Your questions, answered

DraftOS is an independent, Arch-based Linux distribution built around the COSMIC desktop. It ships its own tuned packages, first-party apps and tools, and comes in two editions — a flexible Desktop and a self-healing Immutable — that share the same experience.

COSMIC — a modern, fast desktop we tailor into our own cohesive experience through theming, defaults and our own applications. That means real glass and transparency, a consistent look, and apps that feel like one product.

Yes — completely free and open source under GPL-3.0, developed in public. Support is welcome via donations.

No. DraftOS has no trackers and sends no data about your usage. No analytics “by default”.

We design the whole thing as one product: our own theme and defaults, our own apps and tools, our own tuned packages, and two editions built from a shared core. You get a finished, coherent system instead of parts you assemble and maintain yourself.

DraftOS is in early, active development. Early builds appear on the releases page as they're ready — great for trying and testing, but not yet something to rely on as your only system. The Desktop edition comes first; Immutable follows.

Pick Desktop for full control and the widest software choice; pick Immutable if you'd rather it simply stay working with atomic updates and instant rollback. Either way you get the same COSMIC desktop — see the comparison.

Because both editions share the same desktop, apps and look, moving between them means a quick reinstall — with nothing new to relearn. Your files in your home folder carry over.

Roughly a modern 64-bit PC: 4 GB RAM (8+ recommended), around 25 GB of disk, and UEFI. A reasonably recent GPU helps the desktop feel its best.

Through our first-party app store. The Desktop edition also opens up a huge software library; the Immutable edition leans on sandboxed apps and containers to keep its core clean.

You roll back. The Immutable edition boots the previous version in one step; the Desktop edition keeps automatic snapshots you can restore from.

DraftOS ships a modern graphics stack and current drivers, and the self-healing Immutable edition suits gaming and media machines well. Expect this to get stronger as the project matures.

DraftOS uses a recent kernel and up-to-date drivers, so most modern hardware is covered. Support keeps broadening as development continues — testing on your machine and reporting back genuinely helps.