Any computer.
One command.

Carino Setup is one command that reads your machine and installs the drivers, codecs and software it needs.

A fresh install? It adds the repositories, codecs, firmware and the right graphics driver.
Setting a machine up for one job? Pick one of 15 purpose profiles, from gaming to medical imaging.
Not sure what it will change? A dry run prints every command and changes nothing.

Linux · Windows 10 and 11 · macOS 15 or newer · AGPL-3.0

Pick the machine you are setting up.

$ bash <(curl -s https://setup.carino.systems/setup.sh)

Fedora is what it is built and tested on. Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, openSUSE, RHEL and their derivatives are supported too, and Solus, Alpine, Void, Gentoo, Slackware and Mageia get the base packages, plus drivers where they are packaged (Gentoo and Slackware print the steps). Linux only: the BSDs are refused.

PS> iwr -useb https://setup.carino.systems/setup.ps1 | iex

Run Terminal as Administrator — the script stops without it. It prints what it found, installs the base apps and drivers with winget, applies the Windows 10 or 11 tweaks, offers the 15 purpose profiles and runs Windows Update.

Rehearse it first: $env:CARINO_SETUP_DRYRUN='1' before the command. Plans and the other options are under Available Arguments.

$ bash <(curl -s https://setup.carino.systems/macos.sh)

Run it as your normal user, not with sudo. It prints what it found, installs Homebrew and the base tools, offers the Finder tweaks and the 15 purpose profiles, then lists the macOS updates. macOS 15 or newer.

Rehearse it first: dry-run after the command. Plans and the other options are under Available Arguments.

Flag	Action
no argument	Interactive: checks the system, then the base setup, a desktop if none is running, purpose profiles and Carino Hyprland.
quick	Base setup, then the Basic profile's native apps and the basic and Google Flatpaks.
simple	Base setup only: repositories, upgrade, base packages, codecs, firmware and drivers.
server	Base, server and development packages, then enables SSH and Cockpit.
drivers nvidia/amd/intel	GPU drivers only. All four do the same: the GPU is detected.
desktop	Opens the desktop menu, even when a desktop is already running.
hyprland	Installs the Carino Hyprland desktop only: Atrium, for Fedora 44 and newer (elsewhere it says why not).
distrobox	Creates Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian distrobox containers.
proton	Installs the latest GE-Proton for Steam, native or Flatpak.
librewolf	Installs LibreWolf: from its repository on Fedora, EL, Debian and Ubuntu, as a Flatpak elsewhere.
anydesk	Enables Flathub and installs the AnyDesk and RustDesk flatpaks.
share	Mounts a Windows/CIFS share at ~/WinFiles.
update	Refreshes and upgrades the packages and Flatpaks.
dry-run	Goes before any argument: prints every system-changing command and changes nothing.
help	Prints the usage text.

CARINO_SETUP_PLAN

Comma-separated tokens, run left to right with no questions. One unknown token refuses the whole plan before anything runs.

Token	Action
technical	Base setup, including the drivers, then the desktop menu, which takes none under a plan.
drivers update server	The same as the arguments of the same name.
desktop=<name>	One desktop: gnome xfce kde lxqt cinnamon mate i3 openbox budgie sway hyprland niri carino-hyprland none.
hyprland	The same as desktop=carino-hyprland.
purpose=<name>	One purpose profile, may repeat: basic gaming corporate corporate-microsoft corporate-google development astronomy compneuro design music cybersecurity forensics scientific robotics imagenology.
reboot=yes\|no	Whether to reboot at the end. Default: no.

Windows · macOS

setup.ps1 and macos.sh read a plan from the same variable; the Linux arguments above do not apply to them. Tokens run left to right, and one unknown token refuses the whole plan before anything runs.

PS> $env:CARINO_SETUP_PLAN='technical,tweaks,purpose=gaming'; iwr -useb https://setup.carino.systems/setup.ps1 | iex

$ CARINO_SETUP_PLAN=technical,tweaks,purpose=design bash <(curl -s https://setup.carino.systems/macos.sh)

Token	Action
technical	Windows: base apps, Visual C++ runtimes and drivers with winget. macOS: Command Line Tools, Homebrew and the base tools.
tweaks	Windows: dark apps, file extensions and a cleaner taskbar. macOS: file extensions, the Finder path bar, no .DS_Store on network drives and a screenshots folder.
update	Windows: upgrades every winget app, then Windows Update. macOS: brew upgrade, then the macOS updates.
drivers wsl	Windows only: the drivers step alone, and WSL with Ubuntu.
purpose=<name> reboot=yes\|no	The same names and defaults as on Linux.
CARINO_SETUP_DRYRUN=1	Prints every system-changing command and changes nothing. On macOS, dry-run after the command does the same.