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wootc

Alpha

Try Linux from inside Windows — no repartitioning, nothing deleted, fully reversible.

wootc installs a real bootc Linux desktop into a single file next to your Windows files, and adds a boot menu entry for it. No repartitioning and no point of no return: Windows stays the default boot until you say otherwise, and uninstalling is deleting a folder and a boot entry.

Windows 10 · 11Runs on
root.diskInstalls to
yes, at every stepReversible

Arm

The app creates root.disk, stages the signed boot chain on the ESP, and sets a one-shot boot entry.

Deploy

One reboot: the signed chain launches a small installer that writes the chosen OS image into root.disk, with optional LUKS/TPM2 encryption.

Live in both

A boot hook attaches root.disk on every boot and pivots into a native Linux system. Windows stays on the boot menu and its drive is there in the file manager.

Commit, or do not

Graduate Linux onto a real partition when you are sure, dual-boot indefinitely, or uninstall and leave no trace.

⚠️ Alpha. Take appropriate precautions.

Features

A password is the whole form

Your username and computer name come from your PC, the disk is sized from your free space, and TPM-backed encryption is the default. Everything else is stated on screen and adjustable under Advanced.

Your setup carries over

Files, Wi-Fi networks, wallpaper, accent colour, keyboard layout, taskbar pins, browser profiles, Steam libraries and WSL packages. Passwords, keys and tokens stay on Windows: you sign in again where it matters.

Secure Boot, not disabled

The deployer runs under a Microsoft/Fedora-signed boot chain from a one-shot boot entry, so Secure Boot stays on and nothing else on the machine is touched.

A real image catalog

GNOME, KDE Plasma, Niri and XFCE on Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Arch and Debian bases, or any supported custom OCI image.

Try it before you reboot

Boot the result in a VM window from inside Windows first.

An honest way back

Uninstall lives in Windows' own Apps list. It removes the boot entry and installer, restores changed settings, and only reclaims a partition wootc itself created.

Get started

Install with winget
winget install TunaOS.wootc