--- title: This New Distro Wants to Achieve What Ubuntu Failed to... description: Luma is a new convergence-focused operating system aiming to run across desktop, tablet, and phone with a unified app experience, echoing Ubuntu's abandoned... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/this-new-distro-wants-to-achieve-what-ubuntu-failed-to-do-nearly-a-decade-ago-ts8gyf1e3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: This New Distro Wants to Achieve What Ubuntu Failed to Do Nearly a Decade Ago | daily.dev og:description: Luma is a new convergence-focused operating system aiming to run across desktop, tablet, and phone with a unified app experience, echoing Ubuntu's abandoned... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-new-distro-wants-to-achieve-what-ubuntu-failed-to-do-nearly-a-decade-ago-ts8gyf1e3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tS8Gyf1E3.png og:image:alt: This New Distro Wants to Achieve What Ubuntu Failed to Do Nearly a Decade Ago og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # This New Distro Wants to Achieve What Ubuntu Failed to Do Nearly a Decade Ago **[It's Foss](https://daily.dev/sources/itsfoss)** · 4 min read · 41 upvotes · 8 comments ## Summary Luma is a new convergence-focused operating system aiming to run across desktop, tablet, and phone with a unified app experience, echoing Ubuntu's abandoned Unity 8/Ubuntu Phone ambitions from 2017. Built on Fedora 44, it ships Prairie, a GNOME hard fork, alongside a suite of native apps (Depot app store, Viola browser, Charlie email, Tide music, and more), a Creative Collection of productivity/creative apps, and Ari, a local-model AI assistant. It supports DNF5, Flatpak, Snap, and via the Valet tool, AppImage, DEB, EXE, and APK files, plus optional Android app support through Waydroid. The team targets the Fairphone 6 and Google Pixel 9 for phone support and is currently distributing a single x86_64 nightly ISO in beta, with ARM64 builds and several creative apps still pending. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is Luma and how is it different from a typical Linux distro? Luma is a new convergence-focused operating system built on Fedora 44 that aims to run across desktop, tablet, and phone with a unified app experience. It ships Prairie, a hard fork of GNOME, native apps like Depot, Viola, and Charlie, a local-model AI assistant called Ari, and supports DNF5, Flatpak, Snap, plus AppImage, DEB, EXE, and APK files via its Valet tool. _Developers tracking emerging Linux distros and desktop environments can follow projects like Luma on daily.dev._ ### Which phones does the Luma operating system plan to support? Luma names the Fairphone 6 and the Google Pixel 9 family as its initial smartphone targets, with plans to support more phones and tablets based on community bounty board votes where people pledge money toward getting specific devices supported. Only a desktop build is currently available as a nightly ISO. _Those evaluating convergence OS projects for mobile support can keep up with Luma's progress on daily.dev._ ### What are the minimum system requirements to try the Luma nightly ISO? The Luma nightly ISO requires a 64-bit Intel or AMD processor with at least two cores running at 2 GHz or faster, 4 GB of RAM, and 40 GB of storage with an SSD preferred. The download page lists a single 7.2 GB x86_64 nightly ISO as the recommended way to try it, with no ARM64 build available yet. _Anyone testing early-stage Linux distros can track hardware requirements and builds like Luma's on daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@renehoehle** · 4 upvotes > I think most of that Distros could be better with a great font. I don't know most times the used Font is very bad. But that looks ok so far. **@sam7work** · 3 upvotes > interesting , tho the approach might hinder the number of packages they would end up having , but maybe that won't be a huge problem **@kibongo** · 3 upvotes > They should look at Asahi Linux and support ARM macbooks. **@bob72** · 1 upvotes > Yet another vibecoders. This project will just silently fail. Was thinking I can get involved, but then noticed a number of sloppy AI stuff there. Nah, they have very low quality bar. **@sjpwarren** · 1 upvotes > Remember when windows 8 was designed to be a tablet and desktop os? How did that work out? This is like trying to hook a semi trailer to a mini. They have different purposes. 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I don’t know most times the used Font is very bad. But that looks ok so far.","datePublished":"2026-10-14T12:47:35.674Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/tS8Gyf1E3#c-U8c9mFHEp","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"René H.","url":"https://daily.dev/renehoehle","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocJ8hDDIeMWSluQCPM4cpeozwunDxUYydfDudbgcatmFJLbBF8IH=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":4}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"interesting , tho the approach might hinder the number of packages they would end up having , but maybe that won’t be a huge problem","datePublished":"2026-10-14T14:33:06.283Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/tS8Gyf1E3#c-FCnXC4cTn","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam","url":"https://daily.dev/sam7work","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocJGz1oRsDNA5jHaL8S_Dm_S69r5oVuMT_253w26IC3wacnjq1U=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"They should look at Asahi Linux and support ARM macbooks.","datePublished":"2026-10-14T10:46:29.766Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/tS8Gyf1E3#c-tZtnTJtUR","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"KIBONGO Simon Peter","url":"https://daily.dev/kibongo","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocLXNKVhVIvovYerRL1paJ7Y9hhXP4lDsb9Or0VvdeeVGTfL9sx-KQ=s96-c"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Yet another vibecoders. This project will just silently fail. Was thinking I can get involved, but then noticed a number of sloppy AI stuff there. Nah, they have very low quality bar.","datePublished":"2026-10-14T21:21:08.041Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/tS8Gyf1E3#c-IDv9fn5PB","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Bob","url":"https://daily.dev/bob72","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/193962566?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Remember when windows 8 was designed to be a tablet and desktop os? How did that work out? This is like trying to hook a semi trailer to a mini. They have different purposes. Different use cases.","datePublished":"2026-10-14T21:26:22.400Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/tS8Gyf1E3#c-Y0ZX7yJ67","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Scott","url":"https://daily.dev/sjpwarren","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1023515?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/this-new-distro-wants-to-achieve-what-ubuntu-failed-to-do-nearly-a-decade-ago-ts8gyf1e3#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What is Luma and how is it different from a typical Linux distro?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Luma is a new convergence-focused operating system built on Fedora 44 that aims to run across desktop, tablet, and phone with a unified app experience. 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