What do you do when you own a handheld gaming device that you really wish was a Steam Deck? You install SteamFork on it, that’s what you do.
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Two months after Holly Million tendered her resignation — and a month-and-a-half after leaving — the financially strapped Gnome Foundation announces that the search is on for a new executive director.
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The post 10 Best Linux Desktop Environments of All Time first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .One exciting aspect of Linux, unlike Windows and Mac OS X, is its support for numerous desktop environments. This has
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Does Wayland becoming the defacto standard display server for Linux serve to marginalize BSD?
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Professional shaman Holly Million, who became Gnome’s executive director in October, has evidently participated in a banishing ritual and will disappear from Gnome at the end of this month.
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The post How to Install Cinnamon Desktop On Ubuntu 24.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .If you are looking for a simple and neat desktop environment, then you should try out the Cinnamon desktop environment.
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While the alpha release of the new scratch-built-in-Rust Cosmic desktop has been pushed back by a couple of months, that’s not expected to delay the launch of the production ready version that will be the default DE in Pop!_OS 24.04 later this year.
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We could be wrong, but the FOSS Force crystal ball tells us we’ll see a production ready version of Cosmic DE released by late April, just in time for this year’s LinuxFest Northwest.
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The first beta release of KDE Plasma 6, which exchanges X11 for Wayland, was released last week. The second beta will be released in two weeks.
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There’s a good chance that when Fedora 40 is released in April, that it will become the first major Linux distro to be released without X.
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This week FOSS News Roundup also includes a list of some goodies coming to KDE Plasma 6.
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In this week’s roundup, we look at the winding down of LibreOffice’s 7.5 series, how KDE’s getting it together for Plasma’s upcoming 6.0 release, Mozilla’s look at privacy issues and modern automobiles, and more.
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None of the Gnome extensions that are in use now will work on Gnome 45 when it’s released on September 20.
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In many ways, KDE Gear’s apps supply the backbone on the Linux desktop experience. Newly released KDE Gear 23.08 brings many changes to these apps, and we look at them here.
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The desktop environment that started as a side project for the Solus Linux distribution but has gone on to become included in many other distros, including Ubuntu Budgie, is out with a new release with new features and improvements.
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Now you can build your own computer using the same chassis and cooling technology that System76 uses in their popular Thelio line of desktops.
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Xfce takes home the award for “Favorite Linux Desktop Environment.” Coming in second in our poll was KDE Plasma, followed by Gnome and Cinnamon.
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When Xfce 4.18 was released in December, many of the desktop environment’s users might not have noticed many changes. That’s because most of the changes were under the hood, and its popular file manager, Thunar, went through a major overhaul.
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Eliminated in the first round of voting were Deepin Desktop Environment and Budgie, replaced by two popular window managers that received more write-in votes. Voting in the final round has already begun, and will remain open until 6 pm EST on Tuesday, …
The Gnome desktop is an excellent choice for new users, although it offers a user experience that’s a little different than the traditional desktop experience. This guide will demystify Gnome, which is essentially an easy-to-use desktop.
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