Raspberry Pi's Desktop Environment Gets an — Optional — Modernization Upgrade with New Icon Dock
Raspberry Pi has announced a visual overhaul for its Raspberry Pi OS, a Debian-derived Linux distribution tailored to its eponymous single-board computers, introducing a few "modern features" — including support for an optional icon dock.
"What is currently known as the Raspberry Pi Desktop has been around for over a decade now – it started out as a mildly customized 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," Raspberry Pi's Simon Long explains of what people see when they fire up Raspberry Pi OS. "But one thing which has never changed is the overall feel of the desktop, which, with its taskbar, status icons and main menu launcher, is very reminiscent of the state of the art in desktop design from 30 years or so ago, with [Microsoft] Windows 95 and Apple System...
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