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KDE Plasma 6.3 is out now with big fractional scaling improvements, drawing tablet upgrades and more

By Liam Dawe,
7
KDE Plasma 6.3 has been released and it's another beautiful sounding release! Filled with new features and fixes for my favourite Linux desktop environment. Plasma is also used on the Steam Deck for the Desktop Mode.
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System76's COSMIC Alpha 5 is here with a new media player, VRR improvements and lots of fixes

By Liam Dawe,
4
Hardware vendor System76 continue building up their new Linux desktop environment, COSMIC, with a fifth alpha now available for testing.
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KDE Plasma 6.3 will have much better fractional scaling

By Liam Dawe,
15
The KDE team continuing building up the next version of the popular KDE Plasma desktop environment, with Plasma 6.3.0 getting some great additions.
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Xfce 4.20 desktop released with experimental Wayland support

By Liam Dawe,
25
After two years of work the Xfce team have release Xfce 4.20 which amongst many other things, now has very experimental Wayland support.
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Linux Mint partners up with Framework, also working on Night Light for Cinnamon desktop

By Liam Dawe,
3
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.
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KDE Plasma 6.2 released with improved Wayland colour management

By Liam Dawe,
16
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,
4
System76 are continuing to expand and improve their new Linux desktop environment, COSMIC, with a second Alpha release now available for testing.
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GNOME 47 'Denver' released with Accent Colours and various System Enhancements

By Liam Dawe,
28
The latest update to the GNOME desktop environment has been released, with GNOME 47 bringing some really quite lovely sounding improvements.
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KDE Plasma 6.2 Beta released and Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 out now

By Liam Dawe,
11
Time for a little testing over the weekend, as the KDE team have released Plasma 6.2 Beta along with updated Plasma Wayland Protocols.
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System76 desktop environment COSMIC alpha now available to try

By Liam Dawe,
16
System76 have today released the first alpha preview for you to try out COSMIC, their brand new home-grown desktop environment.
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COSMIC Alpha coming in July - System76 reveal branding, a big hardware sale with new merch

By Liam Dawe,
25
System76 are making a bit of a splash today, ahead of the Alpha release of their new desktop environment named COSMIC.
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Plasma 6.1 released with Explicit Sync, Triple Buffering for Wayland and much more

By Liam Dawe,
6
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.
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KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta released with Wayland Explicit Sync support

By Liam Dawe,
12
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.
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KDE Plasma 6.1 will be able to sync keyboard RGB to your chosen accent colour

By Liam Dawe,
7
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.
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KDE Plasma app Ark gets support for self-extracting .exe archive files

By Liam Dawe,
11
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.
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3rd party KDE Plasma Global Themes and Widgets can lead to data loss

By Liam Dawe,
28
Uh oh. Seems there's been an issue lately with Global Themes for KDE, which has ended up causing a total wipe of data.
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GNOME 46 is out now with experimental variable refresh rate (VRR) support

By Liam Dawe,
8
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!
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System76 refresh the Adder WS laptop, plus COSMIC desktop Alpha in May

By Liam Dawe,
4
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.
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Plasma 6 lands in Arch Linux, KDE neon teething issues and Plasma 6.1 heating up

By Liam Dawe,
40
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.
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GNOME pulls in experimental variable refresh rate (VRR) support for GNOME 46

By Liam Dawe,
3
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.
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