This site is a collection of tips, examples and small chunks of code I’ve used over the years as I’ve worked with Linux. Mostly the items found here are for my own use but I’ve made the site public in the chance that it will help other people. If you find something useful please let […]
Read MorePowered by Lumo, the tool turns your exported AI chat history into a personalized report of your privacy exposure.
Read MoreIt is meant to be a middle ground between window managers and desktop environments.
Read MoreFor those on Linux Mint who like to keep multiple kernels around but don’t want them to take up too much space, you might be getting a new automated tool.
Read MoreCachyOS August 2026 release is now available with the latest version of KDE, some new features, and plenty of improvements.
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. David Heinemeier Hansson has announced the release of Omarchy 4.0.0, a major update of the project’s Arch-based Linux distribution featuring the Hyprland Wayland compositor: “Omarchy 4 a…
Read MoreIf you remember that desktop picture widget for GNOME I wrote about last year, but found it a bit too basic for your personalisation preferences, you weren’t alone. Another user felt it could lacked enough flexibility, so forked and improved it. …
Read MoreBy placing its qualifying patents in OIN 2.0’s cross-license community, ByteDance strengthens a defensive resource for open source while distancing itself from the political baggage surrounding TikTok.
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The native Linux app for NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW finally goes stable! Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. GeForce Now is NVIDIA’s cloud gaming service that streams high-end PC games to laptops, phones, and TVs, allowing for better gaming experience without requiring high-end hardware. NVIDIA introduced the GeForce NOW Linux […]
Read MoreFaugus, the open-source app launcher for running Windows games and Steam games in Linux, released new 2.1.0 version today. This simple and lightweight UMU-Launcher based application added GOG games support in the past few weeks. With the new 2.1.0 version, it can now run Amazon games in your Linux Desktop. Besides new games support, this […]
Read MoreThe post Kubescape: Kubernetes Security Scanning for Manifests, Images, and Clusters first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Kubescape is a CNCF security scanner that checks your Kubernetes manifests, container images, and live clu…
Read MoreIt took years of silence, new maintainers, and a release to bring LightDM back.
Read MoreGeForce Now’s native Linux app has exited beta after seven months of testing, with official support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later. The app is a frontend for Nvidia’s game streaming service, with over 4,500 PC titles running in the cloud on…
Read MoreGeForce Now’s native Linux app has exited beta after seven months of testing, with official support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later. The app is a frontend for Nvidia’s game streaming service, with over 4,500 PC titles running in the cloud on…
Read MoreVLC got blamed for Microsoft’s clumsiness.
Read MoreWhile some open source projects are locking AI out of their codebases, Omarchy’s upcoming v4 release treats AI as part of the system.
Read MoreThe popular FFmpeg media library announced the first maintenance update for the 9.0 “Lei” release on Wednesday. PPA updated for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 and 26.04 LTS. The new FFmpeg 9.0.1 brings a total of 83 fixes and improvements mainly for its libavcodec, libavfilter, and libavformat libraries. For the Vulkan-accelerated FFV1 decoder, it now determines and […]
Read MoreThe post MakerSkills: Add AI Agent Skills to Claude Code on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .makerskills is an open-source pack of AI agent skills for Claude Code. This walkthrough covers how to install it on
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VLC takes a long time to play MP3 on Windows? Blame it on Microsoft Defender, not VLC.
Read MoreThis is to announce wdiff-1.2.3, a stable release.
There have been 29 commits by 2 people in the 637 weeks since 1.2.2.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to …
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Philip Müller has announced the release of Manjaro Linux 26, the new stable build of the project’s set of rolling-release distributions with a choice of GNOME, KDE Plasma and Xfce deskto…
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