Office suites have changed a lot since the first ones landed on desktops decades ago. What began as basic tools for typing letters and totaling numbers has turned into sprawling software loaded with templates, cloud sync, and now, AI. It’s 2026, and that last part has split the office suite market into two camps. Microsoft…
While the Linux WiFi/wireless maintainer just announced taking a stand against AI/LLM generated slop patches with a new “three second review” rule, the broader Linux networking subsystem continues to be bombarded with AI-generated patches. Jakub Kicinski sent out this week’s set of networking patches ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc7 kernel test release on Sunday. In…
Arise Dark Lord is an action-strategy hybrid RTS that blends tower defence, base building and direct control of your Dark Lord avatar. Coming from Introversion Software who originally created Prison Architect, The Last Starship, Multiwinia, Darwinia, Uplink and more. From the press email sent to GamingOnLinux “You are The Dark Lord. Your evil aim:…
The GNOME Project has announced GNOME 50.4 as the fourth maintenance update to the GNOME 50 desktop series, containing several noteworthy security changes, particularly in GDM 50.2, fixing a path traversal vulnerability where a compromised greeter could load arbitrary .desktop files using the SelectSession interface. GDM 50.2 also closes an autologin bypass that let a…
Running Large Language Models (LLMs) locally has become increasingly popular for development, privacy, and offline testing. Ollama makes this incredibly straightforward, allowing you to run models like Llama 3 or Mistral directly on your machine. By leveraging Podman on Fedora Linux, you can isolate Ollama inside a container. This approach keeps your host system clean…
Fans of the the Papirus icon theme will be pleased to hear there a new update – the first since May 2025. Papirus’s first update in 2026 (the tardiness of which its maintainer, Serhii Yeremenko, apologises) brings over 80 new or updated icons spanning apps, games and user-interface icons, plus new file mimetypes and revised symlinks. Frequent…
DistroWatch.com: starkOS Last Update: 2026-08-04 14:09 UTC starkos-20260803-sway (more screenshots in our gallery)Â Â starkOS is an independently-developed GNU/Linux distribution designed for experienced Linux users. It uses a ports system and the stark package manager to install and update software from source code. The project provides a lightweight live image with Sway Wayland compositor and some…
21 Liam’s Desktop UX Brief: Linux just crossed 7.5% global desktop market share according to StatCounter’s July 2026 data. That number might sound small, but for an operating system that spent decades below 2%, it represents a genuine inflection point. I have been tracking Linux desktop adoption for years, and this is the first time…
GNOME Shell Extensions are usually sourced from extensions.gnome.org, or “EGO” as the GNOME folks call it. Every submission on this portal is manually reviewed, and that review process has been under strain for months now. We covered this back in December when GNOME added a rule to its EGO review guidelines rejecting AI-generated slop. They…
A common frustration when working with Git is needing to switch branches while your current working tree has uncommitted changes. You can stash the changes , switch branches, make the fix, switch back, and restore the stash, but that flow interrupts your work and can create conflicts. git worktree lets you check out another branch…
