Use the screen well
No extra padding or rounded corners. More room for your work.
One way to do things
One distro, UI, package manager, init system, and binary format. No need to make constant choices. And it all just works.
Change what you need
Customize the system to work the way you want.
Themes you can choose
Pick from many themes. You can make it look like macOS Catalina or even Windows XP.
Uses few resources
Uses about 100 MB of RAM at startup and 1 GB of disk space.
Stays small
Vinix stays small and minimal. It will not get more bloated with each release.
Officially supported hardware
Vinix initially is going to support every Apple Silicon Mac (only M1 Macs for now as of Sep 10 2026).
Support for Intel Macs, back to the 2010 Mac mini, is next. So you can give an older Mac a fast, modern, fully supported OS.
The entire stack is built and tested together. No hunting for drivers or workarounds for sleep, wake, lid closing, hibernation, Wi-Fi, graphics, audio, or the other hardware basics that too often turn a Linux install into a project.
You can also already install Vinix on an amd64 machine, but the driver support won't be great. Better to run it in a VM.