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GNOME 42 has rolled out officially today with a bunch of new features, fixes and enhancements to make your Linux desktop experience even better.

One of the major new highlight features is the addition of a global dark UI style preference. You can use this to tell various applications to use a dark theme, if they support it. You can find it in the new Appearance panel in the Settings app.

There's also a renewed screenshot feature that allows both pictures and video recordings under the same roof. Many GNOME apps have also been upgraded to use GTK 4 and libadwaita, the next-generation tech bringing "better performance, a new modern UI style, and new user interface elements". The Settings app going through the biggest change here with a whole new look and feel. You will also find a new text editor, a new console app, RDP support and various performance improvements.

For gamers, they said that they've improved how "fullscreen apps are rendered will result in reduced energy consumption for video playback and increased frame rates for games".

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Plenty more, see the release notes.

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Whitewolfe80 Mar 24, 2022
Great for those that enjoy the gnome way for me it doesnt find my needs I find it very slow and bloated for my workflow. That said they are working on improvements so kudos
sobkas Mar 24, 2022
I love Gnome, and that everything can be themed witch css, I use my own theme witch green text on dark background. I even created one for gtk-4. It's so cool.
udekmp69 Mar 26, 2022
Having used GNOME 41 for my laptop with Fedora and I just recently switched my desktop to OpenSUSE TW with KDE. I like both a lot. They have their own quirks and when Fedora 36 is out of beta I might check it out and switch back.
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