I’m insulted. 
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I’m looking forward to the release. I am so used to Gnome workflow that on my work laptop Win10, everyday I accidentally press win key hoping for exposure to come up and my brain goes this isn’t gnome you silly.
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Between the absolute lack of any discernable workflow, coupled with unintuitive, and even worse, shortcuts which you can’t customize. . . Windows is such a waste of time for me. It’s horrible, I’m so glad I only need to use it for super basic things at work usually. I’d go completely mad if I had to use it for actual work.
Gnome is great these days. I don’t even mind the lack of customization since it fits my personal workflow so well.
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Agreed. Windows 10 has been super buggy lately for me. Takes super long to boot and I haven’t even installed anything in terms of applications besides windows updates.
I think I’m going to flash W10 to my test laptop and see if I can figure out how to get Debian on WSL2 working to set it up on my work computer.
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it’s all looking like a solid update that provides a nice new base for future updates… just got to wait for apps to be ported to GTK4
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someone already flagged those two packages out of date already as well:
https://archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/gnome/
No idea though if Arch will push it or wait till Gnome 42 (or 42.1 point release) is actually released in full.
it was definitely a point release last time, I think it’s just one dude that does the gnome packaging comes down to what time he has.
I don’t think there’s been a .0 release on Arch for a hot minute
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I’m totally fine with that. Always gives some of the extension devs a lil bit of more time to update their extensions and also the point releases have always fixed a good amount of bugs that got missed during the initial release. Going from Gnome 40 to Gnome 41.1 on Arch was the first time I didn’t have any issues or anything break (all extensions even worked), it was the smoothest update I’ve ever had. Fingers crossed I can have a similar experience with Gnome 42. Looks like the Gnome 42.1 point release comes out April 23’rd, a month after the initial release, so we’ve got some time before then!
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Same, as much as I like new stuff… it took me all of a couple of minutes to spin up a VM the other day to see what the go is and that was enough to scratch that itch
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I’m also using Nvidia, so I’ve got optimus-manager and gdm-prime and libgdm-prime installed, which sometimes need to be updated before a new Gnome release, but not always the case. Once it hits Arch in most likely end of April, I’ll probably wait 2-3 days for any last minute fixes/tweaks and then I’ll give the update a go and if need be, I’ll definitely report about it here for others to know.
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That’s a nice first impression on gnome 42rc
I am just wondering about the new screen cast feature in screenshots, that’s pretty neat, does it also record audio and how to set the volume adequately…I assume system mic input.
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Happy release day gnome users… now for the wait
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Isn’t the waiting what Gnome is all about?
No, I didn’t mean it… 
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It’s released today but I’m not sure you’ll be getting it in the downloads as an update for a bit. 
Awesome …i will try it then.
Edit: having trouble getting it to load on vmware but, Im installing it on v-box right now.
Edit2: Installed it and still say’s 41.3. Say’s it’s up todate. Won’t size properly in vm just frustrates me. Can’t get the ISO to load on vmware either.
Edit3: At least with the EOS version it works 100 tiime better!
Tumbleweed got it as well
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