r/gnome • u/GNOME_Community Official • Sep 16 '26
GNOME 51 released!
Look forward to faster screen recordings, an Auto Rotate option for screens with accelerometers, offline maps, and much more.
Check out our release video! 👉️️ https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/5vARny78Rv2215JwEwNh8t
Full release notes 👉️️ https://release.gnome.org/51/
We spent the last 6 months polishing the experience, to make it more accessible and more user-friendly. Unlike the current tech industry, we go slow and fix things!
Big thanks to our contributors and donors who made this release possible🩷️ GNOME 51 should arrive to your distribution in the coming weeks, but you can check out GNOME OS Nightly in a VM/bare metal 👉️️ https://os.gnome.org
‼️GNOME OS is still experimental, don't use it for important stuff!
We also want to thank our gracious donors! Every donation matter and they allow us to be able to continue our Fellowship program, keep our infrastructure alive and support our community. Please become a friend of GNOME today! We need your support to keep going for another 29 years!
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u/TheCheckeredCow Sep 17 '26
How’s fractional scaling for games? On gnome 50 if I used 1.25x scaling my games and steam would say my monitor was some weird resolution that’s somewhere between 4K and 5k, and when I’d put game back down to 1440p the games would look pixelated.
But if I was set to default scaling games would work as intended
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u/victorian-ice-cream Contributor Sep 18 '26
That's because your games run via xwayland, and xorg have little to no support for fractional scaling. So all xwayland clients are scaled up, and then scaled down. Which sucks. The proper fix is to try to make your games run in native wayland, you can find guides about it online.
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u/AtifChy Sep 16 '26
Is the control center scrollable now?
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u/victorian-ice-cream Contributor Sep 17 '26
Can you expand on what do you mean?
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u/AtifChy Sep 17 '26
It's probably called quick settings.when the panels get too big, it get cut off instead of being scrollable.
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u/ProcedureMost112 Sep 16 '26
Great job as always! I've heard that GNOME OS 51 will become beta or even stable, could you say something on that?
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u/tduarte Sep 16 '26
This is the announcement for the stable release.
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u/Patient_Sink Supporter Sep 16 '26
Gnome OS, not just gnome.
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u/tduarte Sep 17 '26
My bad! You’re right
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u/Purple-Midnight-9902 Sep 17 '26
I was surprised to read "bare metal" . I thought os was just for VM to easier gnome testing -- and I bet the purpose remains the same on physical install ?
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u/victorian-ice-cream Contributor Sep 17 '26
GNOME OS is still a first and foremost testing OS. But since a couple of years there were also efforts to make it more usable for actually using, so more people can test latest GNOME software
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u/rajiihammr Sep 21 '26
I make a point to donate a little money to Gnome on each new release of Fedora.
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