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The MATE project started as a fork of GNOME 2 long back in 2011 following the poor reception of GNOME 3. Since then, it has come a long way and the latest MATE 1.22 release continues to improve the different desktop components. The biggest change in this release is Wayland-related work. The developers have reworked […]
The GNOME Foundation has released the latest version of GNOME desktop environment, i.e., GNOME 3.32 ‘Taipei’. GNOME arguably the most popular Linux desktop around and many mainstream distributions — including Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE — feature the same. The latest version is the result of a six-month-long development process and it incorporates a total 26,438 […]
Budgie is Solus Project’s homegrown environment. After its advent, budgie-remix gained popularity and, eventually, became an official Ubuntu flavor with a new name Ubuntu Budgie. Just recently, the hard working developers shipped the latest release of Budgie desktop, i.e., Budgie Desktop 10.4. Before telling you how to install Budgie Desktop 10.4 on Ubuntu, let’s give you […]
Short Bytes: UKUI is a new desktop environment made for the Ubuntu Kylin Linux distro. It’s based on the on the MATE environment but features its own set of the icons, applets, and themes. UKUI is known for its resemblance with the user interface of Microsoft Windows. You can give UKUI a try on your […]
Short Bytes: In a shocking development, Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth just announced that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will ditch Unity 8 and ship with GNOME desktop environment by default. He also said that Canonical is ending its investments in phone and convergence shell development. After a couple of Alpha and Beta releases of Ubuntu 17.04, which were called […]
Short Bytes: The GNOME Project has released the latest stable version of their open source desktop environment. GNOME 3.24, codenamed Portland, is here after 6 months of development and 28459 changes. Some of the biggest features of GNOME 3.24 are Night Light, improved notifications, new Recipes and Games application, two GPU support, etc. In any […]
Short Bytes: KDE Plasma 5.9 is the latest desktop environment in the KDE Plasma 5 series. Major changes include improved notification preview, themes, task manager, and the return of global menu. Further, the Wayland desktop server is updated with features, and a touchpad utility is also included. The KDE community has released the KDE Plasma […]
Short Bytes: In an attempt to build something for the x86 platform, Raspberry Pi Foundation has released a Pixel desktop spin for PCs and Macs. An experimental version of Debian+Pixel is available for download. It can also run smoothly on older computers with 500MB RAM. In September, Raspberry Pi foundation gave up the Xfce for […]
Short Bytes: A new desktop environment has been released for the Raspbian Linux distribution. It is called Pixel and it marks one of the biggest visual changes to the Raspbian. It includes various features like new background images, redesigned icons and windows, WiFi and Bluetooth management options, RealVNC, Chromium, etc. The Raspbian Linux distribution for the […]
Short Bytes: GNOME and MATE are two widely used Linux desktop environments. The development teams of both projects have released their latest versions, GNOME 3.22 and MATE 1.16. While GNOME 3.22 brings a wide range of new features, including an updated File application and Flatpack integration, MATE 1.16 focuses on improving GTK3+ compatibility. GNOME 3.22 […]
Gnome is one of the most popular and most used desktop environment for Linux systems . It is a desktop environment which is composed entirely of free and open-source software and targets to be cross-platform, i.e. run on multiple operating systems, its main focus being those based on the Linux kernel. If you don’t have […]