My Plasma 6 Feature Wishlist

As Plasma 6 progresses there's a bunch of things I'd like to see added into Plasma 6, whether that'll happen or not is still to be seen going into the future...

A Neat Linux Kernel Feature You Will Never Use

It's easy to forget that the main use for Linux is in the business world as such a bunch of changes get made that don't really matter for the desktop user bu...

The REAL Truth About Wayland

Wayland is set to be an important graphical protocol going into the future of Linux but does that really make sense and is there perhaps more going on than w...

The KDE Plasma 6 Experience

I've been talking quite a bit about my experience on KDE Plasma 6 but since I have a developer here he seems like the perfect person to chat about the proble...

The XZ Linux Backdoor Is Incredibly BAD!!

Of all the times for a massive vulnerability to come out did it have to be over the Easter Weekend, I just wanted to take a break and here we are talking abo...

Downgrading packages

XZ tools and libraries compromised with a critical issue

There's been an urgent security bulletin sent out in a few places today in the Linux sphere that relates to the XZ tools and libraries with liblzma, as certain version have been compromised.

Proton Experimental updated for The Finals, Red Alert 2, deals with high core count CPUs

Valve has released a new Proton Experimental update that pulls in some nice fixes for Linux Desktop and Steam Deck gamers, and this update should improve quite a few games!

Maniac is classic GTA meets Vampire Survivors - out now on Steam

From Transhuman Design we have the next survivor-like game with Maniac, that puts it into a classic GTA setting while you go on a bit of a frenzy.

Multiplayer comes to Cassette Beasts on May 20th

The fantastic monster collection game Cassette Beasts is adding in online multiplayer, with a Beta available now with the full update due out on May 20th.

Simplifying The Configuration Of Immutable Distros

A lot of people have this assumption that immutable distros can not be configured but that's not exactly the case, in fact they can be it's just done at a ve...

KDE Global Themes Are Fundamentally Changing

After the recent KDE Global theme situation things need to change with how KDE handles global themes thand thankfully that seems to be happening with a coupl...

Squad-based online shooter Enlisted: Reinforced now on Steam with Linux support

Gaijin Network (War Thunder) and Darkflow Software (CRSED: Cuisine Royale) have today released the online squad-based shooter Enlisted: Reinforced into Early Access on Steam.

Oh Snap! Canonical now doing manual reviews for new packages due to scam apps

After repeatedly suffering issues with scam apps making it onto the Snap Store, Canonical maker of Ubuntu Linux have now decided to manually look over submissions.

PUNKCAKE Délicieux just added Linux support to a whole bunch of games

PUNKCAKE Délicieux are a game dev duo that release small fun games around once a month, and they've just now given all of their available titles the Linux (and macOS) treatment.

SDL 3 will prefer Wayland Over X11, if certain protocols are available

Less than a week ago, SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) developers restarted the discussion regarding whether Wayland should be configured as the preferred over X11, but now Wayland will be sticking if certain Wayland protocols are available.

Requirements To Become An Official Ubuntu Flavour

If you're distro is an official Remix you can sort of do whatever you want but if you want to become an official flavour there's a few more requirements that...

4D Golf is making my brain melt away

Released on March 22nd, 4D Golf is about exploring higher dimensions through Golf. It's absolutely wild visually and I think you need to see this.

Building A Tiling Focused Ubuntu Flavour

I'm honestly surprised there isn't already a tiling flavour of Ubuntu Linux, there is one for Fedora but somehow the biggest distro in the world doesn't have...

Red Hat Tries To Make Better OPEN NVIDIA Drivers

If you wanted to use open source Nvidia drivers your only option for the longest time was Nouveau but a couple of Red Hat engineers are aiming to change that...

Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy from the ATOM RPG team has a demo and Kickstarter live

The team behind the post-apocalyptic ATOM RPG have launched a demo and crowdfunding campaign for Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy, a fantasy cRPG inspired by Infinity Engine titles like Baldur's Gate 1, Icewind Dale and other classics.

