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The systemd-free Nitrux 5.0 debuts with Hyprland as the default desktop, APT-style NX AppHub, immutable root, and performance-tuned kernels.

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After many months of hard work, Uri Herrera announced today the general availability of Nitrux 5.0 as a major update to this immutable and systemd-free distribution. > “Nitrux is for those who understand its design as an act of intent. It rewards curiosity, patience, and comprehension; It values users who understand configuration as empowerment, not inconvenience.” Nitrux 5.0 is the first release to drop the KDE Plasma desktop environment and ship with Hyprland by default, a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor, using greetd as a minimal **Wayland** login manager, Waybar as a highly customizable Wayland bar, Wlogout as a logout menu, and Crystal Dock as a dock, and Wofi as an application launcher. The new Hyprland setup also features Clipvault, a clipboard history manager for Wayland, QtGreet, a Qt-based greeter for greetd, nwg-displays, an output management utility for Wayland, nwg-look, a GTK3 settings editor for wlroots environments, Sway’s notification center, and Hyprscreend for changing the screen refresh rate. Another novelty in Nitrux 5.0 is that the distribution is now available in two variants, one with the classic Liquorix-flavored kernel and one with the CachyOS kernel, a very appreciated kernel these days that promises improved responsiveness, throughput, and overall system performance. **Linux kernel 6.17** is used by default in this release. The Liquorix kernel-powered ISO image ships with the Mesa graphics stack, while the CachyOS kernel-powered ISO features the **open-source NVIDIA graphics driver**. As such, the Nitrux devs recommend users to download the Liquorix edition for AMD GPUs and the CachyOS edition for NVIDIA GPUs. As far as the software selection goes, Nitrux 5.0 uses OpenRC as the default init, various MauiKit apps, including Index as the default file manager, PipeWire for handling audio and video streams, **NetworkManager** for all your network connections, Calamares as the default graphical installer, and Flatpak support. It also ships with Grimshot as the default screenshots utility and KDE’s Ark as the default file archiver. This release also includes components like OpenRazer, AppArmor, BlueZ, fwupd, Git, Docker, Podman, CoreCtrl, WirePlumber, XWayland, and **KDE Frameworks**. Under the hood, Nitrux 5.0 features the SCX global vtime CPU scheduler, Valve’s Gamescope micro compositor, and the Ananicy-cpp daemon designed to offer lower CPU and RAM usage while managing process priorities, CPU scheduling, I/O scheduling, and cgroups through an event-based system. Check out the _release announcement page_ for more details, from where you can download Nitrux 5.0 as Liquorix and CachyOS-flavored editions from the same location. As you can imagine, it is not possible to upgrade existing Nitrux installations to this new major version, so you’ll have to perform a fresh install. _Image credits: Uri Herrera_ ### _Related_

Nitrux 5.0 distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.17 and full Hyprland desktop environment.

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