As you all know, or should know if you are regular readers of Ubunlog, tomorrow the Xenial Xerus brand of Ubuntu and all its official flavors will be launched, which corresponds to the April 2016 edition or, in other words, Ubuntu 16.04. Both the standard version and all its flavors, such as Xubuntu, the distro that this post is about, will be LTS (Long Term Support) versions, which will ensure support for patches and updates for a minimum of 3 years offered by the last to reach the family of systems developed by Canonical, Ubuntu MATE.
As we get closer to hour 0 when the new versions will arrive, we are learning more details of the news that will arrive. If you are using any of the betas you will have noticed that updates arrive almost every hour and in those updates we see many of the news that will be in the final versions. The Wallpapers o wallpapers they hadn't been one of them until today, when they revealed the winners of the funding contest for Xubuntu 16.04 and the funds that the Xfce-environment version of Canonical systems will use.
Download the Xubuntu 16.04 LTS wallpapers
As you can see, there are a total of 16 wallpapers, all of them about nature. Among all the images you miss seeing one african ground squirrel (which is a Xenial Xerus) but, in any case, one of the images is a normal squirrel. If we consider that the Xubuntu logo includes the distinctive mouse of the Xfce environment, we might think that that squirrel is there on purpose, if it weren't for the fact that the rest of the images are also from nature. If you want the wallpapers in their real size, you can download them by clicking on the following image.
If you knew how to install only what you need with Arch Linux, you would have Gnome, the desktop that works without flickering, ultra-smooth with 3D video and animation, the comfort of having pavucontrol etc with the browser at full throttle, more gedit, more libreoffice, more Mame, in just 1,5 GB, after running all day. Anyway…
I suppose that then the problem is precisely that there are people who cannot reach many because there is knowing how to do it, it is not a very adequate way to reach much…. Anyway, Ubuntu will do more for being simpler.
The backgrounds are nice, although made from fewer photos of more vivid landscapes.