Tuba app icon on a background grid of Mastodon logos

Tuba, the best Mastodon client for Linux, just got a BIG update

Tuba 0.11 adds full Mastodon quote and Collections support, UnifiedPush and an early, experimental Android build. Linux's best Mastodon app, now better!

20 August 2026
PINE64 hardware including PineTab and PinePhone

Pine64 stops making Linux devices as AI inflates component costs

If you’ve been eyeing up one of PINE64‘s Linux-friendly single-board computers, phones or tablets, now would be a good time to buy one. The open-hardware company has announced it will not be “producing more Linux […]

19 August 2026

Firefox 154 released with translation, AI and UI tweaks

Mozilla has released Firefox 154 with some small AI-related changes, an ‘improved’ full-page translations and faster video seeking on “all operating systems”. Firefox 154 serves as the final monthly release of Firefox before browser switches […]

18 August 2026

Ubuntu’s App Center doesn’t know what went wrong

I recently re-encountered my favourite ‘error’ dialog in Ubuntu, which is thrown by the distro’s App Center (snap-store), which is the default GUI software management tool. Now, I don’t see it often, but when I […]

18 August 2026
Wordbook GNOME app shows definition for the word define

Wordbook is a modern offline dictionary for GNOME

They say never judge a book by its cover, and few do if said book is a dictionary, but what about desktop dictionary apps? I recently came across Wordbook, a modern English-English dictionary powered by […]

17 August 2026
Linux kernel 7.2 announced on a mock newspaper with related hardware around it

Linux 7.2 brings cache-aware scheduling, faster ext4 and Btrfs

Linux kernel 7.2 has been released, adding cache-aware scheduling, ext4 filesystem performance boosts and a slew of new and improved hardware drivers for laptops and peripherals. A merge widow record was also set during the […]

17 August 2026
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