Pick your edition.
Every edition shares one signed base — lean KDE Plasma, all-vendor GPU drivers (NVIDIA · AMD · Intel), CPU microcode, the silent Watch Dogs boot, the HasH store & settings, and the Calamares installer. They differ only by what's layered on top.
Minimalist
base only · smallest ISO
- Lean KDE Plasma 6 desktop
- Firefox & the essentials
- HasH store, settings & theme
- No gaming or security tooling
Gamer
base + gaming overlay
- Steam, Lutris & Heroic
- Proton, Wine-staging, GameMode, MangoHud
- Emulators: RetroArch, Dolphin, PCSX2, PPSSPP, RPCS3…
- Multilib enabled
Gamer + Hacker
base + gaming + BlackArch
- Everything in Gamer
- Curated, reproducible BlackArch toolkit
- For people who frag and pentest
HasH Hacker
base + BlackArch + dev
- Curated BlackArch toolkit
- LM Studio (local AI) + VS Code
- A focused offensive-security & dev box
Note: LM Studio is a proprietary binary — it can't be reproduced or audited, so it's excluded from the “verified out of the box” set. Install it only if you accept that.
Verify it's really us.
Don't take our word for it — that's the whole point. Check the checksum and the GPG signature against the published HasH key fingerprint before writing the ISO.
# 1) checksum
sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS
# 2) signature (import the HasH key first)
gpg --recv-keys <HASH_KEY_FINGERPRINT>
gpg --verify hash-arch-*.iso.sig hash-arch-*.iso
# 3) verify a running install matches the signed manifest
pacman -Q | diff - <(cut -d' ' -f1,2 PACKAGE-MANIFEST.txt)What you'll need.
GPU
NVIDIA, AMD or Intel — drivers for all three ship in the base.
CPU & RAM
64-bit x86_64, UEFI or BIOS. 4 GB RAM minimum (8 GB+ for Gamer editions).
Disk
~25 GB for Minimalist; 60 GB+ recommended for Gamer / Hacker editions.
Boot the ISO, and the Calamares installer walks you through the rest — single-entry silent boot included.