Nebula Linux is an Arch-based rolling release Linux distribution built around DankMaterialShell and the niri scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
The distribution offers a heavily themed Material 3 desktop. Matugen generates a colour scheme from the selected wallpaper and applies it across the shell, lock screen, terminals, and GTK and Qt applications. Nebula also provides a branded Calamares installer, a welcome application, and its own command-line utility for system maintenance and recovery.
Key Features
- Automatically generates a Material 3 colour scheme from the selected wallpaper.
- Offers scrollable tiling and conventional floating window modes.
- Installs to Btrfs with automatic Snapper snapshots before and after updates.
- Allows earlier snapshots to be booted from the GRUB menu.
- Provides a branded Calamares graphical system installer.
- Includes Nebula Welcome for onboarding, application bundles, and enabling Flathub.
- Offers the
nebulacommand-line utility for updates, rollback, drivers, diagnostics, wallpapers, and other system tasks. - Uses PipeWire with WirePlumber for audio and NetworkManager for network management.
- Includes Firefox, LibreOffice, Nautilus, Celluloid, Loupe, Evince, and other desktop applications.
- Provides guest tools for QEMU/KVM, VirtualBox, and VMware.
- Requires a UEFI system; legacy BIOS boot is not supported.
| Working state: | Active |
| Desktop: | DankMaterialShell |
| Init Software: | systemd |
| Package Management: | Pacman |
| Release Model: | Rolling |
| Platforms: | x86_64 |
| Home Page: | nebula-linux-os.github.io/Nebula-Linux |
| Developer: | Ashish Kumar |
| This article is part of our Big List of Active Linux Distributions. |
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