v1.4 Public Release

GlouOS 1.4

Added

• Show hidden files in the File Explorer. Press Ctrl+H (or View > Show
  hidden files) to reveal folders that start with a dot - like .local, .steam
  and .wine. This is what you need to reach Proton/Wine game data: mod folders,
  saves and prefixes all live inside hidden directories, so before this they
  looked empty or unreachable. The setting is remembered.

• Drag a selection box. Click and drag on empty space in the File
  Explorer to rubber-band select files, the way every file manager should -
  dragging a file still moves it.

• "Always use this app". The Open with picker is now a proper dialog with
  suggested apps, other apps, and an Always use this app to open these files
  checkbox - tick it and that file type opens with your choice from then on.
  The current default is marked in the quick Open with menu.

• A proper progress window. Copying, compressing and extracting now open
  their own window with a big progress bar instead of a small bar tucked in
  the corner that vanished when you clicked away - and you can cancel a job
  from it (a cancelled zip cleans up after itself).

Fixed

• The odd gap next to the tab bar is gone when only one tab is open.

v1.3 Public Release

GlouOS 1.3

Update notes generated based off of code commits - these are much more accurate than human generated ones

Added

• A much bigger app library. The Package Manager gained whole new
  categories - Emulators (RetroArch, Dolphin, PCSX2, RPCS3) and Streaming &
  Remote Play (Moonlight, Sunshine, Parsec, Chiaki) - plus many more games and
  tools: Prism Launcher, itch.io, osu!, Cartridges, ProtonPlus, Steam Tinker
  Launch, Signal, Telegram, Mumble, qBittorrent, Brave, GIMP, Krita, Blender,
  HandBrake, AntiMicroX and Piper.
• Type a path in the File Explorer. Press Ctrl+L (or click the empty part
  of the address bar) to turn the breadcrumbs into a box you can type or paste
  a folder path into - ~ shortcuts work too - just like Windows Explorer.
• Friendlier screenshots. Print now snips a region straight to your
  clipboard, Shift+Print copies the whole screen, and Meta+Shift+S grabs a
  region to save - no menus, ready to paste.
• Windows programs just run. Double-click a .exe or .msi and it opens
  through the built-in compatibility layer - GlouOS now sets Wine up quietly
  in the background at first login, so that first double-click is instant
  instead of pausing for setup.

Fixed

• The "drivers incomplete" warning stopped crying wolf. It used to warn
  (and tell you to open a terminal) based on a stale flag, even when the
  drivers were actually fine or you were already online - a reviewer hit
  exactly that. It now re-checks what is really missing, clears itself when
  everything is present, and offers a one-click finish when you're online.
• Updating from Settings no longer gets stuck. The graphical updater could
  freeze on a hidden "proceed? [y/n]" question it gave you no way to answer.
  It now runs fully unattended - any prompt in the chain proceeds on its own -
  and a GlouOS update can't be blocked by a stray leftover file either.

v1.2 Public Release

GlouOS 1.2

Added

• Cooling boost in the Game Center for builds that run extra hot (thanks: Baztard)
• A branded GlouOS boot menu that follows your light/dark theme (thanks: pastelvoid)

Changed

• The Welcome Center now follows your light/dark theme (thanks: pastelvoid)

Fixed

• USB drives finally show up (thanks: Batcar123)
• The keyboard layout you pick during install is now the one you get (thanks: Batcar123)

v1.1 Public Release

GlouOS 1.1

Added

• CurseForge in the Package Manager. The Minecraft modpack manager is
  now one tick away, in Games - GlouOS fetches the official Linux app,
  wires it into the start menu and keeps it launchable like any other app.
  (Under the hood this adds AppImage support to the Package Manager, so
  more AppImage-only apps can join the catalog easily.)

Changed

• The Game Center now teaches Steam some manners. Two new out-of-the-box
  tips: how to skip the endless "Processing Vulkan shaders" wait (on AMD
  GPUs the driver compiles shaders on the fly, so Steam's pre-caching step
  is pure waiting), and how to enable "Steam Play for all titles" so
  Windows-only games stop showing as unsupported.
• Boots about 10 seconds faster. On installs without disk encryption,
  the early-boot environment no longer waits for every USB peripheral
  (mice, dongles, wireless headsets) to wake up before handing over to the
  system - your disk is ready in ~3 seconds and now the boot is too.
• Hugepages tuned for gaming. Transparent hugepages now run in
  "always" mode with deferred defrag - a few extra percent in CPU-bound
  games and a lot in emulators.
• The file indexer stops chewing your disk. Baloo now indexes file
  names only (search still works) and skips Steam libraries, Wine prefixes
  and the Recycle Bin - no more mystery background I/O grinding away at a
  million files while you play.

