🐧 Andy's GNOME

An immutable, atomic Linux distro built for work and play. Based on Bazzite GNOME and powered by bootc.

This is the GNOME variant — same developer toolchain as TuxLinux (KDE), but running GNOME with full theming and extension support.

Andy's GNOME ships a full developer toolchain, gaming-ready GPU support, and a curated set of tools — all baked into an atomic image that updates reliably and rolls back instantly.

What's Included

Developer Tools

• Languages: Go, Rust, Node.js, Python, Java 17/21
• Editors: VS Code, Vim
• Terminal: WezTerm, tmux, Zsh, Starship prompt
• Tools: Git, GitHub CLI, Lazygit, ripgrep, fzf, bat, eza, fd, jq, yq, htop, btop, git-delta, hyperfine, yt-dlp
• Build: GCC, C development tools, development-tools group
• Tauri: Full build deps (WebKitGTK, OpenSSL, GTK3, librsvg, pango)

Containers

• Podman + podman-compose
• Distrobox

GNOME Theming & Extensions

• GNOME Tweaks
• GNOME Extensions App
• sassc (SASS compiler for GTK themes)
• glib2-devel (GLib development headers)
• optipng (PNG optimizer)
• dialog (TUI dialog boxes)
• gtk-murrine-engine & gtk2-engines (theme engines)

Networking

• Cloudflare Tunnel client (cloudflared)

System

• Immutable base — OS updates are atomic images, not package-by-package
• Automatic rollback if an update breaks something
• Gaming-ready with Steam, Lutris, and GPU optimizations from Bazzite

Based On

Andy's GNOME is built on top of Bazzite GNOME, which brings:

• AMD/NVIDIA GPU drivers out of the box
• Steam, Lutris, and gaming optimizations
• Wayland + GNOME desktop
• Hardware-accelerated codecs

Installation

Switch from an existing Bazzite/Fedora Atomic system:

sudo bootc switch ghcr.io/tuxclaw/andysgnome

Rebase from an existing Fedora Atomic system:

rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/tuxclaw/andysgnome:latest

Then reboot.

Related

• TuxLinux — The KDE Plasma variant (upstream)