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Spiral?

Spiral linux is to Debian what EndeavorOS is to Arch. This means it provides a basic preconfigured setup to get you started while also offering some nice bonuses such as BTRFS subvolume layout that allows for automatic Snapper snapshots, optimal font rendering, preinstalled tlp power configuration, and others. I believe this is the way to go for a

Installation

• Download the ISO You can find the iso at the official Spiral Linux website (I personally use Gnome)

  Warning

  The bright orange builders button looks attractive, but you should just go to Arch with Hyprland if you want to work with a window manager

• Flash it! With the downloaded ISO follow our flashing guide
• Boot it up
  • Make sure to have the USB drive plugged in
  • Reboot (or boot up) your system and spam the F12, F10, F2, Delete and any key that could possibly be your bios configuration (or boot menu)
  • Set your usb drive as the first in the boot menu and disable secure boot (if you don't know how then play around a bit until you find!)
  • Exit bios and save the changes
  • Select the first on the Spiral boot screen
• Run installer
  • The installer is at the top left in the desktop
  • Follow the instructions provided

    DUAL BOOTERS

    You may find an option to select the place for the bootloader location (bottom of Partitions section). MAKE SURE that the you select the same drive as your windows partition. Otherwise you may find a very ugly grub recovery screen (if you find it anyways reinstall and make sure to select the Master Boot Record at the Windows drive)

• Install updates - First thing you should do is run the following commands to make sure your system is up to date.

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt upgrade

  • Reboot the system for the updates to apply

Snapshots

TODO

Make it pretty

This will vary based on your desktop environment. You can check out specific guides here

Changelog

8/9/25, 7:12 PM

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• e218b-Created archived folder, archived qemu-kvm guide, written dev-setup-guideon 8/9/25
• 87452-whoops forgot that permalinkon 8/1/25
• aa336-moved spiral to its appropiate spoton 8/1/25
• 73da9-powerful reformattingon 7/16/25
• 6d0cc-Fixedon 7/16/25
• 25f07-final changeson 7/16/25
• 6fac3-formattingon 7/16/25
• b9abb-added ssh tutorialon 7/15/25
• 0c786-bolded heading 2on 7/13/25
• 98b63-added installationon 7/12/25
• 6f292-Enhance markdown formatting for consistency across documentationon 7/12/25
• 4fa70-Formatting conventionson 6/26/25
• 72961-Minor formatting conventionson 6/26/25
• 95912-Flashing guide created and link from debian/ubuntu updatedon 6/26/25
• 06b25-added other stuffson 6/26/25
• cd65a-added installation sectionon 6/26/25
• 4bd5d-added sipral linux sectionon 6/26/25
• d6f6b-Using relative links.on 6/26/25
• 4b3ae-Fixed broken linkon 6/25/25
• d4a77-Remove co-author card placeholders from Arch, Debian/Ubuntu, and Fedora guideson 6/24/25
• e2f6b-Refactor guide authorship sections: update titles from "Maintainer" to "Author(s)" and "Contributors" to "Co-author(s)" across multiple guideson 6/13/25
• 64ce3-Formattingon 6/10/25
• 9d94b-maintainers tag added and guideline page addedon 6/10/25
• c7cad-Become a contributor.on 6/9/25
• 7e493-Noteon 6/7/25
• 1ccea-Consistent Debian/Ubuntu namingon 6/4/25
• c0bba-Debian/Ubuntuon 6/4/25
• 362e5-Moved to linux-guideson 5/30/25
• 20414-Draftson 5/29/25
• fb788-under-construction addedon 5/29/25