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Cicada.os – Graphene.os for Your Laptop
Cicada.OS is a privacy and security focused laptop operating system,
developed as an open source project. It hardens defaults, owns the launcher,
and ships Graphene-shaped permissions — without making you fight the machine for Wi‑Fi, files, or a browser.
Official releases land on the download page.
Installation instructions are on the install page.
Claims stay honest about silicon — see the table below.
Cicada boots to a Hyprland desktop on an Intel MacBook Air. Most of the hardening
on this site is verified structurally — the configuration says the thing —
and a growing part of it is now verified against a real Linux kernel.
Little of it has been exercised on hardware end to end.
Do not rely on this for anything that matters yet.
Splitting “unverified” into those three lists is not bookkeeping — it is what exposed
the last five defects, including a session duress credential that had never fired.
Full list: Status in the README.
Cicada will never ship a fake Titan story on Apple EFI.
Arch remains the package engine; the product layer is what you touch.
Kitty is Owner adb — power user escape, not the UI.