AcreetionOwn your machine.
All of it.
AcreetionOS is the Arch Linux–based operating system built on one principle: System Sovereignty. Zero telemetry. Zero lock-in. Zero accounts you didn't choose. Every component inspectable, every byte yours.
free as in freedom · free as in beer · no account required to download
in the default install
inspect every line
required to run it
your machine, your rules
The problem
Modern operating systems treat you as a tenant.
The big three don't sell you a computer — they lease you one. The hardware is yours; the operating system is theirs. In exchange for "free" updates you pay with your data, your attention, and your ability to leave. That's not a market. That's a toll booth.
The lease model
- Telemetry you can't fully switch off
- An app store that takes a 30% cut of every sale
- Forced account sign-in to use your own device
- Advertising and AI training on your activity
- Planned obsolescence — "your device is no longer supported"
- An exit door that's technically open but practically bricked
The AcreetionOS model
- Nothing phones home — check it yourself, the source is right there
- An open app store with no commission on anything
- No account. Install it, own it, never hear from us again
- Your activity is yours — it never leaves your machine
- Runs great on a decade-old laptop. No expiration date
- Arch-compatible FOSS — walk out any time, take everything with you
The answer
An OS that treats you like an owner.
AcreetionOS applies voluntaryism to the desktop: nothing is forced on you, everything is available to you. Here's what that means in practice.
Zero telemetry. Ever.
The default install contains no phone-home endpoints. No usage analytics, no crash reporting to a corporate mothership, no "improve your experience" data harvesting. If you want to audit it, the source is open and the network is quiet — ss -tunap will prove it.
Full source. Full license.
Built on Arch Linux, licensed open source. Every package, every script, every line of the build tooling is inspectable and redistributable. You're not trusting us — you're verifying us. That's the difference between a promise and a receipt.
No gatekeepers. No 30% tax.
The AcreetionOS app store is open — developers publish freely, users install freely, and nobody takes a cut. Package management is pacman + the AUR: the largest open package ecosystem on Earth, no permission required.
Your hardware is yours.
No planned obsolescence. AcreetionOS is famously light — it runs comfortably on machines the big vendors declared e-waste, including decade-old servers and laptops. Your property is worth what you say it's worth.
Self-host everything.
Why rent your cloud from someone who reads it? The AcreetionOS ecosystem is built around self-hosting: your files, your mail, your services, on your hardware, behind your door. The OS doesn't assume a mothership exists.
Choose your desktop. Voluntarily.
Cinnamon. GNOME. MATE. i3. Hyprland. An immutable edition. The desktop environment is a choice, not a mandate — and switching is a package install, not a life decision. Even the default is a preference, not a prison.
Exit rights.
The ultimate libertarian test: can you leave? AcreetionOS is Arch-compatible FOSS. If the project vanished tomorrow, your system keeps working, your packages keep installing, and you keep everything. No subscription to cancel, no vault to crack open.
Governance without a boss.
No corporate board, no VC term sheet, no shareholder pressure to monetize you. The project is maintained by independent developers who answer to the community — because the moment they didn't, you'd fork it and leave. That's the real check on power.
The contract
The AcreetionOS Bill of Rights
We don't ask you to sign anything. We publish ours, and you verify it.
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The right to own your machine.
No remote kill switches, no activation servers, no "this device is no longer supported" by decree.
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The right to know what your OS does.
Every byte of the operating system is open source. Secrecy is a bug, not a feature.
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The right to choose.
Desktop environment, display server, kernel flavor, package set — you decide. Defaults are suggestions.
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The right to privacy by default.
Privacy isn't a settings menu you have to dig through — it's the starting state. Nothing leaves your machine unless you send it.
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The right to repair and upgrade.
Light enough for old hardware, open enough for new hardware. Your device has no expiration date.
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The right to self-host.
Your data belongs on your disk, not in someone's data center. The OS is built for the fully sovereign setup.
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The right to fork.
Disagree with a decision? Take the code and go. The license guarantees your exit, which is what makes the project accountable.
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The right to be left alone.
No forced accounts. No telemetry. No ads in the OS. We'll never know you installed it, and we're fine with that.
"System Sovereignty isn't a slogan — it's the entire design brief.— the AcreetionOS project, on its founding principle
Your computer works for you, not for anyone else."
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