Nitrux 1.0.8

Pleasing Shashank Sharma is a matter of offering custom software and being a rolling release. Nitrux claims to have the first part sorted…

- Shashank Sharma

 The past few years have been especially generous for the Linux desktop. We’ve had numerous new distributions ship with their own home-grown desktops, each vying for the attention of the new users. Nitrux, based on Ubuntu, is no exception and features its own Nomad desktop.

With KDE Plasma as its base, Nitrux’s Nomad desktop has a lot in common with KDE and the distro uses several core KDE components such as the Dolphin file manager. All Linux desktops provide users the option to lock the screen, or suspend the system, apart from a couple of other powersaving options. With Nitrux, once the screen locks after a default period of inactivity, your only option is a hard reset: there’s no way to revive it.

Nitrux only ships with a minimal set of default programs, and you won’t find an email client, office suite or torrent application out of the box. In fact, with the exception of Chromium browser, Kate text editor, Babe Music Player and VLC Media Player, the distribution doesn’t provide any other everyday application. Not even a calculator!