Fixed

• Upload dialogs show your files again. Websites that filter uploads by
  type (profile pictures, attachments) sent file patterns that accidentally
  filtered out the folders themselves - leaving the picker completely
  empty. Folders are now always browsable; only files are filtered.
• Taskbar pins now sync between monitors instantly. The sync watched
  Plasma's config file, but Plasma holds fresh pins in memory for minutes
  before writing them out - so changes never seemed to propagate. It now
  reads the live state and mirrors pins and re-ordering within seconds.
• Repo-lag breakage is now caught automatically. When a big library
  update lands before app rebuilds reach the optimized (ALHP) mirror, the
  affected apps fail to start with a cryptic library error. The Game Center
  now scans for exactly this, names the broken apps, and offers a one-click
  "Reinstall from Arch repos" repair.

v1.0 Public Release

GlouOS 1.0

GlouOS graduates to 1.0 - the biggest release yet.

Added

• Tabs in the File Explorer. Ctrl+T opens a tab, Ctrl+W closes it,
  Ctrl+Tab cycles, middle-click any folder to open it in a new tab, and
  every tab keeps its own back/forward history. Drag tabs to reorder.
• Thumbnails. Pictures finally look like pictures - images render live
  thumbnail previews in both icon and details view, generated in the
  background so browsing huge folders stays instant.
• A proper conflict dialog. Pasting over existing files now asks
  Replace / Skip / Keep both, Windows style. Replace even sends the old
  file to the Recycle Bin instead of destroying it.
• Batch rename. Select a pile of files, press F2, type "Holiday" - get
  Holiday, Holiday (2), Holiday (3)... and Ctrl+Z puts every name back.
• Selection size at a glance. The status bar shows the combined size of
  whatever you've selected.
• Task Manager, levelled up. Every process now shows its app icon, a
  search-as-you-type filter finds the misbehaving app instantly, and
  right-click gains Efficiency mode - down-prioritises a hog's CPU and
  disk access, marked with a leaf, exactly like Windows 11.
• A GPU column in the Task Manager. On AMD systems, Processes and
  Details show live per-app GPU usage with the same heat-map shading - see
  exactly which game (or browser tab pile) is hammering your card.
• Storage. A new app in GlouOS Settings shows per-drive usage bars and
  what's actually eating your space: every installed Steam game
  individually, shader caches, Proton prefixes, the package cache, Flatpak
  and your home folders - with one-click cleanups for the safe stuff
  (Recycle Bin, old package versions, shader caches, thumbnails).
• FPS overlay switch. One toggle in the Game Center turns the MangoHud
  FPS overlay on or off for every game - no launch options, no config
  files.
• The Game Center catches game-breaking faults. The Performance advisor
  now detects a missing Vulkan driver for your GPU (the thing that makes
  every Proton game crash on launch - with a one-click install), a missing
  32-bit Vulkan driver, driver setup that never finished during
  installation, and missing swap/zram. Breakage warnings sort above the
  tips.
• Task Manager heat map + process search and a Recycle Bin in the
  File Explorer sidebar with per-item Restore and one-click Empty.
• Folder sizes in Properties, including file and folder counts.

Fixed

• The GPU graph shows your actual GPU. On systems with more than one
  GPU (a Radeon card plus the CPU's built-in graphics, say), the Task
  Manager was graphing the idle integrated GPU - a flat line - instead of
  the card doing the work. Every GPU now gets its own entry with its real
  name, live utilization, VRAM usage and temperature, discrete card first.

v0.12 Public Release

GlouOS 0.12

Added

• Discord that streams the right way up. The official Discord app's own
  voice engine flips the picture upside down on NVIDIA cards and can't
  capture audio - and that's a bug only Discord can fix. GlouOS now
  recommends Vesktop (Discord with proper Linux support): the Welcome
  Center and Package Manager list "Discord (Vesktop - fixed screenshare)"
  first, with the official app still available below it. Vesktop
  screenshares through the same pipeline browsers use: correct orientation,
  native Wayland, and it even streams game audio.

