Regolith Linux 1.4 is the latest version of one of the many Ubuntu derivatives that exist in the GNU/Linux spectrum. Its main feature is the use of Regolith, "a modern desktop environment designed to allow you to work faster by reducing unnecessary clutter."
Regolith Linux is "built on Ubuntu, GNOME, and i3" and from what can be seen on its official website it tries to offer a more ordered working environment than what is usually found in GNU/Linux, taking advantage of the manager's capabilities. of windows i3. Version 1.4 of this distribution, which is based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, uses by default a theme called Lascille along with the JetBrains Mono font and the Ayu color scheme. The system has the following main characteristics according to those in charge of the project:
- It offers a desktop with a functional but minimal user interface that can be customized and expanded as needed.
- It combines the GNOME system management functions with the productive workflow of i3-wm.
- Enable new users with a quick and fun way to test a mosaic window manager.
- Allows easy customization through consistent Xresource configuration.
- It relies on the Ubuntu app store and its package repositories for a large selection of high-quality software (so it benefits from all the third-party support available for the Canonical system).
- Allows you to easily change the user interface components of your choice.
- It is supplied with an alternation overlay of basic key combinations to facilitate the start of its use.
- Provides a compilation script and package metadata to allow users to easily fork the desktop environment and distribution.
To be able to make this mixture of GNOME and i3, it uses some components such as "gtk3-nocsd", which allows the GNOME terminal application to be converted to the default Regolith graphic console. Its correct use depends a lot on keyboard shortcuts, and this is where the Remontoire application comes in to help the user in the learning task.
The Regolith Linux 1.4 installation image is based on Xubuntu and some components used by the Canonical system have been changed, such as GDM for LightDM. This, along with the smaller size of the Regolith desktop environment, "allows for less resource consumption at runtime and considerably smaller download size."
As we have already said, Regolith is a complete desktop environment (or at least it tries to be), so it can be obtained not only through the distribution in question, but also through a PPA that can be configured in different versions of Ubuntu.
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