--- title: GNOME Wants to Let You Test Experimental Features... description: GNOME is prototyping a new app called Test Center to make testing experimental features safer and more accessible, especially on image-based systems like GNOME... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/gnome-wants-to-let-you-test-experimental-features-without-breaking-anything-kpfz6bfa1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GNOME Wants to Let You Test Experimental Features Without Breaking Anything | daily.dev og:description: GNOME is prototyping a new app called Test Center to make testing experimental features safer and more accessible, especially on image-based systems like GNOME... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/gnome-wants-to-let-you-test-experimental-features-without-breaking-anything-kpfz6bfa1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kpfz6bfA1.png og:image:alt: GNOME Wants to Let You Test Experimental Features Without Breaking Anything og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GNOME Wants to Let You Test Experimental Features Without Breaking Anything **[It's Foss](https://daily.dev/sources/itsfoss)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary GNOME is prototyping a new app called Test Center to make testing experimental features safer and more accessible, especially on image-based systems like GNOME OS. For apps, developers can share a link to a CI build that installs as a tagged experimental Flatpak with automatic expiry. For system components, sysext images are used as overlays rather than replacements, so removing them fully restores the previous state. The project is part of the GNOME OS Developer Tool Suite, funded by Germany's Prototype Fund since June 2026, with the team also planning easier CLI tool distribution for image-based systems. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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