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@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ The biggest change in this release is undoubtedly the move to Wayland as the def
 
 Wayland is not, strictly speaking, a display server like X. Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk through. To make things more confusing the compositor can be a Wayland client itself. It could also be an X application, some input device or a standalone display server. Wayland doesn't actually do much and that's by design. As the Wayland FAQ puts it, "the compositor sends input events to the clients. The clients render locally and then communicate video memory buffers and information about updates to those buffers back to the compositor."
 
+[image="fedora25-desktop.jpg" caption="The stock Fedora 25 desktop with GNOME 3.22"]
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 What's perhaps most remarkable for a change that's so low-level, and in fact one that's taking a lot of X functionality and moving lower down into the stack, is how unlikely you are to notice it. In my experience so far -- about two weeks of use as I write this -- the transition to Wayland has been totally transparent. Even better, GNOME 3.22 feels considerably smoother with Wayland. It's difficult to describe without seeing it, but little moments of tearing that used to happen under X are gone and common tasks like dragging windows are much smoother. 
 
 To be clear there are still plenty of things that don't work with Wayland. In fact there likely will always be legacy system elements that don't know what to make of Wayland and will never be updated. For that situation there's XWayland, which is a plugin for Wayland compositors that runs a real X server inside Wayland. XWayland is a big part of why you're unlikely to notice the move to Wayland.
@@ -46,6 +48,8 @@ Fedora 25 has plenty of other little changes beyond the move to Wayland by defau
 
 In a bid to make Fedora a bit easier for newcomers to try out, Fedora 25 ships with a revamped Fedora Media Writer in the repos (curiously, it's not installed by default). Media Writer gives you a nice GUI to grab the latest Fedora release (or any of the official spins) and write it to a USB stick. It's a step up from the more simplistic tools in previous versions. I actually tried to use Media Writer back in Fedora 24 and it wrote to the wrong USB stick. Fortunately I didn't have anything of value on that stick and to this day I'm not 100% sure it was Media Writer's fault and not user error, but in either case I was leery of testing it again. This time, to be extra safe I made sure that my thumb drive was the only drive plugged in and it worked as advertised, grabbing the MATE spin and burning it to disk with a mere two clicks.
 
+[image="fedora25-live-writer.jpg" caption="Fedora's Media Writer is a very slick and easy way to get a bootable USB stick with Fedora (or any other distro) in couple of clicks."]
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 Fedora used to position itself as the distro for developers. This meant in part that Fedora was looking for users who would contribute back to the community, but it also meant that Fedora shipped the latest stable version of most programming languages and was quick to adopt new ones. This release follows in that tradition; developers can look forward to a version bump for PHP (to version 7.0), Node JS to 6.5, Ruby on Rails 5.0, and new support for the Rust language with a Rust Compiler (Cargo) installed by default. 
 
 ## GNOME 3.22
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 It's not entirely fair to make fun of GNOME 3's previous ever-shifting updates, it has been a perfectly usable desktop for several year's worth of releases now. Perhaps not a good choice for those who like to configure and tweak every setting, but workable nonetheless.
 
+[image="fedora25-software.jpg" caption="GNOME's Software app has seen a slight redesign and now offers a little more info about Flatpak apps. Still odd that it wastes a featured app spotlight on a web browser that's installed by default anyway."]
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 This release also brings improved support for Flatpak apps in GNOME Software. Flatpak apps are designed to improve the software installation process in GNOME and Linux in general by making it easier for developers to package, and users to install, software across distributions. With Flatpaks you don't need to worry about dependency conflicts or even if your distro of choice has the app you want. Flatpaks also offer improved security and stability by sandboxing applications.
 
 With GNOME 3.22 you can add Flatpak repos, and then browse and install apps from those repos without ever needing to drop into the command line. The Software app also now shows a bit more information about Flatpak apps -- like source information and the sandboxing status.
 
-GNOME's Nautilus File Manager, nee Files, also gets some attention in this release, including a new tool for bulk renaming files. Just select the files you'd like to rename and then you can apply bulk renaming features, like adding a prefix, suffix or even using a completely custom template based on, for example, date. 
+GNOME's Nautilus File Manager, nee Files, also gets some attention in this release, including a new tool for bulk renaming files. Just select the files you'd like to rename and then you can apply bulk renaming features, like adding a prefix, suffix or even using a completely custom template. 
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+[image="fedora25-files-rename.jpg" caption="The new file renaming dialog in GNOME 3.22 Files app (right click a selection or press F2)."]
 
 There's also a new integrated file compression utility that means you can now double click a .zip file and it just extracts the contents to a folder without opening File Roller. That should make working with compressed files much more familiar for mac and windows users making the switch to GNOME.
 
+[image="fedora25-files-compress.jpg" caption="Creating archives via the new compress feature in Files. Just right-click your selected files and chose 'compress'."]
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 Also worth mentioning, GNOME Maps has been fixed and now uses Mapbox map tiles.
 
 ## Fedora Spins