KDE Plasma app Ark gets support for self-extracting .exe archive files

In another of their regular update blog posts, KDE's Nate Graham has highlighted some recent new KDE Plasma features coming soon to the desktop.

Sci-fi deck-builder Hyperspace Deck Command has a demo out now

Hyperspace Deck Command is the next game in the Hyperspace Anthology from Sleeper Games that includes their two previous games Swirl W@tch and ---Red---Tether-->.

Nova, a Rust-based Linux driver for NVIDIA GPUs announced

Danilo Krummrich who is a Red Hat display driver team Software Engineer, announced the Nova project, a Rust-based GSP-only driver for Nvidia GPUs.

Orange Pi Neo Linux gaming handheld starts at $499 with Ryzen 7840U, Ryzen 8840U at $599

After being revealed early in February, the upcoming Orange Pi Neo that will come with Manjaro Linux now has a price, and there will be multiple versions of it although we still don't exactly have a clear release date.

Ubuntu 24.04 increases vm.max_map_count for smoother Linux gaming

At last! Users from Ubuntu 24.04 onwards that's scheduled to release on April 25th should hopefully see a smoother Linux gaming experience.

KDE Virtual Desktops Still Broken After 20 Years

I've been very vocal on the way virtual desktops work on KDE Plasma and there has been an open issue about exactly this problem for the last 19 years and by ...

Draw 7 and hope you get a good hand in the Steam Deckbuilders Fest

Running through until April 1st at 10am PT / 5pm UTC, the Steam Deckbuilders Fest is live filled with games with cards of all sorts.

Trackline Express is a bit like Unrailed! with even more chaos

Trackline Express is a train building game from Bubblebird Studio that's planned to release on April 18th, and it sure does look like some wonderful chaos.

Check out tactical dice-rolling roguelike combat in Slice & Dice

Slice & Dice from developer Tann has recently arrived on Steam giving players a fresh tactical dice-rolling roguelike, along with Native Linux support.

Why Bother Reviving Ubuntu Unity

One of the most interesting projects Rudra is involved with is Ubuntu Unity, an Ubuntu flavour that has revived Unity for the modern Linux user, I wasnt arou...

Cinematic narrative adventure Until Then releases May 23rd

Polychroma Games and Maximum Entertainment have announced the cinematic narrative adventure Until Then is going to release on May 23rd.

Mini Airways is like Mini Metro / Mini Motorways but for aircraft

After a interesting take on the strategy management sim? Taking a heavy dose of inspiration and naming from the very popular Mini Metro and Mini Motorways, a completely different developing is doing their take with Mini Airways.

MangoHud manager GOverlay 1.1.1 released upgrading to QT6

GOverlay, the app you can use if you want a UI to manage overlays like MangoHud has a new release out that upgrades its insides and fixes some bugs.

Nature-expanding tile-stacking puzzler 'Preserve' has a demo up on Steam

Preserve looks very sweet. A tile-based puzzle game all about nature that features both horizontal and vertical building and there's a Native Linux demo now available to try out.

Steam Deck and Desktop Steam Beta fixes a Steam Play bug with Windows versions

Valve released a fresh Steam Beta Client update on March 22nd, and with it a bunch of bug fixes for both Steam Deck and Desktop Steam.

COSMIC Desktop Alpha Is Only Weeks Away!!

The COSMIC desktop alpha was supposed to come out at the end of March but it's been delayed just a little bit until May to round out developing the first par...

Manual review of all new snap name registrations

Over the recent weeks, the Snap Store has been under attack by various publishers attempting to upload malicious crypto-wallet snaps.

Hyprcursor Is Simply A Better Way To Do Cursors

For a very long time now the way we handle cursors on Linux through a system called Xcursor and that's also on Wayland but who says we can't do it better and...

Proton 9.0 (Beta16) brings more regression fixes, updated Steamworks SDK

Valve have released another Beta version of Proton 9.0, what will become the next main stable version of Proton on the path to getting as many games running as possible on Linux Desktop / Steam Deck.