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Systemd-Free Nitrux 5.0 Officially Released with Hyprland Desktop, Linux 6.17

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Marcus Nestor
Nov 26, 2025

Nitrux 5.0 is the first release to drop the KDE Plasma desktop environment and ship with Hyprland by default, a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor, using greetd as a minimal Wayland login manager, Waybar as a highly customizable Wayland bar, and Crystal Dock as a dock or application launcher.

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Marcus Nestor

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