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HasH-Arch is Arch, finished.

HasH-Arch (NextLVLHasH) is a heavily-customised KDE Plasma 6 fork of Arch Linux with the BlackArch toolkit on tap. It's the desktop NextLVLHasH always wanted — fast, themed end-to-end, gamer- and hacker-ready — and engineered so you can verify the system instead of trusting it.

HasH-Arch desktop
The promise

Verifiable. Signed. Reproducible.

Every official package is GPG-signed upstream and pinned to a fixed Arch Linux Archive snapshot. The HasH-specific code and AUR rebuilds are built from audited source and served from a signed repo. Each ISO is GPG-signed with a published SHA-256. You can diff your install against a signed manifest. We don't claim "un-hackable" — we claim lower tamper risk, with evidence you can check yourself.

verified

Signed packages

Upstream-signed & ALA-pinned; foreign packages rebuilt from audited PKGBUILDs into a signed [hash] repo.

fingerprint

Signed ISO + manifest

Detached GPG signature, SHA-256, and a signed package manifest to verify a running install.

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Reproducible

Pinned + rebuilt with archlinux-repro so the binaries match the source, bit for bit.

What's inside

A whole desktop, re-thought.

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Live weather wallpaper

A GPU fragment-shader desktop with real weather — BBC/Met-Office for the UK — and a translucent Apple-grey clock. Sun, cloud, rain, snow, storms and fog.

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HasHTop theme

A bespoke global theme: Sweet-dark colours, Kvantum, BeautyLine icons — cohesive top to bottom.

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Silent Watch Dogs boot

No boot menu, no advanced options, no kernel spew — a single-entry Plymouth animation, then you're in.

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HasH Store & Settings

Custom app store and settings replace Discover and KDE System Settings, with iOS-style folders and our own launcher.

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HasH Security & 2FA

A security centre with enrollment, plus a no-button password→TOTP login/lock, 32-char cap and faillock lockout.

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HasH Disks & Accounts

Native disk management and a cloud-accounts wizard (rclone, incl. iCloud Drive) that pulls your latest files on open.

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All-vendor hardware

NVIDIA, AMD and Intel GPU drivers plus CPU microcode are in the base — it boots on your machine.

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BlackArch on tap

The Gamer+Hacker and HasH Hacker editions ship a curated, reproducible BlackArch toolkit.

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Game-ready

Steam, Lutris, Proton and a full emulation stack on the Gamer editions, multilib enabled.

See it in action

The tools, and why they exist.

Shots from a live v0.1 alpha dev build — account name, IPs, MACs and hostname are deliberately blurred. There's no public ISO yet: it's still buggy and not fully built. Follow the roadmap for what's shipping next.

HasH Settings — security & monitoring hub
Security & monitoring hub. Local Endpoint Protection & Detection, plus the per-app connections/ports monitor and deep-packet inspection — all in one page. Why: one home for system security, not ten scattered tools.
HasH Settings — appearance & live wallpapers
Appearance & live wallpapers. Theme, icons, and a fancy picker for the live weather scene, the code rain, or your own looping .webm. Why: a desktop that feels alive — your way.
HasH Settings — grouped system services
Grouped services. systemd as tidy functional groups (think a readable services.msc), and scriptable from the CLI. Why: KDE's settings are a maze; this maps the whole system simply.
HasH Security — sign-in options
HasH Security. Password, PIN, TOTP, fingerprint and IR-only face unlock, set per surface. Why: strong sign-in where your password is always a fallback — you can't be locked out.
HasH Store — software & update centre
HasH Store. Browse, install and update — with a centre that self-heals broken keyrings and failed updates. Why: an update shouldn't leave you stuck at a cryptic error.

Wired into the desktop.

A few more pieces being baked straight into the OS:

folder

iOS-style folders

Group desktop apps into folders that expand into a popup grid.

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Task manager

See and control what's running — processes, resources and ports at a glance.

notifications

Tray notification badge

A real unread-count badge in the system tray, with a rounded notification centre.

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.webm wallpapers

Drop in any looping video as an animated desktop background.

Built by a hacker, for hackers.

HasH-Arch is the work of NextLVLHasH — game modder, programmer and security researcher.

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