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GNOME 51 Released With Improved Frame Scheduling, Many App Improvements (www.phoronix.com)
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Right on schedule and in time for appearing in the likes of Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora Workstation 45, the GNOME 51 desktop is officially released.

GNOME 51 debuted today with many nice improvements to Mutter for bettering the desktop responsiveness and a smoother experience with improved frame scheduling.

There are also new Wayland protocols supported (such as ext-background-effect-v1) and other optimizations there, including removal of legacy NVIDIA driver support with EGLStreams. Mutter also now has support for custom pointer acceleration profiles.

GNOME 51 on Fedora 45

GNOME 51 also brings a number of settings improvements, offline map support for GNOME Maps, faster startup of GNOME Software, the GNOME Calendar is also faster now too, and the GNOME File Previewer has a complete UI revamp.

Many more details on all the interesting changes to find with the GNOME 51 desktop can be found via today's release notes on GNOME.org.

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[–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

What is Gnome File Previewer? Is it Sushi? Or something else?

I’m not running Gnome all the time, it’s installed at home, so I interact with it every day, but not much. For my personal devices I use Sway with some apps from Gnome, including the file manager and sushi too.

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    • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (3 children)

    Man, I can’t decide if I like more Gnome or Cosmic.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The last time I tried out cosmic it was still quite new and lacking a lot of the customisability of gnome + tweaks. That could have changed by now tho

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I’m on fedora at the moment so I’m a few months back but it still lacks some native apps and could really use some extensions system but I just love its feel, even though I miss Gnome’s consistent design and extensions.

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    [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Nice changes, I like it. I only use a handful of gnome applications, but I like their design. Might be an unpopular opinion.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I've always loved Gnome, even when it looked like Mate. I do feel like customization isn't perfect but I love the clean layout, snappy behavior and multi-desktop implementation. I worry that it won't be given the same love KDE gets, but I know the Gnome team works hard to make a solid DE. I might switch back to it this week. I've been using Labwc for awhile, but I do miss just using my desktop rather than editing the config files to get close to the same experience.

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