unsplash gaming laptop picture

Ubuntu 24.04 Makes Tiny Tweak to Hugely Improve Gaming

Gamers can look forward to more epic top-tier titles working out-of-the-box in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, which is due for release in late April. Following a user suggestion Ubuntu developers have massively increased the distro’s virtual […]

25 March 2024

Updated: Ubuntu 24.04 Gives ‘App Center’ a Brand New Icon

App Center, Ubuntu’s Flutter-based replacement for the Ubuntu Software app, has picked up a redesigned app icon in the latest Ubuntu 24.04 daily builds. This isn’t the first icon change that the App Center has […]

24 March 2024

How to Bring Back Ubuntu’s Iconic Login Sound

If you only started using Ubuntu sometime after 2012 then you have my apologies: this article won’t make a whole lot of sense. But if your roots with the distro reach back farther then the […]

23 March 2024

GNOME Shell Extension Manager App Updated

A big update to Extension Manager, a popular 3rd-party tool to browse, install, and manage GNOME Shell extensions without the need for a web browser, has been released. If you’re into customising Ubuntu, be it […]

21 March 2024
Plattenalbum MPD client hero

Looking for a Modern MPD Client for Ubuntu? Try Plattenalbum

This week I came across Plattenalbum, a modern GTK4/libadwaita frontend for the Music Player Daemon (MPD) built in Python. MPD remains a popular way to make music stored on a server or a computer available on […]

20 March 2024

GNOME 46 Officially Released with Improvements Galore

The GNOME project today announced the stable release of GNOME 46 “Kathmandu”, the latest update of its hugely popular open-source desktop environment. And what an update it is. I ran through the best GNOME 46 features […]

20 March 2024

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Official Wallpaper Revealed

Esteemed adherents of the arts rejoice, as the official Ubuntu 24.04 wallpaper has finally been unveiled! As you no-doubt know, every new Ubuntu release comes with its own unique desktop background and the upcoming release […]

19 March 2024
Mozilla Firefox 124

Mozilla Firefox 124 Released with Minor Changes, Linux Fixes

Mozilla Firefox 124 is now officially available to download. The latest update to the open-source web browser includes a small clutch of improvements. Firefox View can now sort open tabs by recent activity (default) or […]

19 March 2024

GNOME 46: The Best New Features

GNOME 46 is out on March 20 and and the update will be the centrepiece of April’s Ubuntu 24.04 release — but are you wondering what sort of improvements it brings? Well, I gotcha’ covered, […]

18 March 2024

Mozilla Axes its Privacy-Friendly Location Service

Mozilla has announced it is ending access to Mozilla Location Service (MLS), which provides accurate, privacy-respecting, and crowdsourced geolocation data. Developers and 3rd-party projects that use MLS to detect a users’ location, such as the […]

15 March 2024

Proton Mail’s New Desktop App is Available for Linux

Proton Mail has released a brand new desktop app for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The app means subscribers to the privacy-focused mail service no longer need to use a web browser to read, send, and […]

14 March 2024
VLC media player traffic cone icon on a green background

VLC Media Player Hits 5 Billion Downloads – Big Changes Ahead

VLC media player has now been downloaded over 5 billion times across desktop and mobile devices, with the most recent release clocking up 335 million downloads on its own! Jean-Baptiste Kempf, president of VideoLAN, the […]

13 March 2024