Meet Laden OS: one system to game, create, stream and pentest

Most people juggle a gaming distro, a creator setup and a separate pentesting distro. Laden OS brings that together in one package — with its own look, its own kernel, its own menu and its own tools. Shaped by daily real use on a Predator gaming laptop.

Steam, Proton, gamemode, MangoHud and gamescope are ready. Laden's game mode kicks in automatically when a game launches, with a gaming CPU scheduler, thermal guarding on Acer Predator laptops, a large shader cache and the desktop on the NVIDIA GPU. NVIDIA support (open driver plus CUDA verified), plus Intel and AMD graphics. An Xbox controller driver is available.

Kdenlive, ffmpeg and EasyEffects are included. Blender, GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, darktable, Audacity and DaVinci Resolve are one install away.

OBS Studio with low-overhead game capture, PipeWire audio routing and a virtual camera. Sunshine and Moonlight are available.

nmap, Wireshark, hashcat, John, aircrack-ng, wifite, sqlmap, hydra, gobuster, RustScan, impacket, bettercap and more — plus Metasploit. They sit in their own Red Team menu section with about 72 one-click launchers. Only on systems you're allowed to test.

Its own kernel, linux-laden, with an LTS safety net. The Laden menu with an L icon, a favourites grid, emerald category icons and a fullscreen dashboard on Meta+Shift+Space. Its own update, kernel manager and scheduler tools, plus its own signed package repo. KDE Plasma 6.8 on Wayland, LadenDark, fish and WezTerm. A graphical installer, and the live ISO boots on BIOS and UEFI.

Meta+Enter or Alt+Q opens LCP (Laden CockPit). Alt+T opens a plain WezTerm terminal.

Laden OS is a single edition: Red Team with full graphics. The live USB has it all, and the installer (Calamares) is there when you want to keep it. Gaming, creating, streaming and Red Team tools are included, plus NVIDIA open drivers for the GTX 16-series, RTX 20-series and newer, and Mesa and Vulkan for AMD and Intel.

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.

Already running Laden OS? Updates come from our signed package repo: Server = https://laden.no/repo/$arch