 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel today. I'm going to be taking a first look at GNOME 40 now GNOME 40 is the first GNOME release in a long time that I've actually been excited about mainly because it's a little new GNOME 3.X ish has all looked basically the same for the last. Oh, I don't know when whenever GNOME 3 came out You know, it's looked this basically the same. This is the first time that it's actually been Really refreshed to look at least a little bit different So I'm gonna take a look at it. We'll see how well, you know, it performs and stuff now I should say that this is taking place in a virtual machine Using GNOME boxes, which I'm not familiar with and it's beta software So we can expect there to be bugs, but we're getting pretty close to the release date. I think So it probably not gonna be that buggy But if we see anything we don't want to judge it too harsh because like I said, it's beta software So let's go ahead and jump in shall we? All right, so this is GNOME OS and Specifically, it's GNOME OS nightly and I have started this up before so I actually had to go through and search for the tour thing but I Just thought we'd go ahead and go through in the tour because there is a new tour Thing for GNOME 40. So we'll just go ahead and start it shall we so we'll get a good overview Make your apps your own. This is the most worthless tour I've ever seen in my life. This isn't actually Doing anything for the tour. This is just it's a slide show Weird I don't have a touchpad. All right Left right workspaces. All right. Well, this is dumb. How do I close this? You can't close it Okay, that's how you close it. All right. Well, we'll just do this the old-fashioned way so Traditionally in GNOME you press the super key you get something cool. So this is the new activities workspace and Before when you press the super key, you'd get your menu over here and you get your workspaces over here But now we've changed to this more vertical view. This is somewhat similar to what elementary OS does but really you don't get into the Similarities there until you press the show applications button and you'll actually see your workspaces up here And one of the cool things that I found is you can actually go through and drag these icons to open up apps If you wanted to so let's just say you had You wanted to drag your system monitor to your second workspace. You could do that Weirdly it changes that workspace to workspace one instead of the second workspace. So if I moved I don't know The terminal to the second workspace. It's still go to the first workspace, which is again very weird I'm assuming that's a bug, but we'll see Now in terms of resources, I think what I'm going to do actually do is See if H top is installed Because well, I'm not gonna judge this if it takes a lot of resources because this is like I said beta software. I Would like to at least, you know know If it's taking a ton more resources than before Fortunately H top is not installed. So Let's see if top is installed top is here. Okay, so we have 285 tasks and we're using I Don't understand why it says 16 gigabytes here. Oh, it's that's the percentage, right? So it's using 16% of the seven gigabytes that I gave it which is Honestly top is terrible. There's no reason why you use top each top is so much better. Anyways We can actually just do this Cancel look at this Clear and do free dash M So it's using a little bit over a gigabyte of space now like I've used a couple programs here So I've opened up the tour application and I've opened up the System monitor so it's possible that those things have Created a whole bunch of extra processes in the background and that's reason why it's so much more But that's a little bit higher than what I'd expect for you know, but not honestly not too much higher I was gonna remember that this is GNOME OS. So this isn't based on Ubuntu or anything. This is Actually, I'm not sure what GNOME OS is based on I wouldn't be surprised if it's fedora though, but it doesn't really matter so This is the newest thing here and we should also talk a little bit about Some of the application so along with the New layout here a lot of the GNOME apps have actually been updated as well So we can actually go through and see some of this stuff here. So apparently we should notice rounded corners up That's the wrong one So if we open up a I don't know files here something where's the house for the files Wait a minute It's probably in a folder. Okay, so interestingly enough if you're That can't be true, right? If you the icon is saved to favorites, it's no longer in the list of applications That that's new, right? That's not something that was there before. So if I move this down to the dock Yeah, it's no it goes away from the list of applications Okay, interesting. So let's go ahead and open up weather. Yeah, we can see rounded corners So we will not notice rounded corners again I'm 40 including on the workspace switcher, which is going to be this here. These are all rounded corners, obviously that's an interesting design and design choice other Visual tweaks include larger scroll bars. So I don't know if we'll be able to see that somewhere Maybe if we change to list view and Make this really small. I don't see the bigger scroll bars So we also have a couple of icons which is software and web. So this the software store has a new icon Additionally enough the web store is not actually working gonna OS But again, I'm assuming that's a beta a beta problem the other one that has a new icon is gonna web which is a Browser that hardly anybody uses. I don't think I'm not If we look at the about web here, this is the Version 40 beta. I don't know anybody who actually uses good on web If you use gonna web, leave a comment below. I'd like to talk to you because I want to know why Or what what's good about it? Maybe there's something good about it. I just don't know so as we saw in the tour there if you if you have a Trackpad you can use gestures in order to navigate between workspaces and the multitasking view. I have a mouse. So that's not something that I can actually try out So a three finger swipe left or right moves between workspaces while a three finger push up enters the overview Which is going to be this one here this here And if you keep pushing extends so if you keep pushing with the three fingers, you'll get into the app drawer here You can also do super alt and up in order to see that so if we do Super alt up That gives us to the overview mode and then again to open the app launcher, okay? I don't know why it needs to be three key presses. That's really weird But okay. All right, so Nautilus has also been updated So You can sort files by creation date, which is apparently something you couldn't do before Really you can support you can sort by creation