Ubuntu Budgie 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" comes with improvements to the environment, applets and more

Continuing with the launches of the official flavors of the new version of Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla"now it's the turn of one of the flavors that has gained more followers and popularity among the Linux community and especially Ubuntu lovers, since in this article we have to talk about the new released version of Ubuntu Budgie 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla".

This new edition of the distribution comes with quite interesting changes in relation to the desktop environment, since it continues with the initiative to continue with the compatibility with the latest versions of Gnome, in addition to receiving the main features of the main version (Ubuntu).

Main new features of Ubuntu Budgie 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla"

In this new version we can find that Budgie desktop has been updated to a new Git snippet, since the version is sent budgie-desktop v10.5.1.

With the implementation of this version of the environment, various bugs have been fixed such as failures to delete applets, problems with the icons in the system tray, problems with Spotify covers, with Chrome notifications, among other things.

In addition, changing the wallpaper now respects the animation flag, so if you disable animations, the changing of wallpapers occurs instantly

As for applets, we may find that a new option has been added to configure hotcorners via budgie-desktop-settings and thus hide the panel icon.

The application menu now supports touchscreens, keyboard navigation from search to categories has been improved and the search bar changes position to the bottom when in a lower pane.

Moreover Added Mojave theme with macOS style icons and interface elements. Added a new applet with a full screen interface to navigate through installed programs, which can be used as an alternative to the application menu.

The Shuffler, an interface to quickly navigate through open windows and group windows in a grid, command line controls have been added (CLI), plus a new ability to resize adjacent windows automatically.

Of the other changes that stand out:

• Added support for searching for GNOME preferences in menus and many distracting icons removed.
• Listed VPNs are now sorted alphabetically to make finding the correct VPN easier (also updated to 20.04)
• Brightness Controller Applet - Fixed so that the slider actually works. It should now work against a GNOME 3.36 base (also backtracked to 20.04)
• Welcome Skins: The global menu occasionally locks the panel when using cupertino / theone skins.
• Reworked vala applets to compile to user-defined system locations.
• New applet: full screen desktop applauncher named budgie-lightpad-applet
• Budgie-workspace-wallpaper-applet has been rewritten in Vala.
• All packages are now available in arm64. This means that you can now use desktopify and create an Ubuntu Budgie image from Raspi v4 file.
• Gedit text edit highlighting for current line is disabled. Dark themes are broken by gedit and often the text color is unreadable.
• New "Align to Grid" option when right-clicking on desktop: this switches to desktop grid mode.

Finally, for the part of the features received from Ubuntu, we can find the Linux kernel to 5.8, updated versions of Python, Ruby, Perl and PHP.

And what do I know? System components have been updated, such as PulseAudio, BlueZ and NetworkManagerIn addition, the transition to using the nftables tables of the default packet filter has been implemented.

Download Ubuntu Budgie 20.10

The image of this new version of the system is now available for download, but since many are currently downloading, I recommend you choose to download by torrent, since at the moment it must be much faster than the direct download.

To record the image on a USB device you can use Etcher, which is a multiplatform tool.