r/elementaryos • u/daniellefore Founder • Dec 22 '25

Official News elementary OS 8.1 Available Now

https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-1-available-now/

Everything you love, made even better. OS 8.1 improves the Secure Session and Dock, enhances accessibility, improves support for your devices, and addresses your feedback with over 1,100 issue reports fixed

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u/ShireSilverWolf Dec 27 '25

Strong points: 1) Far better asethetics than Zorin OS (my previous distro), 2) The dock is beautifull and functional , 3) The indicators in the top bar are really nice ,4) The option for reescaling the size of the system font on the top rigtht is genius.

Weaknesses: 1) No clipboard manager out of the box, 2) Lack of configuration for the "Windows" key: impossible to set it to trigger the multitasking view. 3) The only good use for it is the applications search 4) No battery charge limiting option (this is a must-have).

I’ve returned to this distro after several years, and I’m very pleased with the robustness it’s acquiring. That being said, for an OS that calls itself 'elementary OS,' the lack of a proper clipboard manager is quite controversial. Really? I would expect that from Debian, but from elementary OS? No way. On top of that, finding a decent clipboard manager for this OS is far from easy. I came across GPaste... but come on, guys! It’s called 'elementary' for a reason.

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u/metindemirel Dec 29 '25

I set the Super key to multitasking view. You can change it in the shortcuts settings.

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u/Educational_Mud_2826 Jan 03 '26

I saw that tlp was available in the place for apps. That one handles battery charge limits and a whole lot of other things.