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Linux has become untenable.
Infighting, political mandates, age verification proposals, pre-compiled binary blobs, endless bloat, and a growing disregard for actual security have turned what was once a tool for sovereignty into something else entirely.
Ubuntu now feels like Windows with extra steps. Even Arch, the distro I built ArchRiot on, is showing the same fractures.
For anyone who values control over their own machine, this is no longer acceptable.
It's time to start a Riot on OpenBSD.
OpenRiot is a complete, one-command desktop recreation of ArchRiot, but built on OpenBSD 7.8+.
Same philosophy -- minimal, themed, tiling, privacy-first, but running on the most audited, stable, and sovereign Unix-like OS still standing.
No blobs. No telemetry. No compromise.
Why OpenBSD?
Because every line in the base system is audited.
Pledge and unveil enforce least privilege by design.
Softraid CRYPTO gives real full-disk encryption without the complexity creep of LUKS.
The release model is predictable, not rolling chaos.
And the defaults are secure out of the box -- exactly what serious users have been missing since the first Linux distro.
OpenRiot delivers
• Sway + Waybar tiling desktop with full CypherRiot theming
• Native WiFi, suspend, trackpoint, power management
• Fish, Neovim (fully configured and themed), Firefox or Ungoogled Chromium, btop, foot terminal, and dozens more "just works" pre-installed applications
• One-command post-install script or a pre-built installation ISO, just like ArchRiot
Your sovereignty, your rules. No distribution politics involved.
This isn’t a downgrade. It’s a deliberate upgrade in stability and reliability.
We are removing the Hyprland rice and porting everything cleanly to Sway.
The system stays lean, fast, and auditable -- the way a desktop should be when you actually depend on it.
OpenRiot is for people who use their machines as extensions of their own sovereignty.
If you’re tired of distros that treat you like a user instead of an owner, this is for you.
No marketing fluff. No identity nonsense. Just code that respects you.
We've spend hours turning OpenBSD into a system that just works from the initial install and looks and feels like a modern desktop, just like we did with ArchRiot.
Full documentation, setup script, ISO, and and open source repository dropping sometime in April or May 2026 at OpenRiot.org.
Until then, the website is updated constantly with progress, including hardware requirements, best-practices, and much more.
The riot continues. Now it’s built on a foundation that doesn't bend to politics or convenience.
Security. Stability. Control.
A Functional OpenBSD Desktop System.
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