Preview: lensOS Phone
Your phone's notifications, calls, texts, contacts and music on the computer, over Bluetooth, with nothing to install on the phone.
An Arch-based desktop that looks good from the first boot
lensOS is a Linux distribution built on Arch Linux. It uses Arch's official repositories and the AUR directly, and adds a small set of its own: a package manager, lens, that handles the repos, the AUR and Flatpak in one command and snapshots the system before every update; a desktop-tuned kernel, linux-lens; a graphical installer; and desktops that are set up and themed out of the box.
The desktop is light and beautiful: a floating bar, a dock, frosted glass and one-click themes, in under 800 MB of memory (see the desktop). lensOS is in active development: there's no stable release yet, but nightly builds install and update. Start with the getting started page or go straight to the download.
Latest News
A notification sidebar, and brightness in Settings
Past notifications slide in from the right on frosted glass, the bar gets a bell, and Settings can change the screen's and keyboard's brightness.
Security updates available (joke update)
A joke announcement from ash. This is not a security advisory and includes no security fixes.
One desktop, light and beautiful
lensOS retires its KDE Plasma edition to focus on the Openbox desktop, which idles in under 800 MB of memory.
Settings for everything, and a round of fixes
lensOS Settings grows from five pages to sixteen, the bar gets widgets and styles, the installer can join Wi-Fi and lets you pick partitions, and a list of rough edges is gone.
T2 Macs, and drivers for (nearly) everything
The new ISOs support Intel Macs with Apple's T2 chip and carry drivers for far more hardware, from Broadcom Wi-Fi to printers, with NVIDIA's driver installable offline.