For those don’t like Electron apps, ‘Psst’ is a new GTK client for the Spotify music service. Since the official Spotify app for Linux is a web app running via Chromium engine, native Linux apps may be preferred. And ‘Psst’ ...
The GNOME image viewer and organizer app, gThumb 3.11.4 was released! PPA updated with Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04, and upcoming Ubuntu 21.10 support. Thanks to libheif library, the new release introduced HEIF file format support, so it can ...
For those looking for a lightweight Linux Desktop Environment, MATE is a good choice besides XFCE and LXDE. MATE is a free open-source fork of the classic Gnome 2 desktop. It also forked a list of core applications, e.g., Caja ...
For users switching from macOS, there’s a GNOME Extension to replace the top-left corner ‘Activities‘ with system logo menu. So the top-left corner will display your selected logo icon instead of the ‘Activities’ button. When you click on it, a ...
The LibreOffice office suite 7.2 was released with many new features and improvements. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04, and Ubuntu 21.10. LibreOffice is the default office suite available in Ubuntu as well as many other ...
KDE’s Kdenlive Video editor 21.08 was released. The official PPA added Ubuntu 21.10 “Impish Indri” support. Kdenlive, stands for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor, is a free and open-source video editor for KDE though it also works on other desktop environment. ...
Zorin OS 16 was officially released! Features Ubuntu 20.04 LTS package base, Kernel 5.11, and modified Gnome Desktop 3.36. Zorin OS is an open-source Linux distribution for personal computers. It provides an user friendly desktop appearance based on Gnome. With ...
SMPlayer media player released version 21.8.0 with official dmg package for macOS, and more binary packages for Linux users. SMPlayer is a free open-source video player for Windows and Linux. By releasing v21.8.0, it finally adds macOS support officially. It ...
This tutorial shows how to enable hardware video acceleration (VA-API) for Firefox, so it uses the video card to decode/encode video to save power. Hardware video acceleration is a computer technology to make the graphics card to encode and decode ...
Debian 11, code-name ‘Bullseye’, officially released. Features 5-year support, Kernel 5.10 LTS, out-of-the-box support for exFAT file-system and most modern printers. Debian is free open-source community-supported Linux distribution started in 1993. It aims to be “The Universal Operating System” that ...
Wine, the free compatibility layer to run Windows apps on Linux, released v6.15 as the latest development version. According to the release note, Wine 6.15 comes with following changes: WinSock (WS2_32) library converted to PE. Support for performance data in ...
Mozilla Thunderbird email client released new major 91.0 version with many new features and improvements. Thunderbird 91.0 now runs in multi-process (e10s) mode by default, which offers many advantages in responsiveness, stability, performance, and security. For macOS users, the release ...
The official PPA for Shutter screenshot tool is back! So far contains packages for Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 21.04. Shutter is one of the most popular screenshot tool for Linux. Other than basic screen capturing feature, it supports plugins, profiles, ...
Mozilla Firefox 91.0 is available with more than 1200 bug-fixes, new major privacy enhancement, and other features. The release introduced more comprehensive logic for clearing cookies. With Firefox Strict Mode, you can clear a site data including embed content, such ...
Want to cut a clip out of a video and share with your friends? Try Video Trimmer, a stupid easy way for those working on Linux. In Linux there are quite a few ways to cut clips or trim videos ...