernel, graphics stack, repositories and tools that make the whole machine easier to use.
Your GPU has a day job too.
Our Blender package ships with CUDA, OptiX, HIP, HIPRT and OneAPI support, we package full ROCm, CUDA and OneAPI stacks for compute work, while our OBS package includes game capture and stream-key support.
Control when you want it. GUIs when you don’t.
Update APT and Flatpak with Pikman, switch kernels and schedulers, manage GPU drivers, or do it all from the CLI. The useful choices are exposed; the chores are not.
Not just another pretty desktop.
The yellow bird is the obvious part. The work underneath is where PikaOS earns its keep.
- Base
- Debian Sid + Deb Multimedia Curated, patched and compiled together
- Packages
- O3 · LTO · x86-64-v3 Optimised across our base repositories
- Kernel
- Custom performance build CachyOS patches and switchable SCX schedulers
- Graphics
- Mesa · NVIDIA · compute Latest drivers and full compute stacks
- Install
- XFS · Btrfs · EXT4 The choice is yours
- Source
- Open Every package and custom tool is on our Gitea
Need the details? Our wiki covers installs, drivers, tools and troubleshooting.
Select a desktop environment
The desktop environment is what the desktop and graphical environment looks like. Every edition gets the same PikaOS base. Choose a familiar desktop experience or jump straight into a modern tiling workflow.
GNOME
Focused, calm and a good first stop if you want the computer to stay out of your way.
KDE Plasma
Familiar, deeply adjustable and happy to become exactly your desktop.
Hyprland
A polished tiling setup with the motion and flexibility already dialled in.
Niri
Scrollable tiling for keyboard-first work, preconfigured so you can learn by using it.
COSMIC
A modern Rust-built desktop with tiling, workspaces and room to grow.
Use the NVIDIA ISO for RTX cards and GTX 1650 or newer.
Built in the open. Helped by actual humans.
Read every patch, translate the apps, ask a question or help shape what comes next. PikaOS is opinionated software, not a black box.
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