Important actions show what will change and why. It sounds basic because it should be.
Your system. Your rules.
An Arch-based distro trying to do something that should be obvious: give you control without turning the computer into a full-time maintenance project or hiding what the system is doing.
Phase 2 · Reproducible ISO skeletonHaving control should not require living in a terminal.
We want a comfortable GUI, not a black box. If an action changes packages, files, services, snapshots or boot, the system should be able to explain that before you have to investigate it the hard way.
Higher-risk change needs a recovery path designed before something goes wrong.
GUI and CLI use the same backend instead of creating two different truths about the same machine.
Local-first, no advertising, and no default telemetry. The computer stays yours.
Not everyone works the same way. Good.
Felunyx does not want to decide there is one correct organization for everyone. Workspaces, window modes, profiles and future Work Environments are meant to let the workflow change without turning the system into a pile of hacks.
Dynamic workspaces that can represent context instead of just numbers on a bar.
Floating, Snap, Tiling, Rolling and Monocle cover very different ways of organizing the same screen.
Work Environments are future work for reopening supported context explicitly and honestly, including when restoration is only partial.
Built in public
Felunyx is still being built. The site should look like it.
No hiding the project until an ISO magically appears “finished”. The active phase, decisions and pending proof stay visible — including the days when progress is mostly figuring out why boot chose violence.
In development
Prove that the Felunyx foundation can become a reproducible ISO that boots, installs and comes back through GRUB without pretending the rest already exists.
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Recently
The primary identity is now the F.
The lynx remains the mascot and secondary emblem. The primary mark stays simple enough to work from favicon to splash.
The compositor strategy became less self-destructive.
The plan now starts from a mature Wayland foundation and keeps what actually defines the experience in Felunyx: workspaces, layouts, focus, stacks, restoration and policy.
The ISO boot failure stopped being “something broke”.
The problem was traced to microcode/initrd paths that did not exist in the final image. The fix remains in a Phase 2 PR until the right gates pass.
In development
The native DE is the destination. It is not the toll booth for using Felunyx.
We want a native desktop with Floating, Snap, Tiling, Rolling, Monocle, stacks and dynamic workspaces. The distro still needs to be good before that exists, so KDE remains the initial reference while this track matures.
Play with the concepts in PlaygroundFloatingSnapTilingRollingMonocle
Free. Open source. Welcoming.
Free
No artificial lock-in invented to stop you from controlling something that is already yours.
Open source
Code and technical decisions stay inspectable. Hiding the important bits on top of an open base would be pretty weird.
Welcoming
Technical does not have to mean hostile. People should be able to learn, use and contribute without gatekeeping becoming a product feature.
There is no Download yet — because there is no public release to download.
Felunyx is still in Phase 2, proving the reproducible ISO foundation. We would rather show progress and missing proof than put up a giant button pretending roadmap items are already product.