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DistroWatch.com: Abora OS
Last Update: 2026-08-29 16:40 UTC abora-4.0-2026.07.27-cosmic (more screenshots in our gallery) OS Type: Linux Based on: NixOS Origin: Unknown Architecture: x86_64 Desktop: Awesome, bspwm, Budgie, Cinnamon, COSMIC, Fluxbox, GNOME, herbstluftwm, Hyprland, i3, IceWM, KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE, niri, Openbox, Pantheon, Qtile, River, Sway, Xfce Category: Declarative, Desktop, Server Status: Active Popularity: 199 (77 hits per day) Abora OS is general-purpose Linux distribution based on NixOS. It boots into a text-mode installation wizard that offers the user various options, including a choice of over 20 desktop environments, window managers and Wayland compositors, as well as several application bundles for a range of use cases. Some of the distribution’s other features include out-of-the-box support for flatpak packages, Limine bootloader, command-line system management layer called ANIX, application management layer called TinyPM, and several custom Abora system management tools. Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 375 (38), 6 months: 199 (77), 3 months: 82 (155), 4 weeks: 135 (104), 1 week: 61 (231) Visitor rating: No visitor rating given yet. Rate this project.

DistroWatch.com: Abora OS

Last Update: 2026-08-29 16:40 UTC

abora-4.0-2026.07.27-cosmic
(more screenshots in our gallery)

Abora OS

OS Type: Linux
Based on: NixOS
Origin: Unknown
Architecture: x86_64
Desktop: Awesome, bspwm, Budgie, Cinnamon, COSMIC, Fluxbox, GNOME, herbstluftwm, Hyprland, i3, IceWM, KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE, niri, Openbox, Pantheon, Qtile, River, Sway, Xfce
Category: Declarative, Desktop, Server
Status: Active
Popularity: 199 (77 hits per day)

Abora OS is general-purpose Linux distribution based on NixOS. It boots into a text-mode installation wizard that offers the user various options, including a choice of over 20 desktop environments, window managers and Wayland compositors, as well as several application bundles for a range of use cases. Some of the distribution’s other features include out-of-the-box support for flatpak packages, Limine bootloader, command-line system management layer called ANIX, application management layer called TinyPM, and several custom Abora system management tools.

Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 375 (38), 6 months: 199 (77), 3 months: 82 (155), 4 weeks: 135 (104), 1 week: 61 (231)

Visitor rating: No visitor rating given yet. Rate this project.

Table Notes and Explanations
(Please refer to the table below.) To compare the software in this project to the software available in other distributions, please see our Compare Packages page. Notes: In case where multiple versions of a package are shipped with a distribution, only the default version appears in the table. For indication about the GNOME version, please check the “nautilus” and “gnome-shell” packages. The Apache web server is listed as “httpd” and the Linux kernel is listed as “linux”. The KDE desktop is represented by the “plasma-desktop” package and the Xfce desktop by the “xfdesktop” package. Colour scheme: green text = latest stable version, red text = development or beta version. The function determining beta versions is not 100% reliable due to a wide variety of versioning schemes.

Table Notes and Explanations

(Please refer to the table below.)

To compare the software in this project to the software available in other distributions, please see our Compare Packages page.

Notes: In case where multiple versions of a package are shipped with a distribution, only the default version appears in the table. For indication about the GNOME version, please check the “nautilus” and “gnome-shell” packages. The Apache web server is listed as “httpd” and the Linux kernel is listed as “linux”. The KDE desktop is represented by the “plasma-desktop” package and the Xfce desktop by the “xfdesktop” package.

Colour scheme: green text = latest stable version, red text = development or beta version. The function determining beta versions is not 100% reliable due to a wide variety of versioning schemes.

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