After months of development, the developers of user-friendly Linux distro elementary OS have achieveda major milestone. They’ve just releasedelementary OS 5 Juno, which is a considerable version name jump given the fact that last release was 0.4.
This jump to 5.0 doesn’t come out of anywhere. This release comes with a ton of updates and new improvements to make your daily Linux experience much better. So let’s tell you about them.
What’s new in elementary OS 5 Juno?
The developer team says that the update consists of basically two parts — the desktop part that basically covers all the look and feel of the elements and the user experience; the second part consists of the apps that are shipped with the operating system.
Starting with the desktop, there’s a newNight Lightfeature that comes with an option to set manual timers and let the app figure out when to reduce the blue the blue light output. Then there’s an option totile app windowsas per your convenience; it already existed in the OS, but Juno makes it smoother.
For those who love to watch tons of videos, thepicture-in-picture modehas been added to let you watch videos while working on something else. A new search icon has also been added to the Applications menu.
The other new and improved desktop features cover Screenshot tool, Shortcut Overlay, atranslucent light mode for wallpapers,new animationsto icons, full-color emojis, new set of sounds, revamped icons, official color palette, etc.
Let’s move on to the apps.
elementary’s AppCenter is the place where you may grab all the apps you need. It’s worth noting that every app out there in AppCenter is open source. Also, thepaid appsin the store are available on thepay-what-you-wantbasis.
elementary Code, the homegrown text editor, comes with new quick controls, dark mode, new style and font switcher, high contrast option, new EditorConfig plugin, new Git integration, and more.
Other major apps like Files, Music, Photos, Terminal, Camera, Epiphany browser, and others have also got new features and improvements. There are tons ofchanges to system settingsoption as well.
You can visit theofficial blog postfor an extensive list of all the new features.
Download the latest release from theofficial website. You can either choose to pay anything you want or go with $0 for free download.
