AnduinOS 2.0 beta offers speed, privacy and an easy Windows-to-Linux transition

AnduinOS 2.0 beta is available after what the developer describes as a ground-up architectural rewrite. The team says it reimagined how the distribution is built, distributed and maintained in response to community feedback. The release is assembled within a sandboxed debootstrap and chroot pipeline and uses a proprietary XML-based declarative domain-specific language plus an automated compilation toolchain to modularize the core into 56 standalone native .deb packages.

The build process enforces a hard-fail policy that aborts ISO generation if any unwanted Ubuntu packages are detected, designed to ensure a pristine ISO and strengthen privacy protections. On the desktop, GNOME has been refashioned to resemble Windows 11, and the beta ships with no bloatware or tracking.

Default apps include Firefox, a text editor, GNOME Software, a music player, a video player and a few utilities, with Flatpak support enabled out of the box. The experience is notably fast: apps open immediately and file indexing is described as lightning-quick.

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