Always getting better.

Alpha 2

Four new apps and the details Windows users notice first. Out 10 November 2026.

• Remote. Our own app for servers and PCs: a terminal with tabs, snippets and suggestions, file transfer both ways, full-screen remote desktop, Windows mode's own desktop in a click, and a keychain that never leaves your PC.
• Mail and Calendar. One inbox for every account, trackers blocked, pictures from strangers held back, and invitations you can answer from the email.
• Write and Tables. Documents and spreadsheets that open and save Word and Excel files by default.
• Windows mode on the taskbar. Pause, save or resume Windows from its own taskbar panel. It asks before shutting down while you still have work open, and your product key now reaches Windows.
• Install from a file. Open a .deb or .flatpak file and the Store installs it, with a clear warning that Wild OS hasn't checked it.
• Easier to see. Accessibility settings to outline windows, make text on glass stronger and blur the windows you aren't using.
• Calmer under load. Compressed memory keeps more apps open, and a runaway app is stopped before it can freeze the PC.
• Taskbar previews and peek. Hover a taskbar app to see each window, and hover a preview to bring it forward.
• Snap assist. Snap a window to one half and pick what fills the other.
• Quick Look. Press Space in Files to preview any file.
• Themes and RGB lighting. Six one-click themes, new wallpapers made for Wild OS, and a flowing RGB underglow on the taskbar that compatible keyboards and mice can follow with OpenRGB.
• Smaller things. End task and close from the taskbar, Show desktop, screen corners, Super+` to step through an app's windows, a title bar double-click setting, seconds and battery percentage in the taskbar, a Keep awake tile, lid and power button choices, quiet hours, your regional formats everywhere, update notes in Settings, and fixes for USB protection, dialogs and the Recycle Bin.

In development

No dates until they're ready. Watch the project on GitHub to hear first.

• Windows programs open instantly. The window appears the moment you click, with a progress animation while Windows mode starts.

Alpha 1

The first public release

• A desktop rebuilt from scratch. Start, the taskbar, Settings, Task Manager, system dialogs and over 70 screens in one design, in light and dark.
• An installer that protects you. From USB stick to desktop, with whole-disk encryption on by default and a recovery key.
• Windows mode. Your Windows programs as normal windows, using the Windows 11 Pro licence already in your PC.
• Hardened underneath. Debian with deep security hardening, signed updates and restarts that wait for you.
• A Store with sandboxed apps. Apps from Debian and Flathub that ask before using your camera or microphone.

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