date before weird More accurate file transfer and copied estimates so when you copy files between two folders it will Show you how long it has before it's done transferring and that's supposedly more accurate When trying to copy or move a file someplace with an existing file of the same name You now get an option to rename the file being moved. So that's cool And there's also been an overhaul of the preferences panel So you can actually search for Specific settings. I don't see that ability to actually search for something though. So omg Ubuntu is lying to me Okay, so if we go to a picture here I don't actually have any pictures But supposedly if you have a picture here and you can right click on it to set it as wallpaper You'll get a preview and There's also an option now to right click on it at binary and choose run as program So you don't actually have to go through and change the program's permissions to make it executable. That's also cool All right, so the another one that has been Updated is weather so we'll go ahead and type in a A city here and Let's see gunam's weather tool has one of the best weather apps for Linux according to omg Ubuntu I've never actually used it. So I don't I don't know if that's true or not And it's Joey. You're very your language is very flowery here Supposedly the app has been totally revamped for gunam 40 with striking new design that relays more forecast information Think more clearly clearly than before the hourly forecast and the general forecast So we could do hourly and daily here, which is cool. As you can see, it's actually really nice outside right now for being March It's a weather app. What do you want for me? Apparently this is different before but I've never used gunam weather before so I have no clue of telling you whether or not That's actually different than it was before so Maps has also been Changed with a refreshing appearance with place bubbles So if we go into maps here, I don't know how well this will work on a virtual machine, but we'll actually go through and Zoom in here. Whoa. Whoa I zoomed in really fast. I'm gonna go to the capital city My home state supposedly if you find a place here, you can click on it But maybe that only works for cities Apparently not for every city fish in omg Ubuntu. They so chose Seattle Apparently this is also been revamped to work well in mobile. So that's cool gunam web Also known as epiphany. They rebuilt the tab bar. I Don't know So first control T do we get another tab? Yeah, so this kind of looks like it fits more in style with the rest of Gunam 40 here So there's also new features like unread indicators proper pin tabs so we could actually go through and pin this tab which is Really cool. That's something you can do in Firefox and Chrome and all those other ones. So that's neat that they brought that feature over Working drag and drop and more finally a note for fans of Google auto suggests web can be configured to display search Suggestions as you type. This is not enabled by default okay, so Looks like it's actually is enabled by default preferences Duck duck go by default which is probably something that's always been there So you get some mouse gestures switch immediately to new tab global auto spelling Spell checking which is cool. Okay. I don't see the whole auto suggest thing I'm probably just missing it color scheme. Oh, there's a dark theme. Nice Anyways, I built an ad blocker, which is also nice. Maybe maybe gunam web is not as horrible as I was expecting it to be That's cool From what I saw the software center was actually not working for me I'm not exactly sure why again, probably a beta problem So we can't actually go through and see that but some there's a new featured app carousel That's about like software There's also a version history so you can go through and see previous versions of software But again, I can't show you that because that's not working why it's not working again I'm assuming it's just because this is a beta Let's go ahead and look at the settings. Shall we? There's probably some new stuff here in the settings. Settings is right here. The Wi-Fi section has been revamped Which I'm not actually going to see anything here about Wi-Fi I don't think because oh right here because they don't actually have Wi-Fi on this system, you know enabled plus it's a virtual machine so An overall of an overhaul of the keyboard shortcut settings. So keyboard Was down here and then keyboard shortcuts Okay, this does look significantly different than what I remember being so It's more organized for one. That's kind of cool You can also reset all which is good And apparently there's a refreshed about page. This looks exactly the same as it did before but I'm assuming there's subtle differences So that is basically going on 40. I Was more happy about this before I looked at it. I Thought that the changes would be a little bit more. I Don't know. I'm not gonna go through and say exciting but more. I don't make it feel like it Was really different. It just felt like numb to me just with the dock in a different position Now maybe the feeling would be a little bit better if I had like a track pad and was able to use those gestures Because then you feel like you're moving around fluidly in the operating system or through the desktop environment but For the most part it just felt like you know now. I think that's probably what they were going for because most If you ask around and she'll know that you know, I'm users are the people who hate change the most in Linux. They Really truly hate change and they showed this by creating the motto desktop They wanted you know, I'm too to stay the same so badly. They created their own. They forked it So it's the same thing with you know, I'm three fans. They don't like change at all. So I'm assuming that the reason why they've gone through and made this feel basically like you know, I'm Is because they wanted it to so For those users, that's great for me who was hoping for something radically different. I'm a little disappointed. I have to say but It's nice that it's a little it's a little fresh coat of paint. It's a little different and that's good I'll probably use this again on Fedora 34 when it comes out, you know, stably and Maybe that will take a little, you know Will make me like it a little bit more but for now I'm quite happy that I don't use you know, that's just I mean, I'm always happy that I don't use you know Plasma's where it's at. Anyways, thanks for watching You can follow us on Twitter at the Linux cast Facebook at the Linux cast You can also support us on patreon at patreon.com Slash Linux cast and with that in mind, I would like to take a moment to thank our current patrons Devon Zach Marcus American camp. Thanks for your support. Thanks everybody for watching. I'll see you next time