You can't have the best of both worlds... well, yes, you actually can ;)

Modern gaming and graphics AND a full pentesting & forensics toolkit? You can't have the best of both worlds... well, yes, you actually can ;)

Laden OS is here. Write it to a USB stick, boot your machine, and you're in — no install required. Let's do it!

There's one edition: Red Team with full graphics, for people who game, create and test with permission. The live USB starts straight up. When you want to keep it, the Calamares installer is included. The current download is version 1.0.1.

• Boot it. Don't install — unless you want to. The live USB starts straight up, on BIOS and UEFI. Calamares is there when you want to keep it, with the correct partition type for BIOS installs. If you need it, there's a safe-graphics boot option.
• One edition. Full graphics. Red Team with NVIDIA open drivers for the GTX 16-series, RTX 20-series and newer, plus Mesa and Vulkan for AMD and Intel.
• Three superpowers on one stick. GameMode and Laden's game mode are included. Steam and other big apps are one click away. ffmpeg is ready, and more creator and streaming tools are in the signed package repo.
• Red Team and forensics, ready to go. nmap, Wireshark, hashcat, John, aircrack-ng, wifite, sqlmap, hydra, gobuster, RustScan, impacket and bettercap. For forensics: Sleuth Kit, Volatility, foremost and YARA. Only on systems you're allowed to test.
• A terminal that feels like Laden. Meta+Enter or Alt+Q opens LCP (Laden CockPit). Alt+T opens a plain WezTerm terminal.
• It looks like Laden, everywhere. Art v5 is the default, including the lock screen. The top panel and clock match the desktop.
• Always fresh. Never outdated. Based on Arch Linux, with its own signed [laden] package repo and its own kernel (linux-laden). KDE Plasma 6.8 on Wayland. Built in Norway by Laden AS. The ISO was checked — no private keys shipped.

Laden's own tools are open source under MIT. Forked parts and the kernel keep GPL. The name, logo and art are owned by Laden AS. The source is on GitHub.