Review: GNOME 44 is a Great Release (Mostly)

GNOME 44, the latest release of the popular desktop environment for Linux, was released recently. As always, Learn Linux TV has a full review so you can check out all of its new features. It's a great release, although one feature in particular completely missed its mark.

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*⏰ TIME CODES*
00:00 - Intro
00:55 - A few notes and some info on my test PC
02:14 - GNOME's file manager has a "tree view" (again)
04:04 - The "Quick Settings" menu has been improved in GNOME 44
04:55 - The new "Background Applications" feature of the "Quick Settings" menu
06:54 - Improvements within GNOME's System Settings in GNOME 44
09:55 - GNOME Software is more responsive in GNOME 44
12:00 - GNOME 44 is very responsive and runs great
12:49 - Is GNOME a "bloated" desktop environment?
14:05 - The GNOME desktop has a great dark mode option
15:03 - Unfortunately, GNOME 44's "Background Applications" has some huge flaws
18:41 - GNOME's "Device Security" panel gives users a false sense of security/insecurity

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[bleack]

20:00 is it even gnome's job to check if your password is secure though? At face value I just think that the screen is there to give you a log of security related events.

[АлексейШилин-дф]

The Device Security page cannot warn you about insecure password. The whole idea of /etc/shadow is that passwords stored there are hashed, i.e. one just cannot recover them without some sort of brute force attack. As the result, that page simply has no access to your password.
The only thing that can give you such warning is the Change Password window itself because it naturally has access to the password you type into it. And guess what — it already does!

[Crackalacking_Z]

The ram usage depends a lot on the overall system setup, the DE is just part of that big picture, my GNOME laptop sits at 1GB after cold boot

[ArniesTech]

Beautiful. GNOME has really grown on me and became my favourite go to DE 💪🙏

[seanpaul]

Gnome needs to bring back proper tray icons. This is such useful feature. I can’t understand why this isn’t offered. For example, I use Dropbox and there are various settings only accessible through tray icon. How am I to access that? Sometimes I think gnome focus more on form over function

[bertnijhof]

Gnome 44 and Linux 6.2 are part of the development edition of Ubuntu 23.04.

[shaunpatrick]

If I want to see which background apps are running I'll open System Monitor.

System Tray icons would be better in the notifications panel for several reasons, not the least of which is that it can be opened with a keyboard shortcut, or accessed with a single click. We already have a weather widget and world time widget available there, and MPRIS controls go there, so users have been trained to open it to look for "news" and to control certain applications. If I want to see if my cloud storage has finished syncing, the best place to look for that icon is in the notifications panel. Having an overflow to place important icons next to the clock would make it even better.

[Romek_S]

This "background apps" is really disappointing. I hope dev team is aware of this and they will add extra functions to app in nearest patches. Or, maybe, some sort of extension? But overall Im using beta version of Fedora 38 with new gnome and I like it.

[bitonchen]

i Really love your take on linux news. im now learning ansible with your guide. i know its not updated BUT your pace in intreducing the information is very relaxing and informative

[yaroslav]

Thank you for reviewing my favorite desktop environment! Meticulously as ever! Still GNOME is awesome, the best we can have and in my opinion it delivers better workflow than Windows and MacOS both do.

[jairunet]

Thank you for all your proof of work Jay, I am learning so much from you I really appreciate it, keep up the great work, and until the next video update about Linux, Cloud, Networking, K8s 🙏

[chrisseoc]

I really respect that you use real machines for your reviews. I realised quite early on that performance of virtual machines would not produce realistic results for actual application which renders many reviews academic. There's nothing like falling in love with a distro only to realise it won't run on your real pc.

[Hunter]

I would be really nice if this triple buffering patch would make its way in this release, but I guess we have to wait a little more (of course outside of Ubuntu).

[davidwayne]

I have ONE eye now- and the "good" eye has a special lens that lets me see clearly at any distance- but it also causes LIGHT LOSS-- so I need DARK mode to keep from bothering my vision now... looks GREAT.

[ivanavdeyev]

it would be cool if in the background applications menu you could open the context menu like in the tray, but in gnome style list

[notjustforhackers]

You're not wrong about that alert sound J.... it is NASTY, first thing I turn off too. Meh, background apps will be more useful in the future I reckon, baby steps. Regardless GNOME really is very good these days, I like where they're heading with it.

[piRaufasertapete]

Cannot wait to try fractioncal scaling. I currently have to use some extension for decent UI size on a tablet, but the font rendering is not in a higher res then

[samuelitooooo]

It's strange that System Monitor is not a GTK4 app yet. At least Web is now, which is good.

Can't wait for GNOME 44. Thumbnails also make a comeback in the file picker.

Thank you for addressing RAM. Its only a critical problem if you don't have much of it, like 2 GB or less. I wish more people reviewed CPU usage. Pretty sure CPU is the bigger reason I can't do video editing on a decade-old laptop with 8 GB RAM.

[Jopekos]

Really Awesome intro! 👏 Good to see more features that the community has been asking for for a long time being implemented in Gnome.🚀

[TomSmith-srbr]

@ 3:50 why have a triangle if the folder is empty, face palm.
@ 4:45 would be nice to have a button to turn off blue tooth right there and for WiFi