MeccanicOS: a complete workstation on a stick, use it live or install it. Built on NixOS: fast, uncluttered, secure, keyboard driven, encrypted, with sane custom tools.
MeccanicOS is a bootable USB system that runs on Ventoy or directly on macOS, offering a unified Linux environment without a start menu.
MeccanicOS runs from a 16 GB or larger USB drive with Ventoy or directly on macOS.
It uses NixOS as a base and provides a command bar for apps, commands, and more.
No internet is needed for installation, but additional apps and AI models are downloaded later.
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One small program does it all: it downloads the latest MeccanicOS, checks it, and makes a USB drive (16 GB or larger) bootable with Ventoy, with MeccanicOS on it. (On macOS, where Ventoy does not run, it writes MeccanicOS directly to the drive.)
Double-click it and allow it to make changes. If Windows warns about an unknown publisher: More info → Run anyway.
Prefer to do it by hand? Download the ISO and follow Write it to a USB stick. Every MeccanicOS USB drive has a MeccanicOS-README.pdf on it: how to start the computer from the drive, and the BIOS settings if it does not.
Built on NixOS, but designed as one coherent system instead of a collection of unrelated Linux tools.
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