Ubuntu to Fix a Not-So-Obvious ‘Bug’ in its Icon Theme

Ever looked at Ubuntu’s default icon theme Yaru and found yourself thinking: “Eh, some of those icons look too big”? —No, can’t say I had either! But it turns out some of Yaru’s icons are […]

13 February 2025

Ubuntu 24.04.2 Delayed, Won’t Be Released This Week

If you were expecting Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS to drop February 13, I come bearing some a punch of awk news: the release has been delayed. Canonical’s Utkarsh Gupta reports that an ‘unfortunate incident’ resulting in […]

12 February 2025

GNOME’s Website Just Got a Major Redesign

GNOME rolled out a huge revamp to its official website today, and I have to say: it’s a solid improvement over the old one. The official GNOME website has an important role, serving as both […]

12 February 2025

Clapper Media Player Adds New Features, Official Windows Build

A new version of the slick Clapper media player is out with several neat improvements Not newly new, I should say. I hadn’t run a flatpak update in Ubuntu I an age so I only […]

12 February 2025

KDE Plasma 6.3 Released, This is What’s New

A new version of the KDE Plasma desktop environment is out and, as you’d expect, the update is packed with new features, UI tweaks, and performance boosts. KDE Plasma 6.3 is the fourth major update […]

11 February 2025

ONLYOFFICE 8.3 Released, Now Supports Apple iWork Files

A new version of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, a free, open-source office suite for Windows, macOS, and Linux, is now available to download. ONLYOFFICE 8.3 brings a bunch of new features and nimble enhancements spread throughout […]

9 February 2025

How to Disable ‘App is Ready’ Notifications in Ubuntu

Finding yourself annoyed at those ‘window is ready’ notifications which pop-up when you open some apps in GNOME Shell on Ubuntu? If so, you can disable them by installing a GNOME Shell extension. Now, notifications […]

8 February 2025

Ghostty Terminal Now Supports Server-Side Decorations on Linux

A new version of Ghostty emerged this week and in this post I run-through the key changes. For those unfamiliar with it, Ghostty is an open-source terminal emulator written in Zig. It offers a “fast, feature-rich, […]

7 February 2025

LibreOffice 25.2 Released, This is What’s New

LibreOffice 25.2 has been released, this year’s first major update to the leading open-source office software for Windows, macOS, and Linux. As you’d expect, the update delivers a sizeable set of changes spread throughout the […]

6 February 2025
Ubuntu and Windows logo with a plus side between them.

Installing Ubuntu on WSL in Windows 11 is Now Easier

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) user? If so, you will be pleased to hear that Ubuntu is now available in Microsoft’s new tar-based distro format — no need to use the sluggish Microsoft Store. Canonical […]

5 February 2025

Firefox 135 Brings New Tab Page Tweaks, AI Chatbot Access + More

Right on schedule, a new update to the Mozilla Firefox web browser is available for download. Last month’s Firefox 134 release saw the New Tab page layout refreshed for users in the United States, let […]

4 February 2025

How to Fix Spotify ‘No PubKey’ Error on Ubuntu

Do you use the official Spotify DEB on Ubuntu (or an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution like Linux Mint)? If so, you’ll be used to receiving updates to the Spotify Linux client direct from the official Spotify […]

3 February 2025