Do you love decorating your workspace with widgets to make your desktop more useful? Well, here’s how I used KDE Plasma ...

If you combine the Xfce desktop with the Compiz compositing window manager, you get a desktop with a bit more panache than if you were to use Xfce alone. Compiz helps to turn Xfce into something akin ...

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The KDE community has just published KDE Gear 25.12, the newest quarterly update to its suite of applications. This refresh brings a mix of enhancements, bug fixes, performance refinements, and new ...

The Linux distribution AV Linux 25 is getting the Moksha desktop as an alternative and updates the MX Linux base to the Debian Trixie standard. After a long development period, Glen MacArthur (Handle ...

While Fedora is never shy about making extensive changes to its Linux distribution, the two significant changes for the now-released version 43 have required further development, and in the case of ...

If you’re coming from an MX Master 3 or 3S, there are three headlining upgrades: haptics, feel, and the new action wheel. MX Master 4 has an incredible haptic engine, and while it’s by no means a ...

Over this series test-driving operating systems, we’ve tried to bring you the unusual, the esoteric, or the less mainstream among the world of the desktop OS. It would become very boring very quickly ...

What if your next tablet wasn’t just another off-the-shelf device, but a fully customizable, Linux-powered powerhouse? Enter the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB tablet, a bold experiment in portable computing ...

For most of the last decade, talk about Wayland on KDE sounded like a promise: stronger security, modern graphics, fewer legacy foot‑guns, once the pieces land. With Plasma 6, those pieces finally ...

Come October 14th, Microsoft is officially ending support for Windows 10. That means no more new features or improvements, no more security fixes (though you can extend those another year by using ...