Today, Canonical has taken the first major step related to the release of the next stable version of its operating system. After several months of development, more or less when they have been five, the company led by Mark Shuttleworth gives the go-ahead by presenting us with the wallpaper for its next release, and this April's will be Ubuntu 23.04. The background that they have presented to us today resembles and ceases to resemble what we have been seeing in Ubuntu for years.
For at least five years, Ubuntu wallpapers have been purple with the animal drawn on top. Of these types of designs, one of the ones I liked the most was what they used in Disco Dingo (19.04), partly because you had to have imagination to be able to see the dog with the headphones on. Already in Hirsute Hippo, the animals were better drawn, and in kinetic kudu the lines were clearer. In Lunar Lobster you can see that something is changing, although at the same time an image is shown that we feel we know.
Ubuntu 23.04 Wallpaper
The background is the previous one. There is a constellation drawing the lobster, and then a triangle in another constellation and a star that walks around a bit lonely, I don't know if they have any meaning. On the upper right part, the silhouette of part of a moon can be guessed, and on the upper left and lower right edges are those parts that look like triangular shapes in relief. As for the colors, nothing new.
Ubuntu 23.04 will arrive with this and other wallpapers on April 20, 2023. Although many of us have come to think that it would use Linux 6.1, a conclusion we reached because they recently uploaded that version of the kernel in the Daily Build, everything seems to indicate that will eventually use Linux 6.2, accompanied by GNOME 44 as most notable news.
You can see this and the rest of the wallpapers at this link from the Ubuntu blog.
Haha they go too far with the first image 🤣