Systemd-Free Nitrux 5.0 Officially Released with Hyprland Desktop, Linux 6.17

Posted by hanuca on Nov 17, 2025 2:47 PM EDT
9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor
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After many months of hard work, Uri Herrera announced today the general availability of Nitrux 5.0 as a major update to this immutable and systemd-free distribution.

Nitrux 5.0 is the first release to drop the KDE Plasma desktop environment and ship with Hyprland by default, a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor, using greetd as a minimal Wayland login manager, Waybar as a highly customizable Wayland bar, Wlogout as a logout menu, and Crystal Dock as a dock, and Wofi as an application launcher.

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