Staklan is an effort to create a general purpose GNU/Linux distribution based on Arch Linux, with its own desktop environment, meant to resemble the look of Microsoft® Windows™ 10, while maintaining compatibility with programs designed for Windows™, but also keeping the stability, security and performance of Linux-based systems. Staklan is free to use forever and does not require product activation. Staklan is not associated with Microsoft®.

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Many will make you think that your computer is "not supported anymore", or is "too old", which is not true in most cases. Microsoft imposes artificial system requirements for Windows 11, leading to perfectly good computers being thrown out or replaced, or people practicing bypasses for these requirements. Most GNU/Linux distributions which are known to be lightweight are not lightweight at all, and can be just as slow as your previous operating system. Staklan comes with a basic set of applications and utilities, while still maintaining a small installer size. It comes with the Pale Moon browser, which is a continuation of ancient Firefox, the simple PCManFM file manager, a graphical package manager, a text editor, and ClassiCube, a Minecraft Classic clone written from scratch in C, with multiplayer support and hundreds of servers to choose from, perfect for testing the graphical capabilities and the quality of the internet connection of your computer.

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Staklan is broken and unfinished; in its current state it is not yet ready for production use and is meant for testing. You will likely encounter many issues and bugs, which you will need some basic Linux knowledge for to resolve.

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Staklan is extremely lightweight in comparison to other popular GNU/Linux distributions and will run on basically any computer with a 64-bit x86 processor.
Processor: 64-bit x86, Intel/AMD/etc
RAM Memory: 256MB required, 1GB recommended
Disk Space: 2.5GB required
Display: any GPU supported by the Linux kernel, 1024x768 resolution recommended

No TPM chips, internet connections or accounts are required.

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How to install Staklan?

Go back to the Downloads page, and download the most recent ISO file. Then, write the image to a USB pendrive or SD card using appropriate software. On Windows, you can use Rufus or Win32DiskImager. On Linux, using the built in tools is always a good option.
After creating your installation media, boot your computer from it. Staklan supports both UEFI and Legacy BIOS systems, and offers a live system with an installer which has a clickable shortcut both on the desktop and the start menu. This means that you can try out the system without ever installing it; this is good if you want to test whether your hardware works properly, or just want to take a peek of the operating system in general. If you happen to have a 64-bit computer which doesn't support booting from USB devices, you might want to use PLOP Boot Manager, a project which can be written to a CD and will allow you to boot from USB pendrives, bypassing the capabilities of your BIOS.

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