y5-snowies/nourish

Source: https://github.com/y5-snowies/nourish

Nourish

Simple, next generation operating system

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/03d78832-c451-451f-a701-713710a20051

nourish.snowies.com · Guide · Discord

Nourish is a Linux desktop that doesn’t limit you to your screen size.

It’s free and open source, and stable enough to be a daily driver. It collects no data whatsoever — no telemetry, no analytics, not even crash reports. Nothing ever leaves your machine.

It’s performant, and renders using Vulkan. Optionally, you can set an automatic fallback or explicitly select GLES on systems where Vulkan is not supported.

It fully supports NVIDIA and cards that use Mesa drivers such as Intel and AMD.

Features

• A viewport you can zoom and pan, giving you an effectively infinite amount of space to work on.
• Built on the Wayland protocol with fractional-scale support, so compliant windows stay sharp at any zoom level instead of turning blurry.
• Non-intrusive multitasking aids that make it easy to work ergonomically across many contexts at once.
• Carefully designed for stability, with attention to avoiding faults and performance issues. Visit nourish.snowies.com to see what it looks like and the full list of features.

Install

On Fedora 44, it’s one command. You get a prebuilt build, so there’s no toolchain to set up:

curl -fsSL https://nourish.snowies.com/release/latest/fedora44/package.tar.gz | tar -xz && y5-install/install.sh

The installer is interactive and safe to re-run. For the full walkthrough see https://nourish.snowies.com/guide.html.

Prefer a pinned build? Every release is also published immutably under its version — https://nourish.snowies.com/release/v1.0.0/fedora44/package.tar.gz — while latest always points at the newest. Browse them on the releases page.

For any other distribution, please see https://nourish.snowies.com/guide.html I currently do not publish individual binaries for different distributions and generally recommend using Fedora. If you are using a different distribution, it is easy to build from source which will link against your distribution system libraries versions automatically.

Source

Under the hood the engine is called y5 — a Wayland compositor written in Rust, standing on patched forks of smithay (Wayland), bevy + wgpu (rendering), and iced (interface), all kept in-tree under vendor/.

A thorough guide is available here.

Note: y5 was architected and hand-written, and only later enhanced with AI. It contains a lot of generated code, all of which was pre-directed and reviewed carefully.

# Build & run nested in your current Wayland session
environment/run-host.sh winit release
 
# Build the binary for use
environment/build-release.sh system

If you get errors about missing libraries, these are system libraries that the project links against. On Fedora you can install them with environment/install-deps.sh. On another distribution, feed that script to your AI agent and ask which equivalent packages it needs.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! If you hit a bug or have an idea, please open an issue — bug reports and feature requests are genuinely appreciated. Pull requests are welcome too.

License

Licensed under either of Apache License 2.0 or MIT license at your option.