Ryoku arch is reaching new heights, you are welcome to join us in this journey.

Now support for:
ISO - CachyOS
ISO - Arch
ISO - Nix (almost)

SCRIPT INSTALLER - Works from Cachy, Arch and Nix (flakes)

https://ryoku.dev/

Thank you everyone for your kind support.

Ps. I will not accept features request that are mundane and specific to you and your liking, I do takes features requests that genuinely elevate the experience of our community.

I just switched from Windows recently. Tried Linux Mint first, then wanted to try Ryoku since it's Arch-based and looked really customizable. So this is coming from someone who left Windows and is seeing this stuff for the first time, not from a dev.

The installer was genuinely easier and clearer than Mint's, which surprised me.

The customization is really cool. Being able to just drop in your own wallpaper and have the whole system's colors change to match it is a great feature. I liked messing with that.

Performance was rough for me, but that's on my end — I'm on an older laptop with 4GB RAM, and I know that's below what you'd need for a smooth experience. Typing and loading pages had noticeable lag. Not a knock on Ryoku, just a heads up for anyone on similar low-end hardware.

Since I'm brand new to this whole tiling window manager thing (never used Hyprland or anything like it), there was a real learning curve just figuring out basics like closing a window or opening the terminal — Because i didn't feel like reading the keybinds list, and once I did that everything felt way more manageable.

Overall, solid experience for a beta. Liked it more than I expected.

Hey, actually I don't know much about Plymouth. And I really do want the naked codes running boot up. So, how can I remove the plymouth? Also I want to change how limine looks like. I don't want it red/orange. I want it grey and white yk like local grub. Can anyone help? Please

Edit, typo on the date, it’s 30th

Thank you guys for supporting Ryoku I never expected to so many to like it even though reviews by other YouTubers were poorly made and people criticized because of that.

You check out beta 19 logs here:

https://github.com/neur0map/ryoku-arch/releases/tag/unstable

Hey everyone

I just opened a discussion on GitHub but wanted to cross-post here to get more visibility and hear what others think.

The TL;DR

Ryoku defaults to Fish. Great for a lot of people. But if you prefer Zsh, especially for paru completions, OMZ-style arrow-key menu navigation, or POSIX compatibility, you have to manually configure everything from scratch. That includes editing kitty.conf, writing your own .zshrc, and hunting down plugins individually.

What I'm proposing

1. A shell selector in Ryoku Settings

Ryoku Settings already has toggles for system daemons, like the iwd / wpa_supplicant one in the network section. A shell selector in the same spirit would let you pick Zsh or Fish without leaving Settings. On switch, it would update kitty.conf from shell /usr/bin/fish to shell /usr/bin/zsh (or vice versa) and handle chsh behind the scenes.

2. A pre-configured .zshrc that mirrors the Fish experience

Same prompt styling, same colors, same git status. Just ported to Zsh. Bracketed paste enabled by default so Ctrl+V works out of the box:

autoload -Uz bracketed-paste
zle -N bracketed-paste
bindkey '^V' bracketed-paste

3. A Shell Bundle in Ryostore

This is the exciting part. A one-click bundle in the Bundles tab (same flow as Gaming, The Influencer, and CachyOS Layer) that installs:

• Oh My Zsh
• zsh-syntax-highlighting
• zsh-autosuggestions
• zsh-autocomplete

These are the ones I personally use, but the bundle could easily be expanded to include many more Zsh plugins for users to choose from. Installing adds the plugin layer on top of the Ryoku-styled .zshrc. Uninstalling cleanly removes them without breaking the base config.

Why this matters

People who have used Zsh (and Oh My Zsh) for years, or who specifically ditched Fish for Zsh to get richer completions and menu-based autocompletion, have to manually replicate the entire Ryoku Fish experience. Zsh is the default on macOS and a first-class option on most distros. Ryostore is already designed for one-click bundles, so a Shell Bundle fits the existing pattern perfectly. Being able to use Zsh natively with Ryoku (dynamic wallpaper retinting, live prompt changes, etc.) would make the desktop feel cohesive regardless of which shell you pick.

Full details and discussion on GitHub #94 (link at the top)

Would love to hear if others would use this. If you're a Zsh user on Ryoku, how are you currently handling your setup?

so I'm using hp 15s-du3032tu with intel i5-1135G7, 100gb M2. NVME used for Ryoku, 8GB DDR4 ram and Graphics as integrated Iris Xe GPU. i loved the ryoku setup it's amazing but in idle state the temp of CPU is 60-65°C and when i open a browser it goes hits 70°C and with some applications upto 80°C-85°C. And even while working in terminal the temps hit from 60° to 85°C in a second and i genuinely don't know if this is due to Ryoku power management even when I'm on power save mode or my machine isn't good enough for running Ryoku.

After starting up my machine from being idle for 10 hours, I checked the time for my battery life and it said '4h 37m' with a 67% charge. Within 15 minutes, I am down to '1h 38 m' and a 55% charge.

I am using a ThinkPad T480s with 8gb ram and 256gb storage. Having used arch without ryoku, I had about 7 hours of battery life at full charge. What setting/ system is eating my battery and how can I fix this?

I got a new laptop and my PC's configs were too hardcoded to my PC. Started using Ryoku. Pretty neat it has some issues with display states but pretty stable otherwise. The RAM and CPU consumption is definately higher than my only hyprland and waybar configs. But looks neat.

So i just installed the cachyos version of Ryoku and it’s just eating all of my resources to the point that for example some apps just won’t open i was expecting it to be resource heavy but its eating 80% of my cpu when idle. I have an laptop with a ryzen 5 5600H and a 3060 also I haven’t been able to find my gpu resources in btop becuse instead of number 3 being gpu its instead network and i don’t see my gpu anywhere else.

is this distro good for gaming? i saw ryokus preview it seemed super cool to use and is THE most beautiful distro imo wanted to know if it supports gaming like other distros .

It's mentioned here that there is an extension for firefox but I couldn't find it. Can Someone link me to that?

i was looking at a video and he was going the the cstomization and settings.

the distro works really fine on my laptop but when I wanted to test it on my PC (3060 12 gig and I5 13400) it goes fine until the download finishes, when I put the USB out of my PC and just log in to the distro via limine, it just gets stuck on the splash screen, the one with the big japanese word on it (the logo before SDDM), whatever I do it just doesn't get into the sddm and just doesn't get passed the splash screen, idk what to do, HELP PLEASE 🥺🥺🥺🥺

after an update today stuck here

can't change wallpaper or app launcher

terminal browser shortcuts working only

login screen shows properly though

Hi everyone! I found ryoku and wanted to try it, but it wouldn't install from the ISO on my usb. I've tried with DD, ISO, Rufus and Ventoy but none have worked so far. I was trying to install the CachyOS version, and each time I got this same failure. I was wondering if any of you guys knew how to get around this. I understand that Ryoku is still very new so it's ok if there isn't a fix, but i still want to try it, so any help is appreciated!

SOLVED: I switched to installing cachyOS first and then converting to Ryoku. It took a couple reboots and refreshes but it now works