One base, every desktop
Each Marlin flavor ships a different desktop on the same Arch Linux foundation.
GNOME
The polished default — latest GNOME, backported to Enterprise Linux.
:gnomeKDE Plasma
Endlessly customizable, feature-rich Plasma desktop.
:kdeCOSMIC
System76's Rust-built next-gen desktop.
:cosmicNiri
A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor for keyboard-driven flow.
:niriXFCE
The classic lightweight desktop — ported to Wayland with the new xfwl4 compositor.
:xfceSee the desktops
Real screenshots, captured automatically each week by booting every desktop in a VM.
Why Marlin
Atomic & rollback-safe
Built on bootc: image-based updates that apply in one transaction and roll back just as cleanly.
Homebrew baked in
Thousands of CLI tools and fonts a `brew install` away — no layering, no rebuilds.
Flathub by default
Full Flathub access out of the box. Install any Flatpak on the net, instantly.
NVIDIA + CUDA option
A dedicated -nvidia flavor ships the proprietary driver and CUDA for gaming and AI workloads.
Images & flavors
Pull any flavor directly, or rebase an existing bootc system onto it.
ghcr.io/tuna-os/marlin:gnomeghcr.io/tuna-os/marlin:kdeghcr.io/tuna-os/marlin:cosmicghcr.io/tuna-os/marlin:nirighcr.io/tuna-os/marlin:xfcesudo bootc switch ghcr.io/tuna-os/marlin:gnomePrefer a different cadence?
Same desktops, same tooling — pick the base that fits you.
Dive into Marlin
Grab a live ISO, or rebase an existing bootc system in one command.