AppImage Fan? You Need to Check Out ‘Gear Lever’

AppImages are great: a single runtime containing all of the dependencies needed for an app to run in a double-click binary that can be run from anywhere on your system. Therein lies the rub. If […]

30 July 2024

JetBrains IntelliJ Idea Users Can Test a ‘Pure Wayland’ Build

JetBrains users wondering when Wayland support might land should check out the latest ‘Early Access Program’ (EAP) builds released earlier this month – Wayland preview, ahoy! At present, all of JetBrains’ IntelliJ-based IDEs on Linux […]

29 July 2024

How to Enable Hardware Acceleration in Chromium Snap

Last May, Canonical announced that a hardware-accelerated version of the Chromium snap was available for testing on Intel (7th-gen and later) hardware. And that news was very welcome: hardware acceleration + the modern web = […]

28 July 2024
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VirtualBox 7.1 Beta: ‘Modernised’ UI, Wayland Clipboard Sharing + More

If you plan on trying the new Linux Mint 22 release in a virtual machine, why not double-up the fun by taking it for a spin in the VirtualBox 7.1 beta, which slipped out last […]

26 July 2024
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Linux Mint 22 Officially Released, This is What’s New

And we’re go – Linux Mint 22 ‘Wilma’ has been officially released and made available to download. This major update is the first to be based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS This major update is built […]

25 July 2024

$60 Radxa X4: Cheaper & Faster than a Raspberry Pi 5

Love the idea of tinkering around with a small, single-board computer (SBC) but need something more powerful than most ARM-based offerings provide? If so, the new Radxa X4 from Radxa may be of interest. Powered […]

24 July 2024

First Pop!_OS 24.04 Alpha with COSMIC DE Arrives August 8

Course set: the first alpha of Pop_OS 24.04 is scheduled for release on August 8th. So if you’ve been counting the days until you can try the new COSMIC desktop environment first hand… Well, keep […]

23 July 2024

Qt-Based eBook Reader FBReader Now Supports DRM EPUBs

FBReader 2.1 has been released for Windows, macOS, and Linux, with the team behind the eBook reading app calling it “a major update for desktop platforms”. If you’re not familiar with FBReader it’s a Qt-based […]

22 July 2024

Tiling Shell GNOME Extension Adds New Way to Tile Windows Quickly

If you’ve tried the Tiling Shell GNOME extension you’ll know how easy it makes it to tile application windows in GNOME Shell, from simple to more complex. The latest update, which began rolling out through […]

21 July 2024
Nautilus file manager windows side by side, one does not render ebook thumbnails, the other does.

How to Display eBook Thumbnails in Nautilus (Quick Tip)

I recently rediscovered my Amazon Kindle (a geriatric model from 2012, nothing fancy) and figured, as it still works, I’ll use it, and set about downloading freely available1 EPUBs of classic (and not-so-classic – I’m […]

19 July 2024

GNOME’s New Video Player is Now Available on Flathub

Were you excited by news GNOME plans to replace the Totem media player in its core software set with a new, modern, and actively maintained app called Showtime? If so, you may be just as […]

18 July 2024

OBS Studio 30.2 Adds Linux NVENC Encoding, Hybrid MP4 Support

OBS Studio, the open-source leader in cross-platform screen-casting and streaming software, put out a new release this week. OBS Studio 30.2 adds Linux support to the native NVENC encoder, plus Linux shared texture support to […]

18 July 2024