Picture widgets on GNOME Shell desktop

Add multiple picture widgets to your Ubuntu desktop

If you remember that desktop picture widget for GNOME I wrote about last year, but found it a bit too basic for your personalisation preferences, you weren’t alone. Another user felt it could lacked enough […]

14 August 2026
GeForce NOW app on a laptop with Linux mascot penguin holding logo

GeForce NOW’s Linux app exits beta, gets official Flatpak repo

GeForce NOW’s native Linux app has exited beta after seven months of testing, with official support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later. The app is a frontend for Nvidia’s game streaming service, with more than […]

13 August 2026

LightDM returns from the dark with first release in 4 years

LightDM, Ubuntu’s former display manager, has had its first new release in four years – and the first under a new set of maintainers. LightDM v1.33.0 is a ‘catch up’ release that adds Qt6 support […]

12 August 2026

GNOME 51 brings a floating search overlay to the Shell

GNOME 51, due out in September, could include a redesigned search experience. Presently, when you trigger a search from the GNOME Shell overview, a dedicated search results screen replaces the one you were looking at, […]

12 August 2026
ChatGPT logo with Linux mascot tux behind it holding the Ubuntu logo

ChatGPT desktop app is now available for Linux (in preview)

OpenAI has announced a preview release of the official ChatGPT Desktop app for Linux. Compared to using ChatGPT in a browser tab, the GUI desktop app can run Codex in your local repos, hook into […]

11 August 2026

Linux Mint will delete your old kernel versions automatically

Linux Mint has announced an overhaul in its kernel management features, and will automatically delete old kernels once a week to free up space. In current versions of the distro, kernel package tools are included […]

10 August 2026
A laptop showing the Linux Mint desktop.

Linux Mint 22.3 HWE released with Linux kernel 7.0

A refreshed Linux Mint 22.3 (Zena) OS installer is available for download, powered by Linux kernel 7.0. The distro made the first Linux Mint 22.3 HWE ISO available in March, with an installer that boots […]

10 August 2026

Windows 11’s Weather app uses ~1GB RAM, Linux apps a fraction

I was flummoxed to read a report on how much memory Microsoft’s Weather app uses on Windows 11 – more than 1GB just to render what is, ostensibly, a fancy table of stats. Less surprising […]

9 August 2026

Orion for Linux beta update adds private browsing and link previews

Kagi has released a new beta of Orion for Linux, a WebKitGTK-based port of its popular browser for macOS and IOS. Orion for Linux v0.4.1 builds on the v0.3.0 public beta, released in May, adding […]

9 August 2026
Dynamic Music Pill extension showing track lyrics in pop over on Ubuntu Dock

Dynamic Music Pill adds word-by-word lyrics highlighting

An updated version of Dynamic Music Pill, the GNOME Shell extension to put now playing track info and lyrics in your panel or dock with animated flourishes, is out. If you’re prone some desk-side crooning, […]

8 August 2026
Calibre Ebook Manager logo on a cutout against a pile of books (image from Unsplash)

Calibre 9.13 fixes broken ebook search in the content server

A new bug-fix release of Calibre, the open-source e-book manger, view and converter, is available for download. Calibre 9.13 fixes a number of PDF-related issues, including a conversion error that could occur on Linux distributions […]

7 August 2026

Resources (Linux system monitor) adds new PowerPC, NPU stats

Resources 51 beta, the system monitor Ubuntu now uses, adds AMD NPU stats, PowerPC CPU temps and alternative memory-usage metrics.

6 August 2026