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.

• 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 nebula command-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.