Nourish is a Linux desktop that doesn't limit you to your screen size.
It's free and open source, and stable enough to be a daily driver. It collects no data whatsoever — no telemetry, no analytics, not even crash reports. Nothing ever leaves your machine.
It's performant, and renders using Vulkan. Optionally, you can set an automatic fallback or explicitly select GLES on systems where Vulkan is not supported.
It fully supports NVIDIA and cards that use Mesa drivers such as Intel and AMD.
- A viewport you can zoom and pan, giving you an effectively infinite amount of space to work on.
- Built on the Wayland protocol with fractional-scale support, so compliant windows stay sharp at any zoom level instead of turning blurry.
- Non-intrusive multitasking aids that make it easy to work ergonomically across many contexts at once.
- Carefully designed for stability, with attention to avoiding faults and performance issues. Visit nourish.snowies.com to see what it looks like and the full list of features.
On Fedora 44, it's one command. You get a prebuilt build, so there's no toolchain to set up:
curl -fsSL https://nourish.snowies.com/release/latest/fedora44/package.tar.gz | tar -xz && y5-install/install.shThe installer is interactive and safe to re-run. For the full walkthrough see
https://nourish.snowies.com/guide.html.
Prefer a pinned build? Every release is also published immutably under its version —
https://nourish.snowies.com/release/v1.0.0/fedora44/package.tar.gz — while latest
always points at the newest. Browse them on the
releases page.
For any other distribution, please see https://nourish.snowies.com/guide.html I currently do not publish individual binaries for different distributions and generally recommend using Fedora.
If you are using a different distribution, it is easy to build from source which will link against your distribution system libraries versions automatically.
Under the hood the engine is called y5 — a Wayland compositor written in
Rust, standing on patched forks of
smithay (Wayland),
bevy + wgpu (rendering), and
iced (interface), all kept in-tree under vendor/.
A thorough guide is available here.
Note: y5 was architected and hand-written, and only later enhanced with AI. It contains a lot of generated code, all of which was pre-directed and reviewed carefully.
# Build & run nested in your current Wayland session
environment/run-host.sh winit release
# Build the binary for use
environment/build-release.sh systemIf you get errors about missing libraries, these are system libraries that the
project links against. On Fedora you can install them with
environment/install-deps.sh. On another distribution, feed that script to your
AI agent and ask which equivalent packages it needs.
Contributions are welcome! If you hit a bug or have an idea, please open an issue — bug reports and feature requests are genuinely appreciated. Pull requests are welcome too.
Licensed under either of Apache License 2.0 or MIT license at your option.