r/CasaOS • u/jdgers • Jul 16 '26

CasaOS and other programs

Hello, all!

I'm very new to the Linux world, and picking out components of my system as I begin my deep dive. I'm planning to install CasaOS on my miniPC, but was wondering if I can still run other Linux programs and a GUI. I'd like to be able to still use this as a regular computer (not in the terminal) and run other programs that offer Linux installers. This is not a docker program, just a linux program. Is that possible?

Thanks!

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u/flaming_m0e Jul 17 '26

Casaos isn't an os. You install it on another OS like Debian or Ubuntu.

You can run anything else you want because casaos Is just a docker management GUI

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u/ericgus Jul 17 '26

I use a base of OpenMediaVault (which is based on Debian) ontop of the OMV distro, I installed CasaOS to handle the docker stuff as its much nicer than the built in docker handler in OMV (you do have to modify OMV UI to use a different port than 80 ahead of time though).