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GNOME Shell to get an Activities Overview design revamp in GNOME 40

By Liam Dawe, Jan 11, 2021

GNOME Shell is already quite different to how traditional desktop environments feel, and they're planning to mix things up again with some design overhauls for GNOME 40.

KDE will hopefully have a 'Production-ready' Wayland session for Plasma in 2021

By Liam Dawe, Jan 4, 2021

A KDE developer who regularly blogs about all the work going into the KDE ecosystem through the likes of the Plasma desktop environment and the various applications, has given an overview of what they expect to see through 2021.

Lightweight desktop Xfce 4.16 released with a visual refresh and fractional scaling

By Liam Dawe, Dec 28, 2020

1 year and 4 months of work later, the sleek and simple Linux desktop Xfce 4.16 is out now along with plenty of visual upgrades and some big tech upgrades too.

The Solus Linux team release the Budgie 10.5.2 desktop environment upgrade

By Liam Dawe, Dec 3, 2020

Solus, the independent semi-rolling release distribution has released a big upgrade to their flagship Budgie desktop environment with the 10.5.2 update.

Help out with FOSS as the Budgie Desktop team need translations help

By Liam Dawe, Nov 17, 2020

Ever tried or heard of the Budgie Desktop? It's a modern and feature rich Linux desktop environment from the Solus Linux team and they need a little help.

KDE releases the Plasma 5.20 desktop - just as beautiful as ever

By Liam Dawe, Oct 13, 2020

Plasma is arguably one of the prettiest Linux desktop environments around, and it's highly configurable too. The KDE team just released a huge upgrade with Plasma 5.20.

KDE Plasma 5.20 Beta is out and it's huge

By Liam Dawe, Sep 18, 2020

While GNOME recently had their own big release, the KDE team aren't far behind for showing off their latest modern Linux desktop environment with Plasma 5.20 Beta.

GNOME 3.38 'Orbis' is out now to showcase a modern Linux desktop

By Liam Dawe, Sep 16, 2020

GNOME 3.38 "Orbis" just landed today, which brings in another 6 months of hacking away at all the tech behind the GNOME desktop for a fully modern Linux environment.

Xfce desktop environment sees a 4.16pre1 release, better fractional scaling

By Liam Dawe, Sep 14, 2020

Lightweight classic desktop environment Xfce continues advancing, with a new pre-release update available for testing pulling in some great features.

The Plasma 5.19 desktop from KDE has released

By Liam Dawe, Jun 9, 2020

The KDE team have today announced the release of the Plasma 5.19 desktop environment with a 'Polished Plasma' codename.

GNOME seeking feedback on defining GNOME software

By Liam Dawe, May 26, 2020

This is your chance to get involved in open source in a community way, that doesn't require any coding as the GNOME team are looking to gather feedback.

KDE Plasma 5.19 has a first Beta in need of testing

By Liam Dawe, May 16, 2020

Want to ensure the next stable release of the KDE Plasma desktop environment is as good as can be? Plasma 5.19 Beta is out.

Desktop Environment

GNOME's Mutter gets 'fullscreen unredirect' supported on Wayland

By Liam Dawe, Apr 17, 2020

In upcoming versions of GNOME, one quite big change had now been merged in for those of you using it with Wayland.

GNOME 3.36 "Gresik" released with a 'Do Not Disturb' mode, NVIDIA dGPU launch options

By Liam Dawe, Mar 12, 2020

The GNOME desktop environment levels up in a big way with the GNOME 3.36 "Gresik" release with some massive improvements all over and it's looking awesome.