Desktop first
GNOME, GDM, PipeWire, Ghostty, Flatpak, printing, remote desktop, and practical accessibility support are part of the image.
Snow · GNOME workstation
A desktop that
holds its shape.
Snow is the everyday Frostyard workstation: a GNOME desktop with an atomic operating system below it and practical places for the tools above it.
GNOME desktop · Backports kernel · Atomic updates
Current hardware stack
The Debian backports kernel, graphics stack, and broad firmware set keep a workstation current without turning it into a rolling release.
Work-friendly layers
ChairLift, Homebrew support, Podman, Distrobox, and system extensions give development and desktop software a place to live.
For a daily machine
Work on the surface.
Keep the system below calm.
Use extensions for system-adjacent software, containers for development environments, and user-space package tools for everything personal. Snow keeps those choices separate without making them feel distant.