No video of the event yet, sorry!

A few weeks ago, my friend Victoria showed me the new Wayland compositor she built, COSMIC-comp. I was so intrigued by it, that is kick-started my journey with tiling window managers on Wayland.

Having been a happy Aeon and MicroOS user, I didn't just want to "ruin" my pristine Aeon install by installing a bunch of window manager utilities like Rofi, Waybar, all kinds of compositors and various other programs. Naturally, the idea of developing my own MicroOS based desktop Linux distribution came up and I started learning.

This talk is directed at people, wanting to learn how Linux distributions are assembled and how to create their own MicroOS based desktop Linux. The participants will learn what patterns are, how to write a pattern themselves and how to build them via OBS. Furthermore, they will learn how they can create bootable Linux distributions via mkosi and what packages go into a working Linux image. As an extra, I plan on showing how to build images even easier, utilising systemd-vmspawn for testing. This allows the participants to transfer their gained knowledge into their daily life building virtual machines, nspawn containers and more. My end-goal is to inspire others to create variants for e.g. Budgie, Sway, XFCE or Enlightenment on top of MicroOS.