Zirconium

Do you like how I dance? I've got Zirconium pants!

What is Zirconium?

Zirconium is an opinionated fedora-bootc image that makes use of Niri and DankMaterialShell to create a usable out of the box TWM experience.

Zirconium is built primarily for container-focused development and day-to-day usage, however gaming is still more than possible. For a fully gaming-focused experience, use Bazzite.

How do I use this?

The best way to install Zirconium is to download our ISOs! Pick your flavor:

• AMD64
  • AMD/Intel GPUs (Checksum)
  • NVIDIA GPUs (GTX 16xx and RTX series) (Checksum)
• ARM64
  • AMD/Intel GPUs (Checksum)
  • NVIDIA GPUs (GTX 16xx and RTX series) (Checksum)

Alternatively, you can install Zirconium by doing a rebase from an existing Fedora Atomic install. We recommend Bluefin, but it doesn't really matter.

Once you have some flavour of Fedora Atomic installed, run this command:

sudo bootc switch ghcr.io/zirconium-dev/zirconium:latest

If you also have NVIDIA GPU (GTX 16xx or RTX series), run this command instead:

sudo bootc switch ghcr.io/zirconium-dev/zirconium-nvidia:latest

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Notice about Nvidia GPUs

Currently the Nvidia kernel module is not being signed so there is no way of using secure boot on the -nvidia images. (related issue)

Can I still customize Niri/DankMaterialShell?

Yes! Put your Niri customizations in ~/.config/niri/local.kdl (for your user) or /etc/niri/local.kdl (for system-wide customizations).

We update our dotfiles in OS updates, which will overwrite the default ~/.config/niri/config.kdl file. If you edit it, it might get overwritten in a future update.

Zirconium is a stupid name. Why did you pick Zirconium?

A weird wax baby made me.