During a quest to find the most different Linux distros, I stumbled upon Nyarch Linux, in their own words:
The perfect linux distribution for degenerated weebs.
I did a test drive and was actually quite impressed. Blows everything with a similar ‘one-person-show’ background out of the water, regarding how polished and sleek it is.
The obsession with perfection and details is there, from their website address to the contents of it and not stopping at the distro level. Even comes with AI assistant.
But this is maybe me, coming from a KDE background and now trying to judge a Gnome environment.
Could someone with Gnome as daily driver share their impressions and how this compares to stock Gnome?
That’s exactly my point. It’s not about the target, but about their execution. Even the AI feature is made with a lot of thought – you can choose between four or five options, or none at all. And you can run them locally!
Typically small distributions would have a link with it’s own icon to ChatGPT and call it a day. These guys put effort in.
Again, this is not something you need to have a desire for to run. The way they put together a seamless system is the point. I can’t remember the last small distro I tested – and Arch, nonetheless – which was as polished. Omarchy as counterexample destroyed my test install.
Or have I been just lucky installing and running it?
PS: Might be heretic to say, but the ‘starship and rockets’ themes here might not look much different to ‘anime catgirls’ if you are interested in neither… Strong theming gets strong reactions.
For me, it looks pretty impressive for what appears to be a 2 person distro.
They have a bunch of custom tools and only a couple of them are forks of other tools. A lot of them were built by their team.
It all seems very polished.
I am not a daily driver of gnome but I have used it. This is definitely not the base gnome experience. That being said, it is mostly just extensions and theming they have added. That layout switcher appears to be a custom tool though.
Honestly, I think they have done more here than most of the small team Arch-derivatives do. Although it isn’t a fit for me, personally, I think this distro warrants praise.
If nothing else, they have far more cat girls and waifus than most distros.
