#desktop-environments

#desktop-environments

The Ergo Sleeve is a laptop sleeve that unfolds into a portable ergonomic workstation, combining a laptop stand, wrist support and workspace organization into one slim design.

No matter how inevitable the AI-takes-all scenario may sound, as long as there is a person in the world who still wants to own their means of computation, we will be here to build the hardware that enables it.

The last week of the release continued the same 'lots of small fixes' trend, but it all really does seem pretty benign, so I've tagged the final 7.0 and pushed it out.

KDE Linux was created and is maintained by the KDE team. According to the KDE Linux website, this distribution is 'Designed to be safe, maintainable, functional, and modern, KDE Linux will be the best choice for home use, enterprise workstations, public institutions, pre-installation on computers you can buy, and more.'

Opera GX on Linux offers a unique GX Control feature that allows users to manage memory limits, network limits, and control resource-heavy tabs, enhancing performance and user experience.

What started in 2019 as a couple of utilities for things like window and shortcut management has gradually expanded to nearly 30 useful tools, including a keyboard shortcut creator, an image-to-text extractor, and a better search bar than the one that's built into Windows proper. PowerToys has become wildly popular among Windows power users, with more than 70 million downloads to date, but it's also completely free, with no ads, Office upsells, or ham-fisted Copilot integrations.

KDE Plasma is a remarkably customizable desktop environment. On top of being highly flexible, it's also fast and stable, so it would make perfect sense why you might want to migrate from Windows to a KDE Plasma-powered desktop distribution. But if you want to carry over the look and feel of Windows 11, how do you do that? With a bit of tweaking.

Currently, a Wayland compositor combines three primary functions into one. It must act as a display server, it must manage windows, and it must composite those windows together to be displayed on screen. The River project, which is about three years old now, splits this up. It's a display server and it's a compositor, but it doesn't do window management. Instead, it offers a documented window management protocol so that another, separate program can do the window management.

KDE Plasma 6.6 is upon us. Feb. 17 is the official release date, and there's plenty to be excited about. We'll be getting improvements for displays, UI, security, and more. Certain default apps are being switched out, and there'll be the usual bug fixes and performance improvements. All-in-all, 6.6 is looking to be a rather exciting release. I've written about it, and now I've tested it by using the KDE Neon Unstable edition.

Manjaro is a sweet Arch-based Linux distribution, and it has the fans to prove it. Manjaro is designed to take Arch to new heights of user-friendliness, and it succeeds quite well. Of course, there are always those who believe everything can be improved, which is why a small team of developers decided to fork Manjaro and create Elegance. The beauty of Elegance isn't in the UI, although the developers have made Cinnamon look pretty good.