Privacy, power, and precision — from the depths.
Shadowfetch Linux is a creative workstation built honestly on Debian — KDE Plasma 6, themed end to end in shadow and gold. Private by default, agent-ready, with local AI built in — and every creative tool you'd otherwise spend a weekend installing already there, working, and themed.
What you get out of the box
Private by default
UFW firewall on, MAC-address randomization, hardened sysctl. Your machine, your data.
Agent-ready, on-device
Run Hermes or OpenClaw — a real autonomous AI agent — in one command. Plus Ollama + Open-WebUI for private local chat. Nothing leaves your machine.
Themed end to end
GRUB, boot splash, login, and desktop unified in the Umbra gold-on-graphite look.
Install in minutes
Graphical Calamares installer plus a first-boot welcome wizard for accent, apps, and AI setup.
2D · Photo
GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, Scribus, darktable, RawTherapee, digiKam
Audio · Video
Ardour, Audacity, Hydrogen, Kdenlive, Shotcut, OBS Studio, full LV2 plugin set
3D · Color
Blender, FreeCAD, OpenSCAD, ArgyllCMS, DisplayCAL, colord
System
PipeWire, zram, Flatpak (Flathub pre-configured), NVIDIA auto-handled, ext4 or btrfs snapshots
Agent-ready out of the box
Shadowfetch is built to run an autonomous AI agent on your own hardware — your choice of agent, set up in a single command.
Hermes
Nous Research's self-improving agent — writes its own skills as you work, with a Telegram/Discord/Slack gateway. shadowfetch-hermes
OpenClaw
A lightweight personal agent with friendly onboarding that drives your local models. shadowfetch-openclaw
100% local
Pick a Hugging Face model matched to your machine with shadowfetch-llm and run everything through Ollama — no cloud, no keys.
Already wired
Node, Python 3.13, git, ripgrep and ffmpeg are pre-installed, so agents install fast. Read the agent guide →
Built honestly on Debian
Shadowfetch is a Debian-testing derivative. Security updates and 99% of the package archive come straight from upstream Debian. We layer on top — a curated stack, the Umbra theme, a graphical installer, a first-boot wizard, private-by-default networking, and a one-command local-AI stack — and that's it. We don't fork anything we don't have to.
If you've used Debian, you already know how to use Shadowfetch. apt works. dpkg works. Everything you can install on Debian, you can install here.
System requirements
- 64-bit x86 CPU (Intel or AMD)
- 4 GB RAM minimum, 8 GB+ recommended
- 40 GB disk minimum, 100 GB+ recommended
- UEFI or legacy BIOS boot
- NVIDIA, AMD, or Intel GPU (NVIDIA gets the proprietary stack out of the box)