It's Debian 13 with XFCE, themed pink from the boot menu all the way to the login screen. Flatpak and Flathub are already set up before you ever log in, Steam and OBS work, and there's a normal one-button installer when you're ready to keep it.

I made it because I wanted a daily driver that looked like - me - and didn't get in my way. It's a hobby project by one person, so there's the odd rough edge - but it's plain Debian under the paint, nothing cursed.

What's already set up

The whole pink look

Themed XFCE with Tela-circle icons, a Boykisser start button, custom Plymouth splash and a matching GRUB menu. There's a single toggle that flips the desktop between light and dark.

Games run

Steam, Heroic, GameMode and MangoHud are in the image, with 32-bit libraries turned on so your library actually launches instead of sulking.

Made for recording

OBS Studio ships with a working virtual camera (v4l2loopback), so streaming, recording, and looking decent on calls all work without the usual fight.

Hardware, broadly

Wide firmware coverage and Nouveau by default so it boots more or less anywhere. Got an NVIDIA card? There's a one-click helper to pull the proprietary driver once you've installed.

Out of the box you also get:

Firefox
VS Code Insiders
VLC
GNOME Software
GParted
Thunar

…and these land on first boot via Flatpak:

Discord
Flatseal
Gear Lever

Getting it onto a stick

Every release links a direct mirror and a torrent on the Internet Archive - one whole ISO, no zip parts to glue back together.

Open the latest release and grab boykisser-linux-amd64.iso from the mirror or torrent.
Check it matches (the release ships SHA256SUMS):
```
sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS
```

Write it to a USB stick - double-check the drive letter, this wipes it:

sudo dd if=boykisser-linux-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress oflag=sync

Boot it, poke around the live desktop, then run Install Boykisser Linux when you're happy.

Before you flame me

This is a one-person hobby distro, and I leaned on AI a fair bit while building it - the repo even has a README.sh that says so out loud. It's not affiliated with Debian, and things will occasionally be janky. If something breaks or you just want to say hi, the Discord is the place.