When I heard that Flock was the most awaited event every year for the Fedora community, and that I was going to be a part of it, I was genuinely excited. Gradually, I found myself involved right in the middle of Flock 2026 planning. Months of planning. Dozens of meetings. Meeting notes referenced and re-referenced…
FireDragon is the default browser on Garuda Linux, the Arch-based distro known for its polished KDE Plasma spins and reliability despite riding the bleeding edge. It has traditionally run on a Floorp base, giving it Firefox’s extension support wrapped in Garuda’s privacy defaults and Dr460nized branding. Now the developers have flipped the playbook, changing its…
You can now install an official Google Chrome build on Arm64 Linux devices, including the Raspberry Pi. Back in March, Google promised Chrome for Arm64 Linux in “Q2 2026” so users on SBCs, AI desktops and the growing-fleet of Snapdragon laptops out there, could use the flagship browser and benefit from the handful of extras it offers over…
GE-Proton 11-3 (and 11-2 just before) is a huge release for the popular compatibility layer for SteamOS / Linux. With this release you can expect to see upgrades and improvements for OptiScaler, AMD FSR4, controller support, video playback and updated versions of various translation layers like: DXVK, DXVK-NVAPI, VKD3D-Proton, D7VK, Vulkan headers, and FEX (for…
17 Liam’s Desktop UX Brief: GNOME ships with a bare-bones Activities overview and no quick-access power menu. Kiwi Menu replaces the Activities button with a compact, macOS-inspired dropdown that puts session controls, recent files, and a Force Quit dialog one click away. I tested it on Ubuntu 26.04 with GNOME 50 and it completely changes…
A recorded lecture, a podcast published as video, a concert clip you only ever listen to: sometimes all you want from an MP4 is its audio track. ffmpeg does this in one command, with full control over the output quality. This guide shows how to convert MP4 to MP3 with ffmpeg, pick sensible quality settings,…
The following was written by Dave Hansen and Thomas Gleixner. The Linux Kernel community mourns the unexpected and premature passing of Dan Williams. Dan was a computer scientist with a focus on storage, persistent memory, filesystems and trusted computing. Aside from his outstanding technical contributions he served as a member and chairman of the Linux…
Don’t we learn something new everyday? Something that might be obvious to others but feels like discovery to you? I had that feeling when I learned about the concept of compose override in Docker. In my self-hosted Ghost CMS deployment, I made modifications in the compose file to introduce log rotation. But now the compose…
DistroWatch.com: MagOS Linux Last Update: 2026-07-25 00:27 UTC MagOS Linux is a Russian desktop-oriented distribution based on ROSA, a distribution that was forked from Mandriva Linux in 2011. It uses the RPM package management. MagOS Linux comes with KDE Plasma desktop by default, but it also ships the lightweight LXQt desktop for older and low-specification…
Most Linux guides still recommend the same FTP clients they listed years ago, even though some of those projects are no longer maintained. If you install one of them today, you may end up dealing with bugs, compatibility issues, or missing features instead of simply transferring files. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a standard network…
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