This is a big update for a relatively small community distro. Kudos to the team.
A summary of some of the cooler features:
Performance: General performance improvements on all hardware resulting from optimizing for Pinebook Pro and Raspberry Pi - namely, reducing and asynchronizing inter-process communication between desktop components, removing unused code, and reducing disk I/O.
Firmware: Linux Vendor Firmware Service now built-in, enabling firmware updates from within the OS.
Flatpak: all-in on flatpak, all AppCenter apps are flatpaks, as well as some Elementary apps like Web.
Portals: apps must explicitly request permission to get access to files or interact with other apps. Can tweak these permissions in System Settings.
Mail: The Mail app now sandboxes html emails.
Multi-Touch: Extended from supporting just desktop to various apps now too.
Multi-Tasking: Better hot corners + new window and workspace controls.
CalDav: Tasks and Calendar now designed around the CalDav format, making importing and sharing of tasks and calendar items with other CalDav apps easier.
Dark Theme: system-wide, applies to GTK apps too.
Terminal: smart-paste protection extended from sudo pastes to multi-line pastes.
More OEM/Vendor friendly:
- Installer is simplified and streamlined - network connectivity, user account creation, and updates moved out of the installer and into the installed OS. Better for vendors & OEMs.
- Startup is intentionally non-Elementary-branded, better enabling OEM/Vendor branded startup splash screen — "we don’t need to constantly advertise your operating system to you".
"- Startup is intentionally non-Elementary-branded, better enabling OEM/Vendor branded startup splash screen — "we don’t need to constantly advertise your operating system to you"."
Dang, I really like their logo and it sorta feels nice to see it on bootup. I'm sure there is some way to bring it back though, and it's a tiny thing that, like they said, will probably be far outweighed by the benefit it brings to OEMs.
>- Installer is simplified and streamlined - network connectivity, user account creation, and updates moved out of the installer and into the installed OS. Better for vendors & OEMs.
Maybe the awkward stretched out time zone map is gone too?
A summary of some of the cooler features:
Performance: General performance improvements on all hardware resulting from optimizing for Pinebook Pro and Raspberry Pi - namely, reducing and asynchronizing inter-process communication between desktop components, removing unused code, and reducing disk I/O.
Firmware: Linux Vendor Firmware Service now built-in, enabling firmware updates from within the OS.
Flatpak: all-in on flatpak, all AppCenter apps are flatpaks, as well as some Elementary apps like Web.
Portals: apps must explicitly request permission to get access to files or interact with other apps. Can tweak these permissions in System Settings.
Mail: The Mail app now sandboxes html emails.
Multi-Touch: Extended from supporting just desktop to various apps now too.
Multi-Tasking: Better hot corners + new window and workspace controls.
CalDav: Tasks and Calendar now designed around the CalDav format, making importing and sharing of tasks and calendar items with other CalDav apps easier.
Dark Theme: system-wide, applies to GTK apps too.
Terminal: smart-paste protection extended from sudo pastes to multi-line pastes.
More OEM/Vendor friendly:
- Installer is simplified and streamlined - network connectivity, user account creation, and updates moved out of the installer and into the installed OS. Better for vendors & OEMs.
- Startup is intentionally non-Elementary-branded, better enabling OEM/Vendor branded startup splash screen — "we don’t need to constantly advertise your operating system to you".
There's a separate blog post on hardware-specific improvements here: https://blog.elementary.io/hardware-improvements-coming-to-e...