Built on the belief that power and simplicity are not opposites.
Arch Linux is, by many measures, the best distribution available. Rolling releases, a minimal base, the AUR, great documentation. The catch: getting it to a usable desktop takes hours of wiki reading and config file editing before you can open a browser.
Most user-friendly distros solve this by adding bloat — heavy DEs, app stores that abstract too much, update managers that break things. Archaeus does something simpler.
Keep Arch exactly as it is. Add a control center for the common tasks. Touch nothing else.
pacman, yay, the AUR, every config file — all intact. The ACC is additive only.
Every ACC click runs a real shell command. Install something and you see the yay output streaming in the log.
Hyprland, Kitty, JetBrains Mono Nerd Font, amber palette — good choices, out of the box. Change them any time.
The warm dark palette, rounded corners, blur — these are part of the spec, not an afterthought. Every component matches.
Designer and sole developer of Archaeus. Also built Swancord (Vencord fork), InvokerZERO, 7n7.dev, and a number of other tools in the 7n7 ecosystem.
Archaeus is open source. If you want to contribute — ISO tweaks, ACC features, theme improvements — open a PR on GitHub.
Hours of wiki reading, manual partitioning, Hyprland config hunting, dotfile scraping. The question: why is there no distro that ships this pre-configured, with a GUI for the maintenance tasks?
The Archaeus Control Center concept takes shape — five panels, an Electron app, real shell commands under the hood. Aesthetic direction set: warm dark, coffee shop, every component matching.
130-package ISO profile, full Hyprland config (rounding, blur, amber borders, keybinds), Kitty theme, Waybar, Starship prompt, SDDM theme, TUI installer, and ACC Electron app with all five panels built and tested in VMs.
Bootable ISO, GitHub releases, real hardware testing. The ACC launches on first boot and the rest is up to you.
The ISO build scripts, ACC source, all Hyprland/Kitty/Waybar configs, the SDDM theme, and the TUI installer — all on GitHub under GPLv3. Fork it, build on it, contribute to it.