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Fedora - What’s new in Fedora 33 Workstation - xSicKxBot - 10-28-2020
What’s new in Fedora 33 Workstation
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/whats-new-in-fedora-33-workstation.png" width="800" height="600" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Fedora 33 Workstation is the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-33/" target="_blank">latest release</a> of our free, leading-edge operating system. You can download it from <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://getfedora.org/workstation" target="_blank">the official website here</a> right now. There are several new and noteworthy changes in Fedora 33 Workstation. Read more details below.</p>
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<h2>GNOME 3.38</h2>
<p>Fedora 33 Workstation includes the latest release of GNOME Desktop Environment for users of all types. GNOME 3.38 in Fedora 33 Workstation includes many updates and improvements, including:</p>
<h3>A new GNOME Tour app</h3>
<p>New users are now greeted by “a new <em>Tour</em> application, highlighting the main functionality of the desktop and providing first time users a nice welcome to GNOME.”</p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/whats-new-in-fedora-33-workstation.png" alt="" class="wp-image-32118" /><figcaption>The new GNOME Tour application in Fedora 33</figcaption></figure>
<h3>Drag to reorder apps</h3>
<p>GNOME 3.38 replaces the previously split Frequent and All apps views with a single customizable and consistent view that allows you to reorder apps and organize them into custom folders. Simply click and drag to move apps around.</p>
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/whats-new-in-fedora-33-workstation.gif" alt="" class="wp-image-32122" /><figcaption>GNOME 3.38 Drag to Reorder</figcaption></figure>
<h3>Improved screen recording</h3>
<p>The screen recording infrastructure in GNOME Shell has been improved to take advantage of PipeWire and kernel APIs. This will help reduce resource consumption and improve responsiveness.</p>
<p>GNOME 3.38 also provides many additional features and enhancements. Check out the <a href="https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.38/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">GNOME 3.38 Release Notes</a> for further information.</p>
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<h2>B-tree file system</h2>
<p>As <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://fedoramagazine.org/btrfs-coming-to-fedora-33/" target="_blank">announced previously</a>, new installations of Fedora 33 will default to using <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs" target="_blank">Btrfs</a>. Features and enhancements are added to Btrfs with each new kernel release. The <a href="https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Changelog#By_feature" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">change log</a> has a complete summary of the features that each new kernel version brings to Btrfs.</p>
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<h2>Swap on ZRAM</h2>
<p>Anaconda and Fedora IoT have been using swap-on-zram by default for years. With Fedora 33, swap-on-zram will be enabled by default instead of a swap partition. Check out <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/SwapOnZRAM" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the Fedora wiki page</a> for more details about swap-on-zram.</p>
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<h2>Nano by default</h2>
<p>Fresh Fedora 33 installations will set the EDITOR environment variable to <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UseNanoByDefault" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>nano</em> by default</a>. This change affects several command line tools that spawn a text editor when they require user input. With earlier releases, this environment variable default was unspecified, leaving it up to the individual application to pick a default editor. Typically, applications would use <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">vi</a></em> as their default editor due to it being a small application that is traditionally available on the base installation of most Unix/Linux operating systems. Since Fedora 33 includes nano in its base installation, and since nano is more intuitive for a beginning user to use, Fedora 33 will use nano by default. Users who want vi can, of course, override the value of the EDITOR variable in their own environment. See <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/UseNanoByDefault" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the Fedora change request</a> for more details.</p>
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