Ingredients
Here's what you get in OhMyDebn by default:
- Base OS: Debian-based distro for stability and compatibility (including systemd-free Devuan and LCOS)
- Desktop environment: Cinnamon for a premium desktop experience
- Desktop themes: beautiful themes from Omarchy and Fausto Korpsvart
- Desktop icons: artfully polished icons from Linux Mint
- Theme builder: Aether by Bjarne Ă˜verli
- Terminal emulator: Alacritty with Caskaydia Nerd Fonts
- Shell: Zsh with Oh My Zsh
- Shell prompt: Starship
- Text editors: gedit and neovim with LazyVim
- Performance monitoring: btop
- Application launcher: custom GTK app launcher
- Shell cat command alternative: bat with syntax highlighting
- Shell commands for directories: Zoxide for a smarter
cdcommand and eza for beautiful directory listings - Web browser: Brave Origin with its built-in Shields content blocker
- Password management: KeePassXC
- Default image viewer: Ristretto
- PDF editor: Xournal++
- System summary: fastfetch
- Window automation: xdotool
- Firewall: ufw with default deny for inbound traffic
- Eye candy: dazzling terminal effects via ttfx for demoscene nostalgia
- Audio visualizer: Cava
Your base distro may add more. For example, most of them turn on AppArmor mandatory access control (LCOS doesn't), and some include the Rhythmbox music player.
Here are some additional components that you can optionally install:
- AI: OpenCode with free and paid models, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Pi, Oh My Pi, Grok Build, T3 Code, VS Code with GitHub Copilot AI, Antigravity with Google Agentic AI
- VPN: Cloudflare WARP or Tailscale
- Virtualization: run virtual machines via Boxes or Virtual Machine Manager
- Containerization: run containers via Docker or Podman
- Terminal music player: cliamp
- Image editor: GIMP
- Text editor: Emacs
- Remote access: SSH server, Remote Desktop server and client
- anything from the massive Debian repo!