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Based 3.1.3, for 64-bit PCs (amd64). Each image is a live system: it boots to the edition's desktop, and you install from there. Images for ARM machines come later.
| Edition | Desktop | Base | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| Based GNOME | GNOME | Debian 13 | ISO, 3.9 GB |
| Based Plasma | KDE Plasma | Debian 13 | ISO, 3.3 GB |
| Based sway | sway and Omarchy's shell | Debian 13 | ISO, 3.2 GB |
| Based SwayFX | SwayFX and Omarchy's shell | Debian 13 | ISO, 3.2 GB |
| Based Zorin look | Zorin's desktop on GNOME | Ubuntu 26.04 | ISO, 4.1 GB |
| Based Dev on SwayFX | SwayFX and Omarchy's shell | Debian 13 | ISO, 4.9 GB |
| Based Dev on Zorin look | Zorin's desktop on GNOME | Ubuntu 26.04 | ISO, 5.2 GB |
| Based Chicago95 | XFCE as Windows 95 | Debian 13 | ISO, 2.3 GB |
| Based WhiteSur | KDE Plasma as macOS | Debian 13 | ISO, 3.0 GB |
| SwayOS | sway, stock | Debian 13 | ISO, 2.2 GB |
| Omarchy on Debian | Hyprland and Omarchy | Debian 13 | ISO, 3.0 GB |
Every image is about 2 to 5 GB. You need a USB stick at least that big, 15 GB of disk to install to, and 1 GB of RAM (4 GB for the Dev editions).
Check the image
Each ISO sits next to a .sha256 file with the same name. Download both into one
folder and run:
sha256sum -c live-image-amd64.hybrid.iso.sha256It should print live-image-amd64.hybrid.iso: OK. On a Mac,
shasum -a 256 -c does the same job.
Write it to a USB stick
Any tool that writes a raw disk image works: GNOME Disks' Restore Disk Image, balenaEtcher,
or dd. Everything on the stick gets overwritten, so check the device name twice.
sudo dd if=live-image-amd64.hybrid.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress conv=fsyncInstall it
Boot from the stick and you land on the edition's desktop, live, with nothing written to your disk. The installer is on the desktop, named for the edition: Install Based Home, Install Based Dev, and so on. It erases the disk you pick and lays it out with btrfs unless you tell it otherwise. It doesn't offer disk encryption in this release.
The Debian editions also carry the Debian installer on the boot menu, for when you'd rather not start a desktop at all. The Zorin look editions are Ubuntu, so they have the live installer only.