The Boykisser mascot

Boykisser Linux :3

A pink Debian spin I actually daily drive.

Privacy-friendly, gimmicky, does everything - XFCE or KDE, Boykisser all the way up.

Debian 13 (trixie) · amd64 · boots on UEFI and old BIOS boxes

It's Debian 13 with XFCE (or KDE Plasma, your pick in the installer), 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. Gaming, streaming, coding, homework - it's an allrounder, not a toy.

Prefer KDE Plasma? The installer lets you pick it - and it can pull in optional app bundles for gaming, streaming, development or office work while it's at it.

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

What it looks like

Boykisser Linux GRUB boot menu - pink themed
GRUB - pink from the very first screen
Boykisser Linux XFCE desktop - pink themed panel, Whisker menu and Boykisser wallpaper
XFCE - the default desktop, straight off the live ISO
Boykisser Linux KDE Plasma desktop - pink accent, Tela-circle icons and Boykisser wallpaper
KDE Plasma - pick it in the installer, same pink treatment
Boykisser Center - system hub for updates, themes and apps
Boykisser Center - one hub for updates, themes, apps

The wallpapers

All six ship with the ISO (boykisser wallpaper cycles them) - served straight from the repo, so they're always the current set.

What's already set up

The whole pink look

Themed XFCE and KDE with Tela-circle icons, a Boykisser start button, custom Plymouth splash and a matching GRUB menu. One toggle flips the desktop between light and dark.

Games run

Steam, Heroic, GameMode and MangoHud 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. NVIDIA card? One-click helper pulls the proprietary driver post-install.

Boykisser Center

One hub for everything: updates with Timeshift snapshots, app presets, browser chooser, de-bloat picker, NVIDIA drivers, newer kernels and a built-in bug reporter.

Private by default

No telemetry, no accounts, no phoning home - it's plain Debian underneath. Firewall on out of the box, automatic security updates, and Flatseal preinstalled so you decide what your apps can see.

Sensible defaults

Zram swap, night light, weekly SSD TRIM, printing and firmware updates - all preconfigured. Boot menu speaks seven languages.

Out of the box you also get:

...and these land on first boot via Flatpak:

Get it

Three flavours: Full (everything offline), Netinstall (slim, downloads heavy apps on first boot), Lite (ancient BIOS laptops - no grub-efi hybrid, nomodeset default). Every release has a direct mirror + torrent on the Internet Archive.

Flash with dd, boot, run the installer. Need help? Old hardware guide ->

One-person hobby distro. I leaned on AI a fair bit building it - the repo has a README.sh that says so. Not affiliated with Debian. Things will occasionally be janky. Questions or bug reports: Discord.