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.
The popular, powerful, and cross-platform video converter HandBrake recently put out a new version with a notable improvement. HandBrake 1.8.0 now uses GTK 4 for the user interface, dropping GTK 3 entirely. This toolkit uplift […]
Ubuntu offers a powerful, configurable, and easy-to-use desktop experience out of the box. However, as the saying goes, one size doesn’t fit all. Customising Ubuntu’s look and layout is easy. Install those essential apps, add […]
A new version of VLC, the perennially popular open-source media player, is out with an assortment of improvements and new features. VLC 3.0.21 is the first maintenance release to be issued year, following on from […]
Proton, the Swiss-based privacy company best known for its VPN and e-mail services, has announced the release of Proton Pass for Linux and macOS. The new desktop apps mean Proton’s open-source and end-to-end encrypted password […]
A new version of the OMG! Ubuntu web extension for Google Chrome, Chromium, and other compatible browsers is available on the Chrome Web Store. —Oh, you didn’t know we had a browser extension? ;) That’s […]
With the AI gold-rush in full swing the folks at Raspberry Pi have joined the fray, launching a new budget-friendly machine-learning module for their iconic single-board computer. The $70 Raspberry Pi AI Kit is composed […]
The Software Manager app in Linux Mint 22 will deliver faster start-up times and introduce a significant security safeguard for search results. As you may know (and if you don’t, what’s living on Mars like? […]
There are many ways to convert documents on Ubuntu, but few are as quick or as easy to use as Morphosis. Morphosis is a new desktop app written in Python and GTK4/libadwaita, powered by Pandoc, […]
Those using Ubuntu on Windows through the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) may be interested to know that ‘significant updates’ are on the way. In a blog post to recap things discussed as the recent […]
Few computer keyboards are as iconic, as influential, or as beige as the IBM Model-M — no surprise then that it’s been given a modern reimagining by 8BitDo. Following on from their Nintendo NES and […]
This month’s Firefox 126 release brought with it a modest set of improvements for Linux users — as well as an annoying bug which temporarily breaks drag and drop actions in the browser. And that […]
Ubuntu 24.04 is now available for the Milk-V Mars RISC-V single board computer (SBC). RISC-V is an open-source processor specification, allowing anyone to access its design to create their own chips without paying licensing fees or […]
Day Progress is a new GNOME Shell extension that does something appreciably simple: display a progress bar in the top panel to convey how much of the day has passed. “A clock does that?”, you […]
Cascadia Code is an open-source monospaced font created by Microsoft, first released in 2020. It’s used as the default font in the official Windows Terminal app. Similar to Intel’s One Mono, JetBrains’ Mono and IBM’s […]
Rufus, a popular open-source tool for making bootable USB drives on Windows, just released an update that includes a ‘fix’ for working with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ISOs. A truly versatile tool, Rufus is able to […]
Stop by the Snap Store website today you’ll see it’s undergone a revamp – the second design rejig to the online storefront in the past 12 months but more substantive than the first. The search […]
You can now upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS from Ubuntu 23.10 using the standard GUI updater — no command-line developer flags required. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS released on April 25 but distro delayed in-place upgrades because […]
Wondering what sort of nifty new features the Firefox web browser will get in future updates? Well, wonder no more as Mozilla has shared a roadmap outlining its near-term priorities on new features, performance, compatibility, […]