Product guide

This is a Linux desktop environment, shipped as an image-based operating system. It runs normal Linux apps and introduces a native app model built for shared work, local ownership and small software.

You can use it alone without seeing collaboration furniture everywhere. Invite someone, and the same desktop becomes a place where both of you can work: in a document, a terminal, the file manager or an ebook reader. The collaboration belongs to the desktop, not to a short list of specially blessed apps.

Start here

• Getting started — meet the desktop by using it
• Workspaces — where work, apps, people and rules live
• Apps and files — native apps without giving up Linux software
• Working together — share the work instead of narrating a screen
• People and agents — visible identity, scope and attribution
• Permissions — who may do what, and for how long
• History, undo and revert — change your mind without erasing the past
• Files, sync and ownership — work that does not belong to an app

The few words that matter

A workspace contains one body of work: its files, open apps, history, collaborators, permissions and host.

A strip is one horizontal row of non-overlapping windows. It is only a layout. Moving a window to another strip does not share or unshare anything.

A collaborator is a person or an agent allowed to work in a workspace. A member has continuing access. A participant is here now.

Apps expose concrete items—notes, books, messages, files—and the actions that apply to them. Ordinary interface copy names the item or its concrete type.