Atomic Hardware

Hardware and Installation

Pre-Release installation

There is currently no GUI installer for elementary OS 9 Atomic, to install, get an ISO (the same as classic), switch to a TTY or terminal, then type in run0 elementary-install.

Installation

Requires a full disk to be wiped, same disk dual boot is not supported

• UEFI only
• 4gb ram minimum
• ~45gb disk mimimum
• SSD (recommended)
• TPM2 (optional)
• SecureBoot (optional)

Flashing

For flashing, an USB3.0+ is highly recommended, USB2 will work, but will take a long time. The USB drive must be at least 8GB, and flashed with a standard flashing app (no Ventoy or similar). Impression is well tested with elementary OS atomic. Others, like BalenaEtcher, FedoraWriter and many more should also work.

Out-of-tree drivers support via features

• Nvidia-Open (Only for modern-ish GPUs, see compatible GPUs list)
• Broadcom wifi

Theses drivers can be installed as "optional features/extensions". Check this section on how to enable optional features.

Adding boot arguments

This is incomplete and untested, help wanted Check this for now (only for installs without secureboot enabled): https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/-/snippets/7081

Security

Auto-unlock ssh keyring on login

Make sure you understand the security implication first

1. Install secret-tools (ex: from brew.sh) brew install libsecret

2. Enable auto-unlock for key secret-tool store --label="Unlock password for: id_edxxxx" unique "ssh-store:$HOME/.ssh/id_edxxxx"

TPM2

WIP