The free desktop Gnome 40, which first made its big appearance under Fedora Workstation 34, is followed by Gnome 41. The new Shell UX can already be tried out by everyone in the context of a public beta. While Gnome 40 only recently received a point release on version 40.4, Gnome 41 will follow soon.
Try Gnome 41
< p class = "p text-width"> After the first alpha of Gnome 41 started on July 10th and the closed beta was scheduled for August 14th, all users can now get an idea of the current status of the free desktop Make gnomes.
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Gnome 40 
Gnome 40 
Gnome 40 With the change from Gnome 3.36 (” Gresik ”) and Gnome 3.38 (“ Orbis ”) for Gnome 40 was accompanied by a complete“ redesign ”of the open source desktop environment for Linux, BSD, Unix and Unix-like systems. The new version 41 was presented to the general public for the first time at the GUADEC 2021 open source conference.
GTK4 applications are getting prettier
Among other things, the library Libadwaita based on GTK4, the should play a very important role in the definition of the visual language and the user experience (“UX”) and make GTK apps look better.
Overall, the free desktop should be a very get a consistent look and be even more intuitive to use, according to the developers.
The official roadmap provides the following milestones for Gnome 41 up to the release:
< figure class = "text-asset"> Date Gnome 41 Alpha July 10, 2021 Gnome 41 Closed Beta August 14, 2021 Gnome 41 Open Beta August 24, 2021 Gnome 41 Release Candidate September 4, 2021 Gnome 41 Release September 22, 2021
Both the Gnome 41 Beta Installer (ISO) and the source code can already be downloaded from the official website of the Project.