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Linux Mint partners up with Framework, also working on Night Light for Cinnamon desktop

By Liam Dawe, Nov 4

Some fun Linux distro news for you this morning as the Linux Mint team have a fresh blog post up on what they've been doing and it's quite exciting to see.

KDE Plasma 6.2 released with improved Wayland colour management

By Liam Dawe, Oct 8

The KDE team have today released the Plasma 6.2 desktop environment bringing with it a "friendlier, more accessible and smarter environment".

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System76 release COSMIC Alpha 2

By Liam Dawe, Sep 27

System76 are continuing to expand and improve their new Linux desktop environment, COSMIC, with a second Alpha release now available for testing.

GNOME 47 'Denver' released with Accent Colours and various System Enhancements

By Liam Dawe, Sep 20

The latest update to the GNOME desktop environment has been released, with GNOME 47 bringing some really quite lovely sounding improvements.

KDE Plasma 6.2 Beta released and Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 out now

By Liam Dawe, Sep 13

Time for a little testing over the weekend, as the KDE team have released Plasma 6.2 Beta along with updated Plasma Wayland Protocols.

System76 desktop environment COSMIC alpha now available to try

By Liam Dawe, Aug 8

System76 have today released the first alpha preview for you to try out COSMIC, their brand new home-grown desktop environment.

COSMIC Alpha coming in July - System76 reveal branding, a big hardware sale with new merch

By Liam Dawe, Jun 26

System76 are making a bit of a splash today, ahead of the Alpha release of their new desktop environment named COSMIC.

Plasma 6.1 released with Explicit Sync, Triple Buffering for Wayland and much more

By Liam Dawe, Jun 18

KDE Plasma 6.1 has been released today bringing with it plenty of exciting new features, some big and some small but there's plenty to enjoy.

KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta released with Wayland Explicit Sync support

By Liam Dawe, May 24

Time for testing, especially for those of you with an NVIDIA GPU as the KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta is now live with some new features.

KDE Plasma 6.1 will be able to sync keyboard RGB to your chosen accent colour

By Liam Dawe, Apr 8

More work is ongoing for the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.1 release, and there's some fun stuff being added like the ability to sync your keyboard RGB lighting up to your Plasma accent colouring.

KDE Plasma app Ark gets support for self-extracting .exe archive files

By Liam Dawe, Mar 26

In another of their regular update blog posts, KDE's Nate Graham has highlighted some recent new KDE Plasma features coming soon to the desktop.

3rd party KDE Plasma Global Themes and Widgets can lead to data loss

By Liam Dawe, Mar 21

Uh oh. Seems there's been an issue lately with Global Themes for KDE, which has ended up causing a total wipe of data.

GNOME 46 is out now with experimental variable refresh rate (VRR) support

By Liam Dawe, Mar 20

The release many GNOME fans have been waiting for is here and it's looking really fancy. GNOME 46 available now brings on experimental variable refresh rate (VRR) support. There's masses more of course!

System76 refresh the Adder WS laptop, plus COSMIC desktop Alpha in May

By Liam Dawe, Mar 15

Some exciting news for System76 fans here as not only have they now released the powerful refresh of the Adder WS laptop, but their COSMIC desktop environment is also approaching an Alpha release.

Plasma 6 lands in Arch Linux, KDE neon teething issues and Plasma 6.1 heating up

By Liam Dawe, Mar 7

The dust is starting to settle now the huge KDE Plasma 6 release is out in the wild, with it beginning to land for more distributions but there's been some issues.

GNOME pulls in experimental variable refresh rate (VRR) support for GNOME 46

By Liam Dawe, Mar 5

After years of waiting, experimental support for variable refresh rate (VRR) has landed for GNOME, and thankfully it will be in the GNOME 46 release.

The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released

By Liam Dawe, Feb 28

The KDE team announced "MegaRelease 6", a big upgrade that includes Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 and Gear 24.02 with tons of improvements to this popular desktop environment that's used on the Steam Deck for Desktop Mode.

KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 2 is available for testing

By Liam Dawe, Dec 21, 2023

Getting exciting now! We're closing in on the final release of KDE Plasma 6.0 with a second Beta now available for testing to ensure it's ready for your Linux desktops and eventually Steam Deck too.

HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 seems to be shaping up nicely

By Liam Dawe, Dec 18, 2023

While it's far from finished, and still needs some manual effort to get properly working, HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 has made great progress.

KDE Plasma 6 - Beta 1 released

By Liam Dawe, Dec 1, 2023

The KDE team continue sprinting towards to finish line of the Plasma 6 release next year, with a Beta release now available for the popular Linux desktop environment which is also used on Steam Deck.

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