Shadowfetch

Shadowfetch Linux 2.0.1 «Umbra»

Screenshots

The shipped desktop, captured from the release ISO. Nothing here is a mockup, a render or a composite, and no window has been rearranged for the photograph.

How these were taken

All six were captured from a live session of the 2.0.1 ISO at 1280×800, in a virtual machine. That is why the last shot reports a Virtio GPU rather than real hardware, and why the desktop still carries the installer icon. On a physical machine the desktop is identical; the hardware lines in the assistant and in fastfetch are not.

The desktop

  • A dark KDE Plasma 6 desktop. A large gold hexagonal Shadowfetch emblem sits centred on near-black wallpaper above the wordmark SHADOWFETCH LINUX, with faint concentric rings behind it. A floating panel along the bottom holds a file manager, Firefox, a terminal, Krita, GIMP and two other launchers, with a clock at the right. An Install Shadowfetch Linux icon sits in the top-left corner of the desktop.

    The Umbra desktop

    The default desktop as it appears in the live session, before anything is installed. This is stock KDE Plasma 6 with the Umbra theme and wallpaper - a dark grey Breeze shell, gold accents, a floating bottom panel. The icon in the top-left corner starts the Calamares installer, which is how you can tell this is the USB session and not an installed system.

  • A window titled Shadowfetch Linux - Welcome, open on the desktop. It shows the gold emblem, the heading Welcome to Shadowfetch Linux, the subheading Umbra in gold, three lines of body text describing a Debian and KDE Plasma 6 desktop with Btrfs snapshots on every update, and a gold Get started button in the bottom-right corner.

    First boot

    The Welcome app, which opens by itself the first time you log in. It states what the system is built on - Debian and KDE Plasma 6 - and points at the rollback story before anything else: on the default Btrfs install every update is snapshotted, so a bad change can be undone with the Btrfs Assistant. Get started leads to the setup profile, appearance and local AI steps. You can reopen it later from Control Center.

  • A window titled Shadowfetch Assistant with a sidebar reading Shadowfetch Assistant, Umbra 2.0.0, and the items Home, Chat and Recipes. The main pane has a section Your machine showing 8 GB RAM and a Red Hat Virtio 1.0 GPU, and a section Private on-device AI reading that it is not set up yet, that Ollama is installed on demand and runs fully local bound to 127.0.0.1 and firewalled from the LAN, and that the recommended model for this hardware is llama3.2:3b. Two buttons read Set up private AI and Open chat. The sidebar footer reads: Runs fully offline. No account. No telemetry.

    The assistant, before setup

    The assistant in its out-of-the-box state, which is the honest one to show: local AI is not installed until you ask for it. It reads the hardware first and then recommends a single model that will actually run on it - here 8 GB of RAM gets llama3.2:3b, not a suggestion to download something four times the size. When you do set it up, Ollama is fetched on demand and bound to 127.0.0.1 and firewalled from the rest of the network.

  • A window titled Shadowfetch Control Center. Under the heading is the line: Keep the system healthy, current, recoverable, and ready for agent work, and a green status reading System ready, no failed services, disk 2% used. Six tiles are laid out in two columns: Safe Update with a Check for updates button, System Health with Run health check, Agent Studio with Open Agent Studio, Agent Tools with Configure tools, First-run Setup with Open setup, and Graphics and Recovery with Open recovery menu. A footer line reads: Shadowfetch Linux 2.0.0, Local-first tools, No account required.

    Control Center

    One window for the six things that otherwise get lost in a settings tree: updates that snapshot before they run, a plain-language health check, Agent Studio and its tooling, the first-run setup you can reopen at any time, and the graphics and recovery menu. The status line at the top is the whole system summary - failed services and disk use - rather than a dashboard of gauges.

  • A Konsole terminal window running a text menu. The heading in gold reads Shadowfetch Agent Studio, followed by the line: Workspaces keep instructions, task state, artifacts and memory together. Five numbered options are listed: 1 Create workspace, 2 List workspaces, 3 Open workspace folder, 4 Run workspace agent, 5 Agent health and security check, and q to quit. A prompt at the bottom reads Choose: with a cursor.

    Agent Studio

    Worth being straight about: Agent Studio is a numbered text menu in Konsole, not a graphical application. It creates and runs workspaces - a folder that keeps an agent's instructions, task state, artifacts and memory in one place - and includes a health and security check for them. It is functional and scriptable rather than polished, and it is shown here as it actually is.

  • A Konsole terminal running fastfetch. An ASCII-art SF logo in gold sits on the left above the words SHADOWFETCH LINUX. The report to the right lists: OS Shadowfetch Linux 2.0.0 Umbra x86_64, Kernel Linux 7.1.3+deb14-amd64, Uptime 2 mins, Packages 3332 dpkg, Shell bash 5.3.9, Display 1280x800 at 75 Hz, DE KDE Plasma 6.6.5, WM KWin on Wayland, Breeze theme with Papirus-Dark icons and the Inter font, Terminal konsole 26.4.0, CPU AMD Ryzen 7 5700G, GPU RedHat Virtio 1.0, Memory 1.77 GiB of 7.76 GiB used, and a live medium of 4.18 GiB mounted read-only as iso9660. A row of colour swatches sits underneath.

    What it reports

    fastfetch on the shipped release, which is the quickest way to check the claims on the rest of this site against the running system: Plasma 6.6.5 on Wayland under KWin, a Debian testing kernel, 3332 packages installed. The last line is the live USB itself, mounted read-only - 4.18 GiB, the same size the download page quotes in binary units.

Using these

Reviewers and writers are welcome to use these images as they are. Please do not present them as a different release or edit them in a way that changes what the system appears to do. The Shadowfetch name and emblem stay trademarks - the terms are on the licensing page. If you need a shot of something that is not here, ask and it will be captured.

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