• A progress bar for file operations. Compressing, extracting, copying
  and moving no longer leave you guessing: the File Explorer's status bar
  shows a live progress bar with a percentage, weighted by actual bytes -
  so zipping up a big game folder ticks along visibly instead of sitting
  there in silence.

• The installer slideshow shows the real GlouOS. The placeholder art in
  the installation wizard is gone - while your system installs you now see
  actual screenshots of the desktop, the Game Center's performance advisor
  and the one-click Package Manager, each sized to fit without stretching.

• A real Task Manager. GlouOS now ships its own Windows 11-style Task
  Manager: Processes with End task, a Performance tab with live CPU /
  Memory / Disk / Network / GPU graphs and full stats (speed, cores,
  caches, uptime), Startup apps you can enable or disable with a
  double-click, a Details view and a Services list. Open it with
  Ctrl+Shift+Esc - just like Windows - or from the start menu, GlouOS
  Settings, the desktop right-click menu, or by right-clicking the search
  button on the taskbar.

Fixed

• Vulkan drivers are on the ISO now - no internet, no problem. If you
  installed GlouOS without an internet connection, the AMD/Intel Vulkan
  drivers silently never got installed - and every Proton game would just
  crash on launch. The Mesa Vulkan drivers (plus audio firmware) now ship
  on the ISO itself, the driver setup retries and reports failures instead
  of staying quiet, and the first login warns you if anything is still
  missing.
• Taskbars finally match across monitors. Pinning an app on one
  screen's taskbar now shows up on the other instantly, and so does
  re-ordering your pins - both taskbars stay perfectly in sync instead of
  living separate lives.

v0.11 Public Release

GlouOS 0.11

Added

• Right-aligned taskbar is now a true mirror. Setting the taskbar to
  Right no longer just shoves your apps up against the clock: the whole bar
  flips. The clock, tray and weather move to the left edge, your apps and
  the search button sit on the right, and the Start button lands in the
  right-hand corner - a proper mirrored Windows layout. The preview in the
  Taskbar settings shows exactly that.

Fixed

• Your taskbar survives updates now. Pinned apps and your chosen
  alignment used to vanish whenever an update refreshed the desktop layout,
  because the refresh replaced the panel configuration wholesale. It now
  carries your pins and alignment over into the new layout - you get the
  updated taskbar without re-pinning everything.
• New files show up. Always. Compressing a folder's contents from
  inside it created the zip but the File Explorer wouldn't show it - and
  refreshing didn't help, because the refresh didn't actually re-read the
  folder. F5 is now a real refresh, and the view refreshes itself after
  every copy, paste, delete, undo, extract and compress, so what you see is
  always what's on disk.
• Performance Mode actually turns on. The toggle silently did nothing
  on installed systems: the installer writes the GRUB config with single
  quotes and the toggle only recognised double quotes, so the checkbox
  reverted every time. It now handles both, verifies the change landed, and
  tells you if something went wrong instead of quietly unticking itself.

v0.10 Public Release

GlouOS 0.10

Added

• Even the upload dialog is GlouOS now. When a browser or app asks you to
  pick a file to upload (or where to save one), you get the GlouOS File
  Explorer as the picker - same sidebar, breadcrumbs, search and file-type
  filter - instead of the old Dolphin-style dialog. Open, save,
  multi-select and choose-folder dialogs are all covered.
• A proper Dolphin-style sidebar. The File Explorer sidebar now has
  sections: Recent (Recent Files from across the system, and the folders
  you visited recently), Devices (every mounted drive with its size,
  root included) and Network (mounted smb/nfs/sshfs shares), so
  everything connected to your PC is one click away.
• Extract archives right from the File Explorer. Right-click a .zip,
  .tar.gz, .7z, .rar (and friends) and you get a proper Extract
  menu - Extract here, Extract to "name/" or Extract to… a folder you
  pick. Extraction runs in the background so the window never freezes, and
  Ctrl+Z puts it back like it never happened.
• An "Open with" menu. The File Explorer right-click menu now lists the
  installed apps that can actually open the file you clicked, plus a
  Choose another app… picker for everything else - no more round-trips
  through another file manager just to open something in a specific app.
• Drag & drop everywhere. You can finally drag files between folders,
  drop them onto folders, and drop them straight onto the sidebar - Home,
  Desktop, Downloads, your game drives, all of it. A plain drop moves,
  hold Ctrl to copy, and dragging files out into other apps works too.
• Undo. Real undo. Ctrl+Z in the File Explorer now undoes copies,
  moves, renames, drags, new files and folders, extractions - and even
  restores files you deleted, pulling them back out of the wastebin.
• Proper keyboard shortcuts in the File Explorer. F5 refreshes, Ctrl+F
  jumps to search, Ctrl+N opens a new window, Ctrl+W closes it,
  Ctrl+Shift+N makes a folder, Ctrl+Shift+C copies the path, Shift+Delete
  permanently deletes, and Alt+←/→/↑ navigate - on top of the cut / copy /
  paste / rename keys you already had.
• The File Explorer remembers how you like it. Switch to Details or
  Icons, sort by size, drag a column wider, resize the window - it all
  sticks, and every new window opens exactly the way you left the last one.
• A fuller right-click menu. Create link, Duplicate, Sort by (name,
  size, type or date), Select all and Undo join the menu, so the custom
  context menu now covers what you'd reach for in Dolphin - with the same
  GlouOS look it had before.

