One desktop.
One way to do things.
The Adelon Operating System (AOS) is for people who want a computer that works — for games, for work, for anything — without ever opening a terminal.
No telemetry · No account · Made in Sweden
Privacy first · Made in Sweden
A computer that answers to you.
Not to an advertiser, not to a cloud account, not to us. These are decisions written into AOS's policies and enforced in its code — not settings you have to go looking for.
Nothing about you leaves
No telemetry, no usage data, no crash reports. On its own, AOS only looks for updates and the time, and neither request says anything about you. That's a promise for every release.
No account, anywhere
AOS needs no sign-in with any company — not with us either. And it answers nothing on the network that it didn't ask for.
Nothing to sell you
No ads in the menus, no cloud upsell, no assistant you didn't ask for. You bought a computer, not a storefront.
Your keys, your data
Every home folder is encrypted with its owner's password. The recovery key is shown once and stored nowhere else — not even with us.
Updates when you say so
Updates are offered, never forced. No surprise restart in the middle of a meeting, and every update can be undone.
Made in Sweden, under EU law
Built and maintained in Sweden, under Swedish law and the GDPR. The privacy policy lists every request that can leave the machine.
Built so it can't fall apart.
Most systems offer several desktops, several package formats and several ways to configure the same thing. AOS offers one. That's what makes "install it and it works" possible.
Updates that undo themselves
AOS keeps two copies of the system. An update goes to the other one and starts on trial. If it doesn't reach the desktop, the machine falls back by itself. Install once, never reinstall.
Encrypted by default
Every account's home folder is its own encrypted vault, with a recovery key shown once. The whole disk can be encrypted too, and the TPM unlocks it where there is one.
Secure from the first boot
Secure Boot with a signed kernel for each system slot, a read-only core verified as it's read, and a CVE report with every release.
Apps in their own sandbox
Third-party programs get a private home. They see your folders only when you grant them, and the camera and microphone only when you allow it.
A desktop of its own
Compositor, shell, toolkit, settings, store, installer and the everyday apps — written from scratch in Rust, made to feel like one thing.
The software you expect
Firefox, Chrome, Steam, VS Code, LibreOffice, GIMP, Telegram and more, one click away in Software, clearly marked as third-party.
Set up in minutes.
Keyboard, time zone, your account, done. The installer is the first-boot setup, so there's nothing to learn twice. After that, updates arrive through Software like any app.
An honest alpha.
The foundations are done and have survived dozens of releases. A few things are still on the way — here is what to expect before you try it:
- Installing takes the whole disk. No dual boot yet.
- The first start with Secure Boot asks you to enrol the AOS key once.
- English and Swedish only.
Try it on a USB stick.
Free to download. Runs live before it touches your disk.
Download AOS