- Nitrux is 64-bit-only Linux desktop distribution built from Debian. It uses the Calamares installer and, since version 5.0.0, includes the Hyprland window manager, Hypr utilities, greetd +QtGreet (minimal and flexible login manager daemon), and Waybar (highly customizable Wayland bar).
- It emphasizes the use of AppBoxes to manage end-user software. OpenRC replaces Systemd for the init system being judge to be a simpler init and service manager.
- A suite of convergent applications called Maui Apps is included in Nitrux. The Nitrux's team uses MauiKit , their free and open-source convergent, cross-platform UI framework, to create those applications.
- It uses of the latest Debian base (testing) and a performance-oriented kernel configurations to stay up-to-date. “inodes” can be placed anywhere on the filesystem, zstd compression at level 6, and verification of compressed blocks using a checksum to prevent corruption.
- Nitrux is an immutable Linux distribution (a system that, once installed, cannot be modified), through NX Overlayroot , which enables new distribution versions with greater accuracy. It makes the system more resistant to tampering, malware, and simplifies maintenance.
- Additionally, Nitrux enables asynchronous garbage collection by default to avoid synchronous updates to access or modification times and zswap. It modifies the rate at which the kernel reclaims VFS caches, enabling asynchronous, non-blocking I/O, and reducing the aggressiveness of the kernel's swapping out anonymous memory relative to pagecache and other caches.










