# FydeOS ## Identification `.appx` identifies a Windows application package. [[Connected Devices Platform|Connected Devices Platform]] supports cross-device experiences in Windows. [[FydeOS|FydeOS]] is a Chromium-OS-based system that supports web, Android, and Linux application environments ([FydeOS overview](https://fydeos.io/help/faq/about-fydeos/what-is-fydeos/)). [[Bliss OS|Bliss OS]] brings Android-derived systems to PCs, while [[Sailfish OS|Sailfish OS]] is a mobile Linux platform. ## Notebook evidence - [[Scanned_20260730-1719#PDF page 17 — Windows packages, connected devices, and alternate operating systems|PDF page 17: Windows packages, connected devices, and alternate operating systems]] — The page begins in Windows package archaeology and then escapes into alternate operating systems. The common question is how a device’s application model can be replaced or extended across Windows, Chromium, Android, and mobile Linux. - [[Scanned_20260730-1719#PDF page 25 — antiX, runlevels, terminals, and an alternate-OS shortlist|PDF page 25: antiX, runlevels, terminals, and an alternate-OS shortlist]] — The author is testing how low-resource or alternate systems reach a usable graphical environment and how files enter that environment. The shortlist ranges from desktop Linux to Chromium OS and mobile OS, reinforcing that the target is a transferable computing experience rather than one distribution. ## Relationships and overlays The source places this note in a shared evidence cluster with [[antiX|antiX]] · [[Bliss OS|Bliss OS]] · [[Connected Devices Platform|Connected Devices Platform]] · [[IceWM|IceWM]] · [[KaiOS|KaiOS]] · [[Kernel Mode Setting|Kernel Mode Setting]] · [[Mageia|Mageia]] · [[ROX Desktop|ROX Desktop]] · [[Sailfish OS|Sailfish OS]] · [[Scanned_20260730-1706|Scanned_20260730-1706]] · [[SpringBoard|SpringBoard]]. Within the larger collection, this evidence extends [[Vendor-Agnostic Recovery|vendor-agnostic recovery]] and [[Continuity Architecture|continuity architecture]] by showing how software, hardware, identity, and pre-OS control depend on recoverable interfaces. ## Evidentiary status and open leads Resolve the APPX publisher suffix and whether “IHDR” is a filename, PNG chunk type, or acronym copied from inspection output. ### Disambiguation: FydeOS and “Fyade” Do not normalize “Fyade” in [[Scanned_20260730-1650#PDF page 4 — Librem 5, Inseego hotspot, SIM provenance, and “Fyade” concern|Scanned_20260730-1650, PDF page 4]] to FydeOS. The corrected reading is “Fyade installed” in a passage about T-Mobile SIMs and the girls’ phones. The vault owner recalls another note suggesting “maybe Fing,” but that wording has not yet been located in the integrated Markdown corpus. No package identifier, vendor, screenshot, or other evidence currently connects “Fyade” to FydeOS. See [[Fyade Software|Fyade Software]] for the unresolved reference. ## Source - [[Scanned_20260730-1719|Scanned_20260730-1719]]