c-ludenberg
442980a7af
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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title: Home
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# Antergos NeXT
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A community revival of Antergos for the post-systemd era — **Artix Linux** base with **Dinit**, **KDE Plasma**, and the **Calamares** installer.
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## Download
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[**Download the latest ISO**](https://github.com/Antergos-NeXT/antergos-iso/releases)
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_Published to GitHub Releases. ISO also archived on the Internet Archive._
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### First stable release — v2026.07.11
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This is the first stable ISO. What works:
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- KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland (with SDDM)
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- Full audio support on installed systems
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- Custom SDDM theme (Antergos brand, not Breeze)
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- Correct `/usr/lib/os-release` (shows "Antergos NeXT", not "Artix Linux")
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- Choose your desktop (Plasma/Xfce/Cinnamon/MATE/LXQt/i3/Sway/Hyprland/COSMIC)
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- GRUB with Antergos theme
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- Custom Calamares slideshow
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- Xlibre X server included
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## Quick links
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- [Building the ISO](building) — set up and build locally
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- [Installer](installer) — Calamares modes, init & DE selectors
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- [Custom packages](packages) — PKGBUILDs, pipewire fork, branding
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- [CI/CD](ci) — GitHub Actions pipeline, Internet Archive upload
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- [Development](development) — contributing, gotchas, conventions
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## Learn about Antergos NeXT
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- [Init Systems](init-systems) — Dinit, OpenRC, S6, Runit compared
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- [Desktop Environments](desktop-environments) — available DEs in online mode
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- [Wallpapers](wallpapers) — where they go, how they work
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## What changed from original Antergos
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| Area | Original Antergos | Antergos NeXT |
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| Base | Arch Linux (systemd) | Artix Linux (Dinit / OpenRC / Runit / S6) |
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| Default init | systemd | Dinit |
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| Desktop | GNOME | KDE Plasma |
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| Installer | Custom Cnchi | Calamares |
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| Build system | archiso | artools (`buildiso`) |
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| Display server | X11 | Wayland (X11 via Xlibre) |
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## Project scope
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This repo (`antergos-iso`) contains the ISO build configuration — overlays, Calamares modules, pacman config, CI pipeline. Custom PKGBUILDs live in the separate [antergos-packages](https://github.com/Antergos-NeXT/antergos-packages) repo.
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## Sources
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- [Artix Linux](https://artixlinux.org)
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- [artools](https://gitea.artixlinux.org/artix/artools)
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- [Calamares](https://codeberg.org/calamares/calamares)
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- [antergos-packages](https://github.com/Antergos-NeXT/antergos-packages)
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- [Original Antergos wallpapers](https://github.com/Antergos/wallpapers)
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