your stable, privacy-respecting and ultimate productivity OS.
Develop your next app.
Welcome, it's your new desktop.
Power on and feel right at home when using your computer, from the first moment on.
Develop faster than ever before. Explore the galaxy. Write your next novel.
Develop faster than ever before. Explore the galaxy. Write your next novel.
Built with KDE Plasma.
Aurora is built around the customizable and adaptable KDE Plasma Desktop Environment.
Customized by us to have the best experience out of the box. Feel right at home.
Customized by us to have the best experience out of the box. Feel right at home.
Sensible defaults
With a set of carefully selected applications and chosen defaults, Aurora is built for daily usage and is easy, fun and productive. It takes care of you and works alongside you.
Aurora is a paradigm shift for Linux.
To rethink the Linux Desktop experience from the ground up, we built Aurora on new technology and principles. What does this mean for you?
Rock-solid, new paradigms.
We built Aurora on completely different technology and principles compared to a normal Linux Desktop.
Updates are built and tested before they ever reach you and are a single package that gets applied in the background.
And if a new version of Aurora breaks something, you can rollback to a known-good state.
The OS should never break on an update. Resilient against failure.
Updates are built and tested before they ever reach you and are a single package that gets applied in the background.
And if a new version of Aurora breaks something, you can rollback to a known-good state.
The OS should never break on an update. Resilient against failure.
A unified app store.
Utilizing the power of the Flathub App Store, we have a unified and one-stop shop for app developers and app users alike. For the first time, there is a unified app store for the Linux platform where developers can publish their apps easily and earn money to support their OSS work.
It's the year of the Linux App Store.
It's the year of the Linux App Store.
Easily auditable and extendable.
Aurora is nothing more than a collection of bash scripts, containerfiles and custom programs stitched together. This makes it easy to audit, contribute and help out. By building a easy entry-point for developers, we hope to encourage contributions from new users. Go on this journey with us.
We don't restrict your ability to audit Aurora.
We don't restrict your ability to audit Aurora.
How does Aurora fit in for you?
Here are a few reasons why you should consider using Aurora.
Automatic updates, forever.
Aurora downloads and applies updates automatically in the background.
This includes the operating system itself and all installed applications.
Let us take care of your updates.
This includes the operating system itself and all installed applications.
Let us take care of your updates.
Expanded hardware support.
Aurora includes support all graphics cards and CPUs, including GPUs from Nvidia. Expanded hardware support extends to game controllers and more printer drivers.
Help where you need it.
To make life easier for users, we have a easy to use way to switch image editions when you buy new hardware. We also have included a few common utilities to get started quickly with many common tasks.
Aurora for developers
Building on a great foundation, Aurora Developer Experience (DX) is designed to make the lives of every developer easy by bundling commonly used tools and applications into one package.
Local AI Workflows
By including GPU drivers and commonly used utilites for local AI, Aurora makes it easy for you to get started with running your own AI at home.
The robots are here to serve you.
The robots are here to serve you.
Preinstalled container tools.
Aurora Developer Experience includes Docker and Podman, offering choice and flexibility for the most demanding container-based workflows. Cloud-Native has never been easier.
Developer tools are a click away.
The developer experience includes commonly used developer tools like VS Code and comes preconfigured for containerized development workflows with DevContainers. If you like Jetbrains Products, they are only a command away.
Homebrew on-tap
Aurora automatically includes Homebrew with every installation, making it easy to discover, install and keep your favorite CLI tools up to date. Find thousands of libraries and tools in the brew libraries. And it's safely integrated to never mess with your host system.
For the community, by the community.
Aurora is built and maintained by the community, for the community. We are passionate in what we do.
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Documentation & Community
If you want to consult or documentation, contribute to it or need help / want to hang out in our community, you will find it here. We have forums and a Discord server.
Our documentation
Get help by reading the docs, or contribute to them if you want to improve them.
Community
We have forums for you to ask questions and discuss or a discord server to hang out in.
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