This is getting to be a regular complaint but the version of the FeatherPad text editor shipped was four versions out of date at the time Lubuntu 21.10 was released. Overall the default suite of applications represents a good selection for users to get started with.

This is notable because Ubuntu 21.10 moved to supplying Firefox as a Indicates the same version as used in Lubuntu 21.04. This has been the case since Lubuntu 13.10 when Firefox replaced Chromium as the default web browser. One thing that is not new is the inclusion of the. Some Linux distributions use ImageMagick for “back-end” purposes, like creating thumbnails for the file manager but there is no information in the Lubuntu 21.10 release notes, so the reasons for its inclusion are unclear. This may sound like a bit of a breakthrough, as Lubuntu has never shipped with a default raster image editor before, but, even though ImageMagick has a basic graphical interface, it is predominantly command-line based and so not for new users or the faint of heart. One new application has been added, ImageMagick, an image manipulation program. Perhaps the developers read my review and took it to heart? Fahim’s wallpaper is much easier to look at. This release also has some new art work, including a new wallpaper from Mahtamun Hoque Fahim.This is a great improvement over the default wallpaper shipped with Lubuntu 21.04 which I described in my review in Full Circle 170 as an “assault on the eyes”. This allows selecting images to be viewed directly, instead of having to “arrow” though them all to locate the one you want. There are some interface changes, though, for instance, LXimage-Qt, the default image viewer, now has a “Preferences” setting that shows a thumbnail bar with the contents of the whole folder displayed. LXQt 0.17.0 brings a host of improvements, most of them not necessarily obvious to the user.

Both have been upgraded since the last Lubuntu release. This release uses the LXQt 0.17.0 desktop, based on the Qt 5.15.2 toolkit. Lubuntu 21.10 continues the developers’ philosophy for this cycle of only small and careful changes. You can support the site directly via Paypal donations ☕. TNR earns Amazon affiliate commissions from qualifying purchases.

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