NebiOS Recap — April 2026

Hey pals, after the burnout that happened, I took some time off during midterms. But I'm back now, and there's been more going on behind the scenes than I expected — a rethought homepage, a batch of fixes that needed to happen, and something that genuinely surprised me in a good way. Let's go through it.

A homepage that actually introduces NebiOS

The old homepage did the job, but only barely. It had a hero and a grid of cards that answered "Why NebiOS?" — and that was more or less it. Not enough to actually tell you what NebiOS is, or make you feel anything about it.

Old hero

New hero

So I rebuilt it. The hero section is new, and the card grid is now replaced with scrollable slides — move through them with the page dots at the bottom, or just scroll. Each one covers a different part of the project: NebiDE, NebiOS Application Bundles, Flat-Skeuomorphism, NebiCloud, the Artist Support Program, and where NebiOS is headed. The text itself is also different — less corporate, more honest.

At the bottom, there are now awards and press logos. Small thing, but it fills in context that was missing before.

I've also added support and FAQ pages. A full documentation system is planned, but for now there's a working FAQ covering the most common questions and known issues — things like VM performance differences, why the close and minimize buttons are where they are, how updates work, and a bunch of other things I keep getting asked on Discord. Check there first before hitting me up.

One more: blog posts are now indexed in Global Search — the gear icon in the header. Should make older posts easier to find.

10.2.1 — what's fixed

No new features. 10.2.1 is a focused fix release: things that should have worked correctly from the start, cleaned up.

Before the list, a genuine thank you to vista, kib, Kris F. (Toshy developer) and more for the bug reports and testing. Kris in particular sent a detailed compatibility report that directly caused several of the infrastructure fixes below. This release is better because of them.

Localization & Language

• Locale filenames now correctly handle accented and variant characters.
• Visible language names are now generated via python3-babel instead of hardcoded strings.
• New accent/variant selection screen in OOBE: after picking a language, you can now choose the regional variant (Brazilian vs. European Portuguese, US vs. UK English, etc.).
• Fixed the bug where language codes were saved incorrectly (e.g. en_EN instead of en_US), causing subtle issues with date formats and collation.
• Spanish translation is on the way — more on that below.

OOBE

• Fixed an issue where, if the intro video failed to play after the hardware check screen — for whatever reason — setup would silently stall and leave you on a white screen with a small black square in the middle. The fix is in how GStreamer errors are now handled: instead of hanging, setup moves on the same way it would after a normal video end.

Display Settings

• Clicking a monitor in the arrangement diagram now correctly updates the settings panel — the two were out of sync before.
• The enable/disable toggle is now grayed out when only one monitor is active, preventing you from disabling every display.
• Display configuration changes now show a 15-second confirmation dialog. If you don't confirm or the new config breaks your display, it reverts automatically. Borrowed from GNOME and Windows because it just makes sense.

Regional Settings

• The timezone picker now has an interactive map — click your region instead of scrolling a list.
• The "Auto timezone" toggle has been temporarily removed. It was only toggling NTP sync, not actually detecting your timezone — which isn't what it implied. A proper implementation is planned.

NebiDE Core

• Fixed a long-standing DBus session configuration issue responsible for a range of intermittent bugs across apps and system integrations.
• Apps that adapt their behavior based on the desktop environment were treating NebiOS as GNOME. Fixed through proper XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP registration.
• The nebide-disable-dbusactivatable startup workaround is now disabled — no longer needed.

Shell

• Shell-level dialogs (trash confirmations, Super+Enter reminder, etc.) are now managed through a centralized system called nebide-shellaction.
• The panel clock now updates every 5 seconds instead of every minute.
• Fixed: hovering the clock now shows the date in the tooltip.

Infrastructure

• Btrfs is now officially unsupported and disabled at the installer level. On btrfs, home directories were being created under /home instead of /Users, leaving no users visible at login. Since btrfs was never tested or listed as supported, disabling it is the right call. Contributions welcome.
• Fixed an issue where apps reading /etc/os-release would identify the system as "Ubuntu 10.2" instead of NebiOS. Now follows the same convention as Pop!_OS and Linux Mint.
• wcm and wdisplays now show a NebiDE-specific warning on launch, directing you to Control Center. Both tools remain accessible through the dialog for advanced use.

There are also a few smaller fixes that didn't make it onto this list — the usual assortment of things that are just quietly better now.

10.2.1 is now in public beta — available as an ISO for clean installs (no Nvidia driver build this time, this one's for the curious rather than newcomers) and as a beta update through Bundle Store. To opt in on your current installation: go to Bundle Store → Settings → NebiOS Updates and enable "Enable beta update channel". The update will either appear in Bundle Store → Updates directly or get picked up by bs-update-notifier at your next login — heads up that bs-update-notifier only runs at session start, so if your machine is already on, Bundle Store is where to look.

Estamos añadiendo unas funciones nuevas a NebiOS.

vista (@asdesdq), a community member who stumbled upon NebiOS while looking through different Linux distros, reached out and offered to help translate the UI into Spanish; that's roughly 1,200 strings across NebiDE, Control Center, the napp runtime, and OOBE. The plan is to ship it alongside the 10.2.1 stable release. 10.2.1 won't go out before the translations are ready, and there's no rush on either side.

Note: the public beta won't include the Spanish translation — that's coming with the stable release.

A note on NebiOS 11

Google is still showing 2026 as the target for NebiOS 11. That information is outdated. NebiOS 11 is targeting 2027. I don't have a more specific timeframe to share yet, and I won't commit to one until I do. When there's something real to show, I'll write about it properly.

Until then, NebiOS 10.3 will be the last major feature and content update in the NebiOS X line — that includes potential new artist partnerships beyond Loading Artist and Safely Endangered. After 10.3, focus shifts toward 11. Whether a 10.2.2 happens is still open.

Thanks for sticking around. — Sarp M.