diff --git a/misc/build.func b/misc/build.func
index 0ec6e64..71792e4 100644
--- a/misc/build.func
+++ b/misc/build.func
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ base_settings() {
     RAM_SIZE=${var_ram:-$RAM_SIZE}
     VERB=${var_verbose:-$VERBOSE}
     TAGS="${TAGS}${var_tags:-}"
-    ENABLE_FUSE="${var_fuse:-${ENABLE_FUSE:-0}}"
+    ENABLE_FUSE="${var_fuse:-${ENABLE_FUSE:-no}}"
 
     # Since these 2 are only defined outside of default_settings function, we add a temporary fallback. TODO: To align everything, we should add these as constant variables (e.g. OSTYPE and OSVERSION), but that would currently require updating the default_settings function for all existing scripts
     if [ -z "$var_os" ]; then