Changed

• You can pin apps to the taskbar now. Right-click any running app and
  Pin to Task Manager - it was hidden before because the whole desktop
  was locked down. The layout is still protected: the edit mode that liked
  to duplicate your taskbar (and the Add Panel / Add Widgets entries) stays
  tucked away, but pinning just works.
• "Show in folder" opens the GlouOS File Explorer. When a browser or
  any other app asks to reveal a downloaded file, it now opens the GlouOS
  File Explorer with that file already highlighted - instead of dumping you
  into Dolphin.
• Installing asks you once, not twice. The installer's Summary page is
  the confirmation now. The extra "are you sure?" popup is gone - which
  also happened to be the popup that liked to open on a screen that wasn't
  there (see below).

Fixed

• AppImages just run. Double-clicking an AppImage used to hit KDE's
  "launching executables is not allowed" wall (and downloads aren't marked
  executable anyway). GlouOS now treats an AppImage like Windows treats an
  .exe: double-click it and it runs, from the File Explorer, the desktop or
  the browser. The FUSE library AppImages need is preinstalled too.
• The Extract menu shows up for every archive. Right-click acts on
  exactly the file under the cursor, and archives are recognised by their
  content as well as their name - so a zip with a strange filename still
  gets Extract here and friends.
• The installer stays put on multi-monitor rigs. It used to hop from
  screen to screen every few seconds because it kept re-deciding which
  monitor was "first". It now picks one screen (preferring a laptop's
  built-in panel) and stays there for the whole install.
• The invisible install confirmation. Clicking Install could pop the
  confirm dialog onto a disabled monitor, leaving you to press Enter and
  hope. With the double-confirm removed, there is nothing left to hide.
• Discord screen sharing on Wayland actually works. The GlouOS Discord
  launcher now captures through PipeWire and the desktop portal (the same
  trick Vesktop uses), so you can stream and share windows without falling
  back to Discord in a browser.
• Only one File Explorer in the start menu. Searching "file explorer"
  used to find two - one of them secretly Dolphin in a trench coat. The
  leftover entry is gone, on fresh installs and existing ones.

v0.9 Public Release

GlouOS 0.9

Added

• A Windows 11-style taskbar. The panel has been rebuilt to feel like
  Windows 11: a centred Start button (the GlouOS logo), a search icon, pinned
  apps, the system tray and clock on the right, a weather widget in the corner
  and a show-desktop sliver at the very edge. On a dual-monitor setup both
  screens now get their own matching taskbar.
• Taskbar alignment settings. A new Taskbar page under
  GlouOS Settings → Appearance & Style lets you put your taskbar apps on the
  left, centre or right, with a live preview of each. The clock and
  tray always stay pinned to the right, exactly like Windows.
• A brand-new File Explorer. GlouOS no longer leans on Dolphin: it ships
  its own File Explorer that looks and behaves like the Windows 11 one — an
  address bar with breadcrumbs, back / forward / up, "Search this folder", a
  clean toolbar (New folder, Cut, Copy, Paste, Rename, Delete, View) and a
  Windows-style sidebar (Home, Desktop, Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Music,
  Videos, This PC). It is fast, works on your real folders, and has a
  Windows 11-style right-click menu with a New submenu (folder, text
  document, and more), an icon row for the common actions, Open in Terminal,
  Copy as path, Compress and Properties.
• All drives in the sidebar. The File Explorer sidebar now has a Drives
  divider that lists every mounted disk (with its size), so your extra game and
  storage drives are one click away.
• btrfs-assistant is now preinstalled, giving Btrfs installs a proper
  graphical front-end for browsing and restoring snapper snapshots.
• A GlouOS look of its own. A new GlouOS Dark colour scheme (a stylish
  dark slate rather than pitch black) and the GlouOS green accent are applied
  across the desktop, so the system has its own identity instead of stock KDE.

