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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Default theme is called “Yaru.” Even upon first loading into Focal Fossa, the desktop gives off a much more modern and sleek vibe. This is mostly thanks to some color tweaks in the default theme and a darker wallpaper. The updated GNOME also allows you to choose between three different color themes: light, standard, or dark. Standard is the default, but the dark theme looks very nice: Changing window color theme on Focal Fossa2. No Amazon link on your desktopThe Amazon desktop launcher was part of Ubuntu releases for the last eight or so years but it’s not part of Focal Fossa, to which we say, “Good riddance.” Canonical has finally conceded to leave the built-in advertising behind and allow users to decide if they want a big Amazon icon on their desktop or not. Just look at the reviews for the Amazon launcher. It’s about time they remove it.3. ZFS supportUbuntu introduced native support of ZFS in the 2019 interim release of Eoan Ermine. In Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa, ZFS support has been further improved, though still flagged as being experimental. When installing Focal Fossa, you have the option to use ZFS if you click “advanced features” when asked about how you’d like to format your hard drive. ZFS support on Focal FossaThe newest version of Ubuntu features performance enhancements for ZFS and support for encryption. Ubuntu has a ZFS system tool called Zsys, which provides automated system and user state saving. It also integrates better with GRUB so a user can revert to an earlier system state before booting into the desktop.Acceptance of ZFS in the enterprise world is still shaky, but it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. Seeing support for it on a really popular distribution like Ubuntu is pretty neat.4. New wallpaperAs with every release of Ubuntu, Focal Fossa comes with new wallpaper. If you’ve not already noticed, there’s a theme to Ubuntu’s naming scheme and wallpaper designs. The second word in a release’s name is that of an animal, and the wallpaper is themed after that animal. A fossa is a cat-like mammal native
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