Roadmap

What is done, what is being finished, and what comes next. No dates for what is not built: a step is done when it has been seen working, and it is listed here when that is true.

Lately

• 14 October 2026. Keyboard shortcuts: a page with the keys worth knowing on Atrium; the desktop's own were each tried on our virtual test machine.
• 13 October 2026. Play together: on the 24HG site, and so in the Hub, a signed-in member can start a party, ask friends in, and with one press hand everyone the way into the same game: the leader's own lobby or server, or one of our servers. Each member gets a Play button or, for a server Steam cannot open, its address to copy; the game starts by itself only for a member who switched that on. Seen on the live site with our test account: a party started, a server chosen, and the party ended. Seen only with stand-in answers in a test browser: an invitation, a member's view and a start. On 14 October the party card was seen in the Hub on a real laptop, signed in; nothing on it was pressed. Not yet seen: a party started inside the Hub, and two real members in one party.
• 13 October 2026. Challenges and S-Coins: on the 24HG site, and so in the Hub, a signed-in member has a card beside the home feed with their S-Coins, the daily reward and their challenges, and claims a reward there. Underneath, challenges were repaired: they are drawn only from kinds the site counts, and a reward is paid once. Seen on the live site with our test account: the daily reward and a completed challenge, each claimed once and refused a second time. The card was seen in the Hub on a real laptop, signed in, on 14 October. Not yet seen: a reward claimed in the Hub. A challenge handed out before this change can still ask for something that is not open that day, such as a vote when no poll is open.
• 13 October 2026. Coming up: on the 24HG site, and so in the Hub, a card beside the home feed shows the next Rust wipes and, when there is one, the next tournament. Seen on the live site, signed in, with the next two wipes. The card was seen in the Hub on a real laptop, signed in, on 14 October. Not yet seen: a tournament in it.
• 13 October 2026. Help us test: a page with what to try on the website, on our game servers and on Atrium, and what to send us when something goes wrong.
• 13 October 2026. Join beside a friend: on the 24HG site, and so in the Hub, a friend who is in a game that can be joined has a Join button, whoever runs the game. It shows for a friend who has linked Steam to 24HG and shares their game. Seen: the button, with made-up friends in a test browser. A link of this kind started a game on one of our own servers from our laptop, and 24HG then made the same link from Steam's real answer. Not yet seen: the button between two real friends, a lobby of a real game, the button inside the Hub.
• 13 October 2026. Atrium can be installed onto a USB drive in place of the PC's own disk. Seen on one virtual test machine, where every byte of the Windows-style disk beside it was the same afterwards. The download page says how, and what to know first.
• 13 October 2026. The Steam library in the Hub: on a real laptop, Play started a game made for Linux and one made for Windows, and Install and Uninstall did their work. Steam asks you to confirm an install and an uninstall in its own window.
• 11 October 2026. The sign-in screen no longer offers "24HG Game Mode". On the PC we tried it on it showed a black screen, so it is out until it works. The desktop your PC starts in is not affected.
• 11 October 2026. The "Favorites" column of the application list shows Atrium's own choice. Until now it showed the list of the system underneath. The page you see when 24HG does not answer was rewritten.
• 11 October 2026. Send feedback, in the application list: write to us from the PC. The page shows which details of the PC would be attached, and none are unless you tick their box.
• 11 October 2026. The app store has a page of our own picks, under its tab "Curated". The store still opens on Flathub's own page.
• 10 October 2026. The 24HG privacy policy has a section about Atrium.
• 10 October 2026. Mojang's Minecraft launcher is among the standard apps, in a package made by the Flathub community, beside Prism Launcher. If its download fails, find it in the App Store.
• 10 October 2026. A hint after the first sign-in when the clock is still on the installer's time zone.
• 10 October 2026. Check for updates says within seconds that a new version was found, and a stray key can no longer restart the PC from its window.
• 10 October 2026. Both installers show our logo and colours where they showed those of the system underneath.
• 10 October 2026. A small installer, 1.2 GB, that downloads the system while it installs. It is for small USB sticks and has been used on virtual test machines so far.
• 10 October 2026. The large installer was renewed with build 20261010d, and a newly installed PC is called "atrium" on the network.
• 9 October 2026. Counter-Strike 1.6 starts on a laptop with Intel graphics. The system used to stop its old game engine; an update changed that.
• 9 October 2026. Prism Launcher for Minecraft is among the standard apps.
• 9 October 2026. A first real PC: Atrium runs on a laptop with Intel graphics.
• 9 October 2026. The installer is open for download, as an early release. It is one file that chooses between three systems by the graphics card.
• 9 October 2026. A third system, for newer NVIDIA graphics cards, beside the one for most PCs and the one for older NVIDIA cards.
• 9 October 2026. The signature check is on: Atrium refuses an update that is not signed by us. A stable channel exists beside the testing one.
• 9 October 2026. Privacy and reports, in the application list, says what Atrium sends and holds the switch for the weekly count.
• 8 October 2026. The system is called Atrium. It was called HubOS before.

Done

Starting and using it

• 24HG Mode: the computer starts in the Hub, with the sidebar always on screen and a normal desktop one click away.
• The first start: a welcome page for 24HG, Steam and Discord, and the standard apps installing themselves in the background.
• Servers in the Hub, and Vox in a window of its own.
• An app store for ordinary applications. It is the store of the system Atrium is built on, with a page of our own picks.

Updates

• Updates from our own servers that arrive by themselves, small when little has changed.
• A Check for updates entry that says within seconds what it found, and offers the restart in a way a stray key cannot trigger.
• Every published update is signed, and Atrium refuses one that is not.
• A stable channel beside the testing one: we move a version to stable ourselves, after it has started on our test machines.

Installing

• One installer for all three systems. It chooses by the graphics card: one for most PCs, one for older NVIDIA cards, one for newer ones.
• A small installer that downloads the system while it installs, for small USB sticks.
• Both installers in our own look.
• The installer asks for your account, and Atrium starts with Secure Boot switched on after you have confirmed one key.
• The installer is open for download, as an early release.

Privacy

• Privacy and reports says in plain words what Atrium sends, and holds the switch for the weekly count.
• Send feedback sends nothing before you press Send, and shows what would be attached.
• The 24HG privacy policy has a section about Atrium.
• Atrium has no program that reports to 24HG about you or your computer by itself.

Being finished

• Tests on more real PCs and real graphics cards. So far Atrium runs on virtual test machines and on one laptop with Intel graphics; the early release is how the rest gets tested: help us test.
• NVIDIA graphics cards. The installer chooses a system for them; we have seen neither that choice nor those systems on a real NVIDIA card.

Next

What we work on after that. None of it is built, and none of it comes with a date.

• A weekly report from the PC to 24HG that helps us find faults. What it holds is not settled. It will be off until you say yes.
• Clips sent to 24HG Highlights: save the last moments of a game with one key on Atrium, and send the clip to Highlights, where your friends can see it.

Later

Ideas for later. None of them is built, and the order is not fixed.

• A store in our own look, in place of the store of the system underneath.
• A mode for LAN events and gaming rooms whose games run on Atrium. Parked on 14 October 2026. General internet cafes are not planned, because many of the games they live on refuse to run on Linux, by their publishers' choice.
• Hosting a game server from your own PC, and starting a NovaStack server for the party.
• Fair Play built in, and a ranked mode that queues, starts the server and launches the game.
• Versions for handhelds and older PCs, and a USB stick to try Atrium without installing it.