When creating new disk layouts, the installer will pick the biggest sector size a disk supports, and for people wanting to encrypt their disks with LUKS, the installer now uses LUKS2 with argon2 encryption and the same sector size as the disk. Previously, this would default to 512 on disks that supported the more optimal size of 4096. A new default kernel:laptop: Traditionally, Garuda Linux has shipped with linux-zen for many years, mostly due to being more stable than alternatives that were around during the time we chose it as our kernel of choice. This is going to change starting with this release - linux-garuda is the excellent Linux CachyOS many of us already used, ensured to always build against the NVIDIA drivers via DKMS before updating.
We are delighted to announce the release of FydeOS 23 'Chromatic Cadence'. This release upgrades the underlying Chromium OS platform from r144 to r150 and introduces a new Android subsystem framework, refreshed system apps, and enhanced remote desktop capabilities for enterprise devices. FydeOS 23 focuses on strengthening the foundations of the operating system. These changes provide a more robust base for future improvements to app compatibility, system maintenance, and enterprise device management. FydeOS 23 upgrades the Android subsystem across all editions to Android 13 and introduces fyDroid, a new implementation for supporting Android apps on FydeOS. We plan to make fyDroid fully open source. Going forward, we will continue to develop this framework, progressively update its Android version, and improve app compatibility, performance and security.
Put the dock on any edge of the screen: top, bottom, left or right; the bar steps aside when you give the dock the edge it was using; themes now carry which edge the dock sits on, along with everything else they remember; the flexible-space widget is retired — the bar packs its own sections now, and a layout you already saved moves across on its own; bar pop-ups open centered under the widget they belong to, wherever you have put it; a pop-up near the edge of the screen stays on screen instead of running off it; the media widget keeps its size and its pop-up in the right place outside the center; the timer keeps a steady width while it counts down, instead of nudging its neighbors; dividers stay inside the bar's rounded background; close the window rule editor from its own corner, and switch between rules without closing it....
This release presents the new versions 151.0.7922.108-1 of the web browser Google-Chrome-Stable and 255.4-1ubuntu8.17 of systemd. In addition, among other things, Starbuntu has anchored the freshly introduced 'Open With' list of adequare mime type specific applications in its desktop environment and, moreover, adjusted its documentation according to this new achievement.
Omarchy 4 aka 'Quattro' is the biggest release since the project started. The entire desktop shell has been reimagined in Quickshell - the bar, launcher, menus, notifications, on-screen displays, control panels, lock screen, and polkit agent now all live inside a single long-running shell process with a plugin architecture. That means Waybar, Walker, Mako, SwayOSD, hyprlock, hypridle, swaybg and polkit-gnome are all gone, replaced by one coherent, fully-themed, IPC-scriptable shell. Headline features: reimagine the entire desktop shell in Quickshell; move Omarchy internals from git to system packages for safely separating user modifications; offer dual-boot installation when free space is available; setup a machine for a new owner during install, so OEMs and gift givers can prepare a machine for others; allow for factory reset from new Quattro installs for safe resale/gifting of your machine; shrink the ISO image by over a gigabyte (now under 6GB); speed up installation by +30%; convert all Hyprland configurations to lua for full 0.56 compatibility....