c-ludenberg
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why the FUCK did i think making an init selector was a good idea
artix themselves dont even ship services in their online installer
they just give you a bare system and say "figure it out" and
it WORKS because people can just install their init of choice
afterwards. but nooooo i had to be clever and build a whole
netinstall-add monstrosity with openrc/runit/s6 service groups
that broke constantly because basestrap --overwrite is a lie
and init packages conflict with each other and sddm-openrc +
lightdm-openrc both Provide: init-displaymanager and pacman
just goes 🖕 during install.
so anyway. dinit only now. you want something else? read
changing-init.md, i literally copied the artix wiki tutorial.
i am not maintaining four init service groups in netinstall.yaml
for the rest of my life. this is my villain origin story.
actual changes:
- ripped out offline calamares mode (was never truly offline)
- ripped out packagechooser.conf (good fucking riddance)
- added packagechooser_dm.conf so you can at least pick your DM
- added BYODE offline installer (bare system + btrfs + snapper,
no DE, you pacman -Sy plasma-meta yourself)
- added yay + snapper + btrfs-progs to rootfs
- shoved Init Services + DM groups into netinstall.yaml (dinit
only, obviously)
- updated every markdown file that mentioned another init like
they were cursed (they were)
- wrote changing-init.md so i can just paste the link next time
someone asks
- X-KDE-IsAdminApplication=true so KDE stops acting like
calamares is a virus (its not, its just desperate)
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Antergos NeXT
A community revival of Antergos for the post-systemd era — Artix Linux base with Dinit, KDE Plasma, and the Calamares installer.
Download
Download the latest ISO Published to GitHub Releases. ISO also archived on the Internet Archive.
First stable release — v2026.07.11
This is the first stable ISO. What works:
- KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland (with SDDM)
- Full audio support on installed systems
- Custom SDDM theme (Antergos brand, not Breeze)
- Correct
/usr/lib/os-release(shows "Antergos NeXT", not "Artix Linux") - Choose your desktop (Plasma/Xfce/Cinnamon/MATE/LXQt/i3/Sway/Hyprland/COSMIC)
- GRUB with Antergos theme
- Custom Calamares slideshow
- Xlibre X server included
Quick links
- Building the ISO — set up and build locally
- Installer — Calamares modes, init & DE selectors
- Custom packages — PKGBUILDs, pipewire fork, branding
- CI/CD — GitHub Actions pipeline, Internet Archive upload
- Development — contributing, gotchas, conventions
Learn about Antergos NeXT
- Init Systems — Dinit, OpenRC, S6, Runit compared
- Desktop Environments — available DEs in online mode
- Wallpapers — where they go, how they work
What changed from original Antergos
| Area | Original Antergos | Antergos NeXT |
|---|---|---|
| Base | Arch Linux (systemd) | Artix Linux (Dinit / OpenRC / Runit / S6) |
| Default init | systemd | Dinit |
| Desktop | GNOME | KDE Plasma |
| Installer | Custom Cnchi | Calamares |
| Build system | archiso | artools (buildiso) |
| Display server | X11 | Wayland (X11 via Xlibre) |
Project scope
This repo (antergos-iso) contains the ISO build configuration — overlays, Calamares modules, pacman config, CI pipeline. Custom PKGBUILDs live in the separate antergos-packages repo.