Embrace the Arkane

Arkane Linux is an opinionated, immutable, atomic Arch-based distibution which aims to provide a GNOME-centered experienced with minimal yet full featured and sensible non-intrusive defaults.

Atomic updates

Updates are only applied if they are performed successfully. Should an update fail or somehow be interupted it will make no permanent changes to the system.

Immutable deployments

The system is by default read-only and updates are done through prebuild Btrfs subvolume exports. Everyone is running the exact same system configuration, images are validated for functionality before being made available for deployment.

Arkdep

Arkdep is a self-developed deployment manager utilized to build, manage and atomically deploy an immutable, Btrfs-based system. Think of it as a package manager which reinstalls your entire OS upon update leaving the old deployment untouched and available should you wish to roll back to the pre-update state.

It just works

Immutable systems tend to be nearly zero maintenance, before an update is made available its functionality will first be validated. Both minor and major changes to the system will be performed and validated by us before they are made available to the users, effectively anything can be changed or fixed by us through regular system updates.

Tailing the bleeding edge

By default Arkane Linux is configured with and to make use of currently relevant and/or upcoming technologies and software. For example Arkane ships with mutter-dynamic-buffering by default and will adopt promising GNOME Circle applications as default once deemed mature and suitable upgrades over the old offerings.