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Raspberry Pi 'Modernises' Its Desktop Operating System
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Neowin ☛ Raspberry Pi adds modern features to desktop OS
Users can download the new image or run a full system upgrade to access the new application launcher and dock via the Control Center.
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Raspberry Pi ☛ An updated look for the Raspberry Pi Desktop
What is currently known as the Raspberry Pi Desktop has been around for over a decade now – it started out as a mildly customised version of the stock LXDE desktop, and over the years has slowly evolved into something with almost entirely different underpinnings, based on Wayland and labwc. The look has been refreshed on several occasions, with new icons, themes and desktop backgrounds, to the point where there is very little visually in common between today’s Raspberry Pi Desktop and the original LXDE.
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Paul Thurrott ☛ Raspberry Pi Modernizes Its Desktop OS
The Raspberry Pi Desktop is a Linux-based environment for the organization’s board-based mini computers, and it hasn’t changed a lot from a user experience perspective since it first launched over a decade ago. But that just changed, and unlike the previous UX refreshes, this one significantly modernizes the overall look and feel of the system.