JCCHOME GNU/Linux 3 pairs a full KDE Plasma 6 desktop on Debian Trixie with a System Settings suite that manages Active Directory, certificates, mail, and kernels — the infrastructure most distros leave to the terminal.
| Name | Type |
|---|---|
| jdoe | User |
| svc-backup | Service account |
| WIN-DC01$ | Computer |
Most distros stop at the desktop and leave directory services, certificates, mail, and kernel management to a pile of mismatched dashboards and SSH sessions. JCCHOME3 folds all of it into native, KAuth-secured System Settings modules — the same place you already go to change your wallpaper.
KDE Plasma 6 on a Debian Trixie base, with kernel, GPU, and swap behavior all configurable from System Settings instead of config files you'll forget you edited.
Join a Samba4 domain and manage users, groups, computers, DNS, sites, GPOs, and shares from one panel — the RSAT replacement Linux never shipped with.
Issue and manage certificates with a built-in step-ca authority, enroll devices into your AD over SCEP, and put Authentik in front of everything for single sign-on.
Postfix, Dovecot, Roundcube, ClamAV, SpamAssassin, Fail2Ban, and Certbot, configured together instead of across seven separate config files and init scripts.
Manage systemd services and switch NVIDIA drivers through KAuth-secured panels that ask for elevation once, not every single time.
Time sync and password policy tools that already know they're talking to a Samba4 AD, not a generic NTP daemon and a guess.
KDE Plasma 6 plus the right drivers underneath means Steam and Lutris work the way they're supposed to, not the way you have to coax them into working.
Steam ships as a Flatpak, so Proton and runtime updates land fast and stay isolated from the base system — no missing 32-bit libraries to go hunting for.
GOG, Epic, emulators, and one-off Windows-only installers all run through Lutris, usually on the same Proton and Wine builds Steam already uses.
The NVIDIA and GPU selector modules aren't sysadmin tools wearing a costume — they're the same driver and GPU-switching plumbing that makes Steam and Lutris perform well in the first place.
Every kernel JCCHOME3 ships — vanilla, lts, and legacy — is compiled in-house on a dedicated build host and published to a private apt repository instead of pulled blind from upstream. When the CrackArmor disclosure landed, patched 6.18.19 and 6.19.9 builds were already in the repo within days, not the next point release.
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sudo autoupgrade
sudo apt install linux-image-jcchome-lts