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Kiro - an Arch-based Linux distribution, curated for daily use.
Built by Erik Dubois (creator of ArcoLinux) with Claude AI as dev partner. Real Arch - full pacman, full AUR, rolling release - with the sharp edges filed off.
The difference is what you get after the reboot: GTK4 apps we wrote ourselves.
- ArchLinux Tweak Tool - control center for kernels, services, packages, autostart, and 30 desktops on demand
- Hyprland, Alacritty, Fastfetch and Fish Tweak Tools - graphical editors for configs you would otherwise hand-write
- ArchLinux Logout, Kiro Assistant, Kiro News - one themed logout screen, an AI knowledge base for the distro, an in-system news notifier
- Kiro ISO Builder - our kernel-agnostic build system, public, so you can fork the distro and build it with Plasma, Mate or another
Plus: 30 desktops (6 DEs, 9 x11 tilers, 15 Wayland), linux-cachyos + linux-zen, nemesis_repo + chaotic-aur, no telemetry, firewalld on, Timeshift ready.
Free. https://kiroproject.be
Features
- ArchLinux Tweak Tool - a modular GTK4 control center for your whole Arch system
- Hyprland Tweak Tool - a dedicated GTK4 hub for the Hyprland compositor
- Alacritty Tweak Tool - graphical editor for alacritty.toml, comments preserved
- Fastfetch Tweak Tool - pick and order modules, browse logos, live preview
- Fish Tweak Tool - the fish configurator that fish_config is not
- ArchLinux Logout - one themed logout screen for every desktop and window manager
- Kiro Assistant - a curated knowledge base so an AI can answer questions about Kiro itself
- Kiro News - in-system notifier, so breaking Arch changes reach you first
- Kiro Powermenu - a rofi power menu shipped with the tiling editions
- Kiro ISO Builder - the kernel-agnostic build system, published for anyone to fork
- Arc theme generator - our GTK colour themes built from source, not scraped
- Neo-Candy icon themes - a full line-icon family in dozens of colourways
- Every app is GTK4, Python, open source, and shipped as a signed package
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License
GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)Follow kiro
User Reviews
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Kiro Linux, I am addicted to it, cannot get enough of it. Using Xfce edition, without any other desktop environment installed. Made my own ISO with Kiro-ISO-Builder, that Erik and his AI companion Claude made together. In fact this whole OS is made with Claude, with Erik checking and looking over the work Claude had done. This is how AI with human intervention should work and Erik and Claude have done a brilliant job. Kiro Linux is Arch based and the wonderful thing is Erik, who has dedicated his servers for updates, whilst AUR is being repaired. You get the Chaotic AUR, not only that you get Cachy OS Repository and am able to use Cachy OS Kernels. Tweak the system to your liking with Arch-Linux-Tweak Tool, that Erik and Claude has added stuff for Kiro Linux, though I heard can use same settings in Cachy OS too. I cannot get enough of this Kiro Linux. Not only do you get a really fast OS, but you're able to learn all about Kiro with Erik's excellent documentation, not just in written form, but over five thousand videos, even those videos with Arco-Linux, as the structure of Arch has not changed, it is still the same. I'm blown away with the hard work and dedication that Erik has put into this. I urge anyone who wants to learn Arch to come over to Kiro Linux, watch Erik's brilliant library of videos on YouTube, read his documentation on his site too. Cannot recommend it enough, thank you Erik and Claude.
