Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 LTS has already been released and these are its news

Continuing with the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS flavors releases, now it's time to talk about one that has gained a lot of popularity and many followers "Ubuntu Budgie" and in this new version of "Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 LTS" various changes are presented aimed at improving the system interface and its performance.

On the part of the features inherited from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, we can find the Linux kernel 5.4, Gnome 3.36 applications, LibreOffice 6.4, ZFS support newer with automatic AP rollback support, the basic composition includes Gnome firmware, among other things.

Main news of Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 LTS

With the release of this new version of Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 LTS, we can find that Budgie desktop environment has been updated to version 10.5.1 (corrective version of 10.5) in which Gnome 3.36 applications are supported, features performance enhancements for window magnification and more.

One change that can be noticed is that now an applet with the Stylish application menu is used by default and its own applet for managing network settings.

Besides that menu items are now sorted using local language rules and in window manager instant auto magnification of windows is performed when focus mode is set to mouse focus and 250ms on click, resulting in rapid magnification of the window.

Another important change in this new version is in the "Desktop layouts" in which a one-click method is now implemented to configure the desktop with the appearance of one of the available configurations: Traditional Budgie, Classic Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Budgie, Cupertino, The One, Redmond.

On the part of the system menu, some important changes were made, such as the context menu when clicking on applications and some actions are offered on the application icon.

Also highlighted is the integration of “Focal's Window Shuffler”, a completely rewritten and redesigned version of the Budgie's tiling add-on, which adds the following features:

  • Set window grid margins and padding
  • shuff1
  • preview
  • Shortcuts to snap windows to the closest tile
  • Shortcuts to resize windows in all directions
  • Hover over the GUI grid to set your shadow
  • Directed position preview when using GUI grid
  • shuff2
  • Shuffler: Preview
  • Animated window movement when shortcuts are used to move windows
  • Swap windows in case a window is moved to the position of an existing window
  • Shortcuts

Of the other changes that stand out of this new version of Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa, are:

  • Budgie-based network manager applet set as default
  • Window Shuffler reorganization in animations, improvements to make mosaic faster and keyboard-friendly
  • Budgie desktop support and 4K resolution Budgie applet support
  • GNOME Firmware and Drawing are new default applications
  • New wallpapers
  • Nemo-share and nemo-dropbox rebuilt packages and also skippy-xd
  • The latest versions of Pocillo and QogirBudgie
  • Welcome program enhancements
  • Font smoothing settings and hints were added.
  • By default, the applet with the system tray is disabled (due to problems during operation). The applets are adapted for HiDPI displays.
  • New option called "Number of virtual desktops", where you can go from having a single workspace to eight
  • CTRL + ALT + left / right swaps workspaces without a workspace indicator in the middle of the screen.
  • Event alert sounds are disabled by default

Download Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa

The image of this new version of the system is already available for download, but since many are currently downloading, I recommend you choose to download by torrent, since at this time it must be much faster than the direct download.

To record the image on a USB device you can use Etcher, which is a multiplatform tool.


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