Live ISO images
Every ISO image comes in two flavors. You have the base image, and the desktop images.
Base images
Base images are fully bootable. However, they only come with a small set of packages and therefore only provide a console environment. You should use base images if you want complete control over what your final system will be like, but such setups also require more knowledge.
Desktop images
Desktop images come with a full graphical environment. The official desktop for Chimera is GNOME. There are also images with KDE Plasma. Other graphical environments are available in the repositories.
Note that any image can be used to install any desktop. The images merely boot into that desktop for the live environment and a local (non-network) installation will by default install it.
Desktop images boot into a Wayland environment.
Device images
Some devices cannot be supported with the live images.
They are typically single-board computers that use the U-Boot or a similar
bootloader.
Chimera has the compressed .img files for download, which can be flashed
onto an SD card or similar. It also comes with rootfs tarballs from which
the .img files can be generated using Chimera’s tooling.