GNOME 46.1 Desktop Environment Released with Explicit Sync Support
GNOME 46.1 Desktop Environment Released with Explicit Sync Support
GNOME 46.1 is now available as the first point release to the latest GNOME 46 desktop environment series introducing explicit sync support.
Lots of nice little tweaks, but nothing major unless the lack of explicit sync was causing issues for you
But then again I guess that's the point of a point release.
I'm very much looking forward to 47/48, where the bulk of the Sovereign Tech Fund's contributions will come to fruition. It'll also happen to line up nicely with Fedora moving to DNF5 and away from their current god-awful installer.
Late 2024 and early 2025 will be a good time. And not just for Gnome either, much of the accessibility stack Gnome is working on is cross-desktop, and we'll all benefit from it. Linux is about to get a whole lot better for people with accessibility requirements.
Moving to dnf5
Just a heads up: if you're used to something superfast like pacman or xbps, even dnf5 can't compare to them, at least in my experience. Still miles ahead of regular dnf, and I'd even recommend dnf5 for OpenSUSE users too.
Much of the accessibility stack GNOME is working on is cross-desktop
I didn't know that. This is wonderful news!!!
It is excellent to see explicit sync. It is now is GNOME, KDE, XWayland, and Mesa. We just need the NVIDIA driver that supports it and that is coming soon I believe.
Most users will not see this until the fall distribution releases unfortunately. Rolling releases will be proving it all out soon though so it should be in good shape for the masses by year end.
Having these basic Wayland issues addressed and equalizing the experience between NVIDIA and other GPU hardware is a big win for everybody.
they already support it. They are testing it before it gets released in their next release 555 (around July)
Bugger. Was hoping it was a sync upgrade for cloud storage providers.
Why the downvotes? This guy wanted something else. What's wrong with that? In fact, I believe it opens up room for healthy discussion.
Thanks for caring @warmaster.
I don't mind the downvotes - it's part of life and I did kinda go off on a tangent which some people wouldn't have appreciated.
Still, the lack of a proper Google Drive (in my case) sync feature that has offline support is an impediment to migrating away from Windows. I'm a little puzzled as to why Google doesn't support it, yet they do a Mac version which is sort-of Linux. Maybe because there's so many Linux implementations?
you can always look at the current state of this problem and maybe do a donation so it gets implemented faster.
gnome is unequivocally the best de in linux. I don't understand how people use laggy and crashing KDE
Kde works fine on my machine 🤷
Screen is often blurry at 150%. Too small at 100%, too big at 200%. Waiting for next release which is supposed to improve fractional scaling.