Installing Shadowfetch Linux

It's the standard Debian live-install experience — boot the ISO, click through Calamares, reboot. About 15 minutes start to finish.

1. Boot from the USB stick

   Plug in the USB, power on, hit your system's boot-menu key (usually F12, F11, F2, or Del), select the USB device. You'll land in a live session — you can try Shadowfetch before installing.

2. Launch the installer

   From the desktop, double-click "Install Shadowfetch Linux" (or run calamares from a terminal). Calamares walks you through region, keyboard, partitioning, user account, and a final summary.

3. Partition

   For most users, pick "Erase disk" with default options. If you're dual-booting, use "Manual partitioning" and shrink an existing partition. Shadowfetch defaults to ext4; pick btrfs if you want snapshots.

4. Wait ~10 minutes

   The installer copies the live system to disk, installs the bootloader (GRUB), and configures your user. Make a coffee.

5. Reboot into your installed system

   Remove the USB when prompted, boot back up. On first login the Shadowfetch Welcome wizard runs — pick your accent color, optionally install Flatpak extras (Bitwig demo, REAPER, Signal, Spotify), and you're done.

First-boot notes

• NVIDIA: If your system has an NVIDIA GPU, the proprietary driver is already installed. If not, a first-boot service detects this and removes the NVIDIA stack to reclaim ~2 GB.
• Multi-GPU laptops: PRIME is set to on-demand mode automatically. Run apps with __NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=1 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia <app> to use the discrete GPU.
• Updates: Run sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade, or use Discover (KDE's app/update store). Shadowfetch updates flow from https://shadowfetch.com/linux/apt/; Debian updates flow from the usual mirrors.
• Flathub: Pre-configured. Open Discover, search, install — works.

Add the Shadowfetch APT repo to an existing Debian system

If you already run Debian and just want the Shadowfetch metapackages without reinstalling, you can pull them via apt:

curl -fsSL https://shadowfetch.com/linux/apt/shadowfetch.gpg.asc \
  | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/shadowfetch.gpg

echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/shadowfetch.gpg] https://shadowfetch.com/linux/apt/ umbra main" \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/shadowfetch.list

sudo apt update
sudo apt install shadowfetch-desktop      # full creative workstation
# or pick à la carte:
sudo apt install shadowfetch-themes shadowfetch-defaults
sudo apt install shadowfetch-creative-base