Changed

• Every GlouOS app now follows light and dark mode. GlouOS Settings, the
  Welcome Center, the Package Manager, Updates, the Game Center, the File
  Explorer and the Taskbar page all track your chosen theme — switch to dark
  and they turn into the same dark slate as the taskbar instead of staying
  white.
• Updates now bring the desktop across too. When you update in place, GlouOS
  applies the current desktop layout (the new taskbar, accent and lock screen)
  to your profile once, backing up your previous configuration first — so an
  existing install gets the new look without a reinstall. See the note below.

Fixed

• The installer no longer stretches across two monitors. On dual-monitor
  machines the installer now stays on a single screen for the whole install.
• The login and lock screens behave on dual monitors. The custom GlouOS
  login now appears on the primary screen only instead of being duplicated and
  misaligned across both, and the lock screen matches it.
• Discord screen-sharing is no longer upside-down for the people watching.
  GlouOS ships a Discord launcher that disables the broken hardware video
  encoder path responsible for the flipped image.
• Taskbar alignment actually works. Setting the taskbar to Left or Right no
  longer dumps everything into the middle or merges the clock with your apps —
  the app group moves and the clock stays on the right, as it should.
• The Taskbar settings previews are now real little taskbar mock-ups, so Left,
  Centre and Right are clearly different at a glance.

Removed

• Dolphin is no longer the default file manager. The new GlouOS File
  Explorer takes its place. (Dolphin can still be installed from the Package
  Manager if you want it.)

---

Updating from 0.8: open GlouOS Updates and click Download & install
(or run sudo glouos update). This delivers every new app and fix above. The
first time you log in afterwards, GlouOS applies the new Windows 11 taskbar,
accent and lock screen to your desktop automatically — your previous panel
configuration is backed up to
~/.local/state/glouos/desktop-backup-* in case you want it back. No
reinstall needed.

v0.8 Public Release

GlouOS 0.8

Added

• GlouOS Game Center, a new home for everything gaming. A notification
  bell collects every action that may be limiting your potential performance,
  with a one-click Fix where GlouOS can fix it for you: monitor running below
  its maximum refresh rate, wrong GPU driver, gaming scheduler not running,
  Power Saver profile, running on battery, fallback kernel, low disk space and
  more. It also shows full system information, what's using your CPU and
  memory right now, and quick access to the gaming tools. Everything is
  analysed locally and only when you open it: no background service, no
  trackers, nothing ever leaves your PC.
• Audio setup in the Welcome Center. First boot now asks you to pick your
  default output and input devices from two dropdowns, or skip with
  "I will do this later".
• X3D cache-aware gaming on dual-CCD AMD X3D processors (7900X3D,
  7950X3D, 9950X3D): when a game starts, GlouOS steers it onto the CPU cores
  with the big 3D V-Cache, and hands the high-clock cores back when it exits.
  Automatic, per game, and inert on other CPUs.
• Full GPU controls for AMD cards. CoreCtrl fan curves, clock and power
  controls are unlocked out of the box on machines with an AMD GPU
  (previously every slider was greyed out, as on most distros).
• glouos -v prints your installed GlouOS version, and the version is
  now shown in GlouOS Updates too.
• Voice chat readiness: 32-bit microphone support for older games and
  launchers, plus a proper volume control panel (pavucontrol) for
  per-app input troubleshooting.

Changed

• GlouOS Updates now updates absolutely everything. GlouOS releases live
  on GitHub rather than in the package repositories, and the update button
  previously only installed repository packages, so a new GlouOS version was
  never delivered by the app itself. Checking now also looks at GitHub and
  announces "GlouOS 0.9 is available", and Download & install delivers the
  new release together with the package updates.
  (Coming from 0.7: run sudo glouos update once to receive this fix; the
  app updates everything by itself from then on.)

Fixed

• Clicking Download & install in GlouOS Updates reported success while
  leaving GlouOS itself on the old version (see above).
• The update status headline could claim "up to date" while a newer GlouOS
  release existed on GitHub.

Removed

• Nothing removed in this release.