Get Orynr

Try it without touching your computer.

Write Orynr to a USB stick and boot from it. Nothing is written to your disk, and you can stop at any point by removing the stick. About ten minutes, most of it waiting.

The download

orynr-live.iso Coming soon

About 4 GB

One file, and it is the whole system. Write it to a USB stick and boot from it to try Orynr without changing anything on your computer. When you like it, the same stick installs it properly.

There is one download because there is only one thing to choose. No editions, no formats to compare, nothing to get wrong.

Also in the folder orynr-secureboot.cer, the certificate you enrol if you want to run with Secure Boot switched on. See Secure Boot.

Before you start

What your computer needs

Orynr is a full operating system with an on-device AI, so it asks a little more than a phone app and a little less than a gaming PC. It will still run on the minimum, and the assistant just works with a smaller memory and answers a bit slower.

Minimum it runs

  • 4 GB memory (RAM)
  • 2 processor cores, 64-bit
  • 12 GB free disk space
  • Hardware virtualization (Intel VT-x or AMD-V) for the strongest app isolation

Below 8 GB the assistant keeps a small memory to stay responsive, and tells you so on first run. Everything else works fully: the verified system, the firewall, the sandbox and the virus scanner.

Recommended smooth

  • 16 GB memory (RAM), though 8 GB is comfortably usable
  • 4 processor cores or more
  • 32 GB free disk space
  • A graphics card helps the AI, but is not required

The built-in assistant (a 4 GB download from Hugging Face) understands text, photos and screenshots. It stays as the background helper even if you add a larger model later. Creating images is a separate add-on in the Store.

Not sure? Install it anyway. Orynr checks your machine on the first screen and tells you plainly if anything is tight. It never refuses to run, it just sets your expectations honestly.

Step one

Writing the USB stick

You need a stick of 4 GB or more, and Rufus, a free tool from rufus.ie that runs straight from the download without installing.

  1. Plug in the stick and open Rufus. Check Device is the right drive. Rufus erases whatever is selected here, so if two drives are listed, unplug the one you want to keep and look again.
  2. Click SELECT and choose orynr-live.iso.
  3. Leave everything else as Rufus set it. Partition scheme GPT and target UEFI (non CSM) is what it should choose by itself.
  4. Click START. If it asks about ISO mode or DD mode, take ISO mode. Two to five minutes.
If Rufus does not show the file Check the dropdown beside the filename box is set to show disc images. Rufus looks for those by default, so this only comes up if it was changed before.

Ventoy, if you already use it

Copy orynr-live.iso onto the Ventoy stick alongside your other images and pick Orynr from the menu at boot. Nothing is erased, so this is the least destructive option.

Step two

Telling the computer to boot from it

Most computers boot from their internal drive and ignore a USB stick unless you say otherwise. Restart and press the setup key as it powers on.

MakerSetupOne-time boot menu
DellF2F12
HPEsc, then F10Esc, then F9
LenovoF1 or F2F12
ASUS, AcerF2 or DelF8 or Esc
Most othersF2, F10, Del or EscF12

The one-time boot menu is usually the better choice: pick the USB stick once and nothing about the machine's normal behaviour changes.

Settings that matter

Boot mode → UEFINot Legacy or CSM. Orynr boots as a modern UEFI system, and in Legacy mode the stick will not even be listed.
Secure Boot → offUnless you have enrolled our certificate. Firmware will not run a bootloader signed by a key it does not know, and refuses with a "security violation". See Secure Boot to keep it on instead.
Fast Boot → offFast Boot skips USB detection during startup, so the stick is never seen at all.
Boot orderUSB before the internal drive, if you are not using the one-time menu.
Running from USB is slower than a real install. A USB stick is far slower than an internal drive, so starting up and opening applications will drag. That is the stick, not the operating system. Everything works, and it is the right way to decide whether you want Orynr before giving it a disk.

Or skip the stick

Run it in a virtual machine

Often easier, and it cannot touch your real disks.

FirmwareUEFI, not BIOS. In VMware this is Options → Advanced → Firmware type.
DiscPoint the virtual machine at orynr-live.iso as its disc, the same way you would install any other system. Give it an empty hard disk of 40 GB or more if you want to install rather than just look.
Resources4 CPU cores and 8 GB of memory if you can spare them.
GraphicsTurn on Accelerate 3D graphics. It makes a large difference to how the desktop feels, because without it everything is drawn on the CPU.

If it does not boot

The stick is not listed in the boot menu

Almost always Secure Boot still switched on, or firmware still in Legacy/CSM mode. Check both. Fast Boot can also hide it.

It boots straight into Windows as usual

The boot order did not change, or Fast Boot skipped the stick. Use the one-time boot menu key from the table above instead.

"Security violation", or the machine refuses the loader

Secure Boot rejecting a bootloader signed with a key your firmware does not know. Either switch Secure Boot off, or enrol our certificate and keep it on.

It starts and then the screen goes black

Usually graphics. Reboot and choose the safe graphics entry in the Orynr boot menu, which avoids mode-setting. If that works, the machine needs a driver we do not enable by default, and it is worth telling us which machine.

It seems to hang partway through

Give it longer than feels reasonable on a USB stick. If it truly stops, reboot and choose the entry that shows boot messages, which prints what it is doing instead of hiding it behind the splash. The last line before it stops is the useful part.

Once it starts