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CatOS Linux Review

💻 Dağıtım: CatOS (Arch Based) | ⚡ Karmaşıklık: Orta / Medium | ⏱️ Süre: 5 dk

OS Type: Linux
Base: Arch
Origin: China
Architecture: x86_64
Desktop: KDE Plasma
Category: Desktop, Live Medium
Status: Active
Popularity: 408 (32 days visits)

CatOS is a Chinese Linux distribution based on Arch Linux and featuring a customised KDE Plasma desktop. Its main characteristics include out-of-the-box support for simplified Chinese input method, Calamares system installer, custom software repositories, and support for virtualization. It also provides a choice of Linux kernels, including the long-term supported variant, as well as mainline, Zen and hardened kernels. CatOS intends to be a user-friendly Linux distribution, especially for Chinese-speaking users.

# Why should you prefer CatOS?

CatOS is much more than Arch Linux with a pre-installed desktop environment. By bringing together the installer, desktop presets, software repositories, hardware support, and commonly used tools in a single distribution, it allows the system to be usable right after installation while maintaining the openness and customizability of Arch Linux.

📤 Ready to use out of the box, but with no user restrictions.
By providing a Chinese input environment, distribution themes, icons, wallpapers, common hardware components, software repositories, and graphical tools by default, CatOS reduces the work of configuring every single element from the base system. These default configurations do not hide how Arch Linux works. Users can directly use pacman, AUR, ArchWiki, and standard system configuration files.

💻 Choices are still in your hands during the graphical installation.
CatOS uses a custom Calamares graphical installer. The default installation is suitable for users who want to complete the deployment quickly; advanced installation configurations can be selected during the installation phase.
- Desktop environment or command-line system;
- CatOS standard software repository or CatOS + CachyOS optimized software repository;
- Input methods and Shell;
- Additional kernels such as LTS, Mainline, Zen, and Hardened;
- Virtualization, containers, development, and common desktop software.
These choices are made during the installation phase, eliminating the need to install a large default system first and then manually remove unnecessary components.

🖥️ Fully from desktop to Wayland workflow
The current CatOS installer offers a choice of 15 graphical desktops or window managers, as well as a base system option with no graphical desktop. These include KDE Plasma, GNOME, Xfce, Cinnamon, Niri + DMS, Hyprland + DMS, Sway, Labwc, and Wayfire.

🎮 Provides specific images for modern NVIDIA graphics cards.
CatOS 2026.07.19 is available as both standard and NVIDIA versions. The NVIDIA version is recommended for GTX 16, RTX 20 to RTX 40 series. For the RTX 50 series and newer models, the NVIDIA version is mandatory.

🏵️ Arch Linux ecosystem and CatOS software repository
CatOS inherits Arch Linux's rolling release model, official repositories, and AUR ecosystem, and is delivered using a separate CatOS software repository. The system includes `yay` and `paru` by default.

🧰 Designed for development, virtualization, and container usage.
Advanced installation configurations allow you to directly select QEMU/KVM, Virt-Manager, VirtualBox, Docker, Podman, additional kernels, development tools, and commonly used shells.

🛠️ Configuration details available; customizations welcome.
CatOS installer configurations, desktop presets, themes, and system tools are publicly maintained within the CatOS-dev organization. The desktop experience is a repository of packages and configurations that can be viewed, discussed, and improved independently.

Sistem Bilgisi / System Info
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📄 /etc/os-release
NAME="CatOS"
ID="catos"
ID_LIKE="arch"
PRETTY_NAME="CatOS Linux"
🏷️ CatOS 🏷️ ArchLinux 🏷️ KDE Plasma
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