SweetPotatOs 2026.11

SweetPotatOs is a lightweight, Arch-based Linux distribution designed specifically for older computers. It uses a Wayland tiling compositor called Swirl (a fork of Sway and Scroll) with a layout inspired by niri. The distribution can be installed to a hard disk with the help of the Calamares system installer. In its default state, SweetPotatOs ships a number of popular applications, including the Firefox web browser, the Gimp image editor and the Transmission bittorrent client. It also includes Shelly, a graphical package management utility.