AbstractOS

Building an installer that respects your time

Four screens, encryption by default, and a recovery key you will actually keep. The story of the AbstractOS installer.

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Priya Raman1 min read
AbstractOS installer showing installation type choices

Installing an operating system is the first impression. We wanted ours to take four screens and fewer than ten minutes.

  1. 1

    Language and keyboard

    Detected automatically, confirmed with one tap.

  2. 2

    Installation type

    Erase disk, install alongside, or advanced partitioning.

  3. 3

    Encryption

    On by default, with a printable recovery key.

  4. 4

    Account

    Create your user and you are done.

Installation type selection screen
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Design Lead

Priya maintains the AbstractOS design language, from the slash-circle-triangle mark to every pixel in Files.