GNOME 51 has been released, with a whole slew of new features and improvements. Most notably, at least in my experience, will be the work done on GNOME’s graphics stack, which seems to stutter and jitter more than KDE’s on the same hardware – at least in my experience. In particular, GNOME’s compositor, Mutter, has improved frame scheduling for smoother animations, even under load. This hopefully addresses the stutters I generally experience when using GNOME.
They’ve also done a lot of work on the Settings, Maps, Calendar, Web, and other applications. Of note to many will be the array of improvements to GNOME’s file manager, including better performance, although I doubt it will convince those of us who aren’t particular fans of Nautilus in general. They’ve also improved the remote desktop experience by, among other things, adding support for smart cards and improving support for Kerberos.
GNOME 51 will make its way to your distribution of choice soon enough.
During Microsoft’s UWP phase, IBM CUA standards for cut (Shift+Del), copy (Ctrl+Ins) and paste (Shift+Ins) were absent or intentionaly removed. Only Control+C,V,X was working.
With keyboard changing shapes, they might not care much about this older compliance (the F10 key) anymore.