Daily AcreetionOS Update -- September 23, 2026

Firefox uBlock Origin support just landed in AcreetionOS-Xlibre, closing a notable gap for privacy-minded users who want both the XLibre fork and aggressive ad blocking out of the gate.

Development Natalie and Darren have been syncing intelligence across the newsletter, archive, and wiki guides with near-daily commits to the website repo, keeping documentation tight behind the scenes. The acreetionos-immutable pipeline picked up a couple of CI fixes this week too, with a release.yml indentation fix and a no-checkout flag for gh release create smoothing out the immutable ISO workflow. On the kernel front, stable updates keep flowing, though the big headline was Linux 7.2 landing in the Arch ISO world upstream, which AcreetionOS will likely track soon given the project's rolling cadence.

Community AcreetionOS is getting some press love this month, with BetaNews calling it the easy-to-use alternative to Windows 10/11 and Medium contributor Michael Swengel declaring it maybe the best Arch-based distro he's ever used. The coverage is resonating, especially among folks who want Arch without the daily babysitting, and Spokane-based co-leads Natalie Cole-Clift Spiva and Darren Clift are fielding the resulting influx of new users on Discord and the forums. If you're one of those newcomers, the flash guide at https://acreetionos.org/flash.html walks through writing your first ISO to USB in just a few clicks.

Tip of the day Want to skip the GUI and install from a live session? Boot the ISO, open a terminal, and run sudo calamares -d to launch the installer with debug logging enabled. That gives you real-time output if anything goes sideways during partitioning or package setup, and the full install guide lives over at https://acreetionos.org/docs.html.