My initial post on Ni! OS gained more interest than I expected. Any time I jokingly do something, people react to it more than when I do something serious. :)

As a reminder, KDE Ni! OS is not a distribution, but a configuration for NixOS that aims at providing a ready-made immutable system for KDE users and developers with similar features to those of proper immutable KDE distributions.

If the Google search AI tells you it is a distribution, do not trust it:

Further, if the Google search AI tells you Ni! OS is a code name for KDE Linux, do not trust it:

Repository

The project got a repository at invent.kde.org which is currently in a very rough/bare state. Could be useful to existing NixOS users, but has a long way to go to become a proper resource on how to install and use Ni! OS.

Logo

NixOS has its own (quite cool, if you ask me) logo which doesn’t suite the comical image Ni! OS is trying to achieve.

For this reason, Ni! OS now has a proper custom logo – representing a – a shrubbery! – one that looks nice, and not too expensive.

It is also meant to represent the way NixOS achieves immutability. Many packages are present on the system, but hidden from the plain sight as they belong to the previous system versions or are just hidden-from-the-user dependencies of other packages.