praxis os

i've been on linux for a while. arch, gentoo, void, alpine. all good. but every one of them still hides things from you. you run pacstrap or emerge --syncand a bunch of stuff happens that you didn't write.

praxis is the version where you don't get a wizard. you boot the iso, drop into a shell, partition the disk yourself, run praxis-install, write your fstab, build the initramfs, chroot in, write your loader entries, and reboot. five explicit stages. each gated on the previous. no step is automated beyond what it strictly has to do.

live environment is praxis-owned kernel + busybox userspace. full toolkit: praxis-status, preflight, praxis-disk-report, praxis-netcheck, praxis-support, praxis-fetch. package layer is pacman repos — xfce, gnome, plasma, i3, openbox, budgie, and more. a real source-based format is coming with pax.

the short version

boot the iso. fdisk, mkfs, mount. praxis-install --hostname <name> /mnt/praxis. write fstab. mkinitrd /mnt/praxis. praxis-chroot /mnt/praxis. set passwd, locale, timezone. exit. write loader entries. bootctl install. targetcheck. reboot.

if you skip a stage the next one fails. that's on purpose. the full walkthrough is in docs/install.

should you use it

if you want a working linux machine and don't want to think about it, install arch or debian. they're great.

if you want a system you fully understand, where every step is yours and every file was put there because you put it there, this is for you. test it in qemu first. docs/qemu.