Joey Sneddon is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of OMG! Ubuntu. Since 2009, he has reported on Ubuntu and the wider open-source and Linux ecosystem, covering every major Ubuntu release since 9.04 to the present. With 16 years of hands-on experience reporting on Ubuntu and Linux, his coverage has been cited by leading technology news sites including Ars Technica, Engadget and Forbes.
KDE Plasma 5.9 is now available in KDE Neon User Edition. The latest stable release of the popular desktop environment, Plasma 5.9 was released at the beginning of February. It brings a number of new […]
If you’re looking for a simple way to quickly capture desktops and add a few annotations, we’ve found an app that you’ll want to try. Shots (stylised as –shots, but we’ll drop the dashes for this […]
I’ve recently started using KDE Plasma again after several years of only poking around in GNOME-based desktops, e.g. Unity, Budgie, Cinnamon, etc. While I wouldn’t say I’m fully orientated in K Desktop Environment land just yet I […]
LibreOffice 5.3 is now available to download, and The Document Foundation is calling it 'one of the most feature-rich releases in the history of the application'!
Snappy, Canonical's new app distribution and package management system, is now available to users running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Today’s release of Plasma 5.9, the latest stable release of the Linux desktop environment created by KDE, brings with a bunch of welcome changes and new features. Among them is a shiny new wallpaper — and […]
Oh My Giraffe is a twee endless runner game where you chase a high score. Better yet, the game is available to install for free from the Ubuntu Snap Store.
Stacey helps you monitor system resource usage, clear app caches, uninstall unwanted apps, and even stop system processes from running in the background.
KDE has announced the release of Plasma 5.9, the latest version of its modern desktop environment. “Plasma 5.9 brings many exciting new features to your desktop”, project lead Jonathan Riddell says. But precisely what? Let’s take a […]
Want to send SMS messages from the Ubuntu desktop? Well, now you can as Indicator KDE Connect has been updated to support sending SMS from the desktop.
Ahoy there, it’s (belated) release day for Ubuntu 17.04 Alpha 2! But don’t get too excited. As is typical of this stage in the Ubuntu development cycle there’s not an awful lot of change clear in […]
Dekko for Ubuntu Touch¹ may be going nowhere, but the re-written, Snap-based version is already starting to shine. And better yet: it’s available for testing right now. Development Snap builds of Dekko are available in the beta and […]
The current Dekko email app for Ubuntu phone is no longer supported, and no further updates will be released. Work is to continue on a Snap-based version.
Google Chrome 56 is rolling out to desktop users, with a number of small new features and security fixes in tow.
The KDE Slimbook is a new KDE-branded laptop that comes pre-loaded with the Ubuntu-based KDE Neon Linux distribution.
A new version of cross-platform CLI-based system info tool Neofetch is available to download, and it's packing some substantive changes.
Developers behind the Budgie desktop reveal they are switching to Qt to 'regain control over the experience, feature-set, and stability' of their desktop.
The Ubuntu web-browser app is getting a brand new icon after community members said the existing icon looked too similar to the Safari web browser.