The Live Session

Booting the ISO gives you the complete AcreetionOS experience running from the USB/RAM — nothing touches your disks until you say so.

Try everything

Desktop feel, Cinnamon settings, themes
Wi-Fi connect (applet or nmtui) — confirms your chip works
Audio playback — PipeWire live too
Partition layout review: lsblk -f, GParted available
Browser runs for consulting these very docs

Rule of thumb: if something works here on YOUR hardware, it’ll work installed. If it doesn’t work here, check the wiki page for that subsystem before committing an install.

Starting the installer

Desktop icon or menu → Install AcreetionOS. Calamares opens; continue with the walkthrough.

Live-session quirks

Observation	Explanation
Slower than expected	Everything reads off USB; SSD-speed arrives after install
Changes vanish on reboot	By design — overlay live system
No Timeshift snapshots listed	Snapshots belong to installed systems
Password prompts ask for 'live' user sudo	Passwordless-ish defaults for testing convenience

Observation

Explanation

Slower than expected

Everything reads off USB; SSD-speed arrives after install

Changes vanish on reboot

By design — overlay live system

No Timeshift snapshots listed

Snapshots belong to installed systems

Password prompts ask for 'live' user sudo

Passwordless-ish defaults for testing convenience

Recovery mode bonus

The same media doubles as your rescue kit — GRUB repair, chroot shell and Timeshift restore are reachable from the recovery entries described in The AcreetionOS Recovery Environment.