From Wayland woes to clipboard quirks, Alacritty 0.13 tackles a slew of bugs, optimizing memory usage and refining the user experience.
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The big news for Linux users in Firefox 121 is the enablement of the Wayland compositor by default instead of XWayland. Apart from improving the graphics performance, this also brings support for touchpad and touchscreen gestures, swipe-to-nav, per-mon…
Learn about the new minimal snap-free option in Lubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat with additional new features and updates.
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Lubuntu developer Simon Quigley breaks the news today, exclusively for 9to5Linux.com, that the upcoming Lubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system will be shipping with an optional Wayland session for its LXQt desktop offering.
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After half a year of development, the Weston project proudly announces the release of version 13.0 of its Wayland composite Server. This milestone introduces features and enhancements that solidify Weston’s commitment to providing a robust foundation f…
KDE Plasma 6 sounds impressive. With a major version bump, users should expect major changes that improve the out-of-the-box user experience.
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Coming six months after NixOS 23.05, the NixOS 23.11 release is here to introduce the latest GNOME 45 “Riga” desktop environment series. The GNOME edition ships with the GNOME 45.1 desktop by default on a Wayland session for both bare metal and virtual…
Work on Cinnamon 6.0 is over, and the final release landed today on GitHub, so it’s my pleasure to guide you guys through some of the most important changes included in this major update to Linux Mint’s in-house desktop environment.
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RHEL 10’s plan reveals Wayland’s dominance in future Linux releases, focusing on enhanced display features. Here’s more on that!
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With the release of Firefox 120 hitting the stable software repositories of various popular GNU/Linux distributions, Mozilla has now promoted the Firefox 121 release to the beta change for public testing, so it’s time to take a look at the new features…
The elementary OS team has unveiled some exciting developments on the path to elementary OS 8, and it’s time for you to get the scoop.
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FESCo members voted 6+1 to include KDE Plasma 6 with Wayland as the only desktop mode available in Fedora 40. Here’s more on that!
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After releasing GNOME 45.1 last month as the first point release to the latest GNOME 45 “Riga” desktop environment series, the GNOME Project also published today updates for two important components, GNOME Shell and Mutter.
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NVIDIA 545.29.02 is here with beta-quality support for NVIDIA GeForce and NVIDIA Workstation GPUs to open-source Linux kernel modules that NVIDIA offers alongside the proprietary variant of its graphics driver.
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NVIDIA has released a new driver for Linux that adds support for the Night Light feature in GNOME. Night Light is a feature that reduces the amount of blue light emitted from your display. This, studies show, can help to improve sleep quality, and redu…
Linux Mint’s vision showcases a continued reliance on Xorg. Wayland’s on the horizon, but full readiness is projected for 2026. More on that here!
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In a monthly update post, the Linux Mint team announces some exciting developments, such as an unstable repository, updates to Hypnotix, the TV viewer application, and ambitious plans for Wayland support.
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Linux Mint 21.3, the next major release of the popular Ubuntu-based Linux distro, will include experimental Wayland support for the Cinnamon desktop. Wayland is (as I’m sure you know) a modern display server protocol designed to solve the shortco…
The Raspberry Pi Foundation released new images for its Raspberry Pi OS that are based on Debian Bookworm. This is a major update that switches from X11 to Wayland by default with new apps, replacements for previous default apps, as well as other neces…
Unfortunately, the recently updated Xfce roadmap doesn’t give much hope that the desktop environment will soon be ready for Wayland. Learn more here.
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