A fork of the Arc GTK theme is available on GitHub and it picks up exactly where the theme's previous authors left off, which is great news if you're a fan. | Continue reading
The boot screen experience in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS looks a tiny bit different from the one provided in Ubuntu 19.10 — at least for some people. | Continue reading
Vulkan-based game capture is among a raft of new features added to OBS Studio. OBS (which stands for 'Open Broadcaster Software') is a popular open | Continue reading
Purism, the privacy-focused open source hardware and software company, has unveiled a new product: the Purism Librem Mini. The Purism Librem Mini is a | Continue reading
Good news for people keen to try out the (much improved) Windows Subsystem for Linux in Windows 10, as Microsoft say the revamped version of the tech is nearing general release. | Continue reading
Looking for a desktop radio player for Linux? Check out Shortwave, a GTK app that lets you search for and listen to radio, and even record radio streams. | Continue reading
Interested in kicking the tyres on Ubuntu via Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)? If so, a new web page has been added to the Ubuntu website to | Continue reading
A new version of Geary, the GTK-based email client for Linux desktops, is now available to download. Geary 3.36 is said to offer "a number of | Continue reading
The release of an official Raspberry Pi image writer tool means it now easier than ever to install Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi 2, 3 or 4! | Continue reading
Darktable, the open source alternative to Adobe Lightroom, is back with a new feature release — its first update of the year, adding major new features. | Continue reading
If you're a fan of the Arc GTK theme — and there's a good chance you are you are as its incredibly popular — you may be slightly concerned to hear that | Continue reading
If you love the look of tiling window managers but don't fancy giving up your creature comforts, keep an eye on Pop Shell — it's a new GNOME extension in | Continue reading
The official GNOME 3.36 release is now 'out' and you will know if you read our recent feature roundup, it's a pretty big upgrade! GNOME 3.36 features a | Continue reading
With the Firefox 74 release out of the way Mozilla developers now turning their attention towards Firefox 75, scheduled for release in the early part of | Continue reading
Mozilla Firefox 74 is now available to download for Windows, macOS and Linux — and it features a decent set of improvements. The headline change in | Continue reading
An update to gThumb, a GTK-based photo manager and image viewer for Linux desktops, is now available to download. We recap the gThumb 3.9.1 features. | Continue reading
If you took one look at the new Ubuntu 20.04 wallpaper and thought to yourself: "Heh, I could do better!" — here's your chance to prove it! | Continue reading
Zorin OS 15.2 is now available to download. The update serves as the latest point release in the Zorin OS 15.x series which debuted last year. A raft of | Continue reading
OpenShot devs have issued a new bug fix update to the non-linear video editor to iron out wrinkles in the recent (and sizeable) OpenShot 2.5.0 release. | Continue reading
A trash can icon appears on the desktop of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and up by default, but not everyone is a fan of it being there. So, if you want to remove the | Continue reading
Ubuntu Studio is running an online poll to help it select a set of wallpapers for its upcoming release. 10 wallpapers will be selected from a pool of 17. | Continue reading
A new version of the open source video editor Shotcut is available to download, and in this post I share some of the changes it includes. | Continue reading
I don't use IRC as much as I used to but I do use it more often than other, newer communication 'standards' like Slack, Matrix et al. So when I heard | Continue reading
Linux Mint wants to make it easier to transfer files between Linux PCs on the same network. 'Warpinator' enables wireless file transfers through a clean UI. | Continue reading
The Xubuntu 20.04 LTS wallpaper contest is open for entries until March 13, 2020. Six winning entries will ship as part of the Xubuntu 20.04 release. | Continue reading
The upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 release will ship with a Snap version of Ubuntu Software app by default. Ubuntu's default software management tool joins the | Continue reading
Put 'em to good use If you're a Spotify Premium subscriber — get you, fancy pants — did you know you easily stream music from the command line? Like, | Continue reading
Do you want to see the new default Ubuntu 20.04 wallpaper? Well, you can as exclusively reveal the brand new background below! Every great Ubuntu release | Continue reading
If you've dreamed of using LibreOffice on Android or iOS the release of Collabora Office will be of particular interest. Collabora Office is a free and | Continue reading
LibreOffice 6.4.1 has been released. It is the first point release in the LibreOffice 6.4.x series, which debuted in January with a tonne of improvements. | Continue reading
A small batch of end-user improvements to the "Additional Drivers" screen are being prepped ahead of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Now that the latest NVIDIA graphics | Continue reading
If you're keeping on top of the new Ubuntu 20.04 features — no worries if you're not, it's not stable yet anyway — you'll be expecting the change featured | Continue reading
A sizeable new update to GIMP, the open source graphics editing programme, is now available to download. GIMP 2.10.18 builds on the refinements introduced | Continue reading
A revamped version of the GNOME Clocks app will ship in GNOME 3.36. In this post we look at the redesigned app and its new, mobile-friendly design. | Continue reading
Adapta is one of the best GTK themes available for Linux desktops — so popular that Google forked it for use in Chrome OS. Making a GTK theme isn't easy. | Continue reading
The official GTK project website has been given a striking new look. Many coders looking to get started GTK app development likely make the website their | Continue reading
If you read a lot of manga and you use the Ubuntu desktop check out Komikku, a relatively new Manga reader app for Linux written in Python and GTK. Now, | Continue reading
The upcoming GNOME 3.36 release will sit at the heart of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS when it arrives this spring — but what are the new feature it'll bring? Well, in | Continue reading
A lot of folks love using Bing's image of the day as their desktop wallpaper — a task that the app featured below makes very easy on Ubuntu. Now, this | Continue reading
Learn how to change theme in Ubuntu quickly and easily, without terminal commands or odd apps. In fact, you already have everything you need to do it. | Continue reading
Open source artists should check out the latest release of MyPaint, as it scored a substantial update this weekend. The new MyPaint 2.0.0 release succeeds | Continue reading
GNOME design team member Tobias Bernard shares mockups of a possible new GNOME Camera app for use on the Librem 5 Linux phone and beyond. | Continue reading
Familiar, yet new A new version of Rhythmbox, Ubuntu's default music player app, is available. Rhythmbox 3.4.4 is a small update to this venerable player | Continue reading
The latest Ubuntu 18.04 LTS point release is now available to download. Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, which arrives a week later than planned due to a few last | Continue reading
A new version of the Vivaldi web browser is now available for download with an improved pop-out video player and improve keyboard shortcut navigation. | Continue reading
A new version of the MATE desktop has been released and in this post —yes the one you're reading right now— I recap some of the changes being offered in | Continue reading
Mozilla has pushed out the Firefox 73 release, so this post we take a quick look at the new features Firefox 73 brings. Or rather we would if there were | Continue reading
OpenShot video editor has a new version available to download. We look at the new OpenShot 2.5 features and changes, of which it features a tonne. | Continue reading