After a year of development, Wine, the software for running Windows apps on Linux finally released new stable 7.0 version with over 9,100 individual changes. What’s New in Wine 7.0: In Wine 7.0, most modules have been converted to PE ...
Want to display time and date on your Ubuntu Desktop as widget? Without Conky or any other app, there’s now Gnome extension can do the trick by adding a live clock on your wallpaper. It’s ‘Showtime’, an extension based on ...
Want to check your laptop battery status in Ubuntu or other Linux? There’s a small indicator applet that can do the job in GNOME desktop. “Battery Status” is the free and open-source indicator applet developed by Lorenzo Carbonell, a software ...
The free open-source game chatting app Mumble released new major 1.4 version a day ago with exciting new features! Mumble is a high quality and low latency voice over IP (VoIP) app designed for gamers. By releasing v1.4.230, the first ...
Looking for an app to store your passwords? Secrets is a good choice for those using GNOME desktop. “Secrets” is a free open-source password manager that integrates perfectly with GNOME desktop and provides a modern and easy to use user ...
Linux Kernel 5.16 was released a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.10, and/or Linux Mint 20.x. Kernel 5.16 comes with many new features. Here are some of them: Initial DisplayPort 2.0 Support For ...
For Ubuntu 20.04+ and other Linux with GNOME desktop (e.g., Fedora workstation, Debian and Arch Linux), there’s an extension lets you quickly locate mouse pointer. The extension is called “Jiggle“. It highlights the mouse pointer position when it moved rapidly ...
Mozilla Firefox 96.0 was released today. The new release focuses on performance and security improvements. Firefox 96.0 significantly reduced the main-thread load, improved noise suppression and automatic gain control for better overall experience. It now enforces the Cookie Policy: Same-Site=lax ...
As you may know, Gnome control center (aka settings) has “Fractional Scaling” option since Ubuntu 20.04, allows to change scaling level for HiDPI displays. By default, user may scale up to 125%, 150%, 175% and 200% to make Ubuntu (or ...
The popular free open-source Handbrake video transcoder released version 1.5.0 a day ago and then 1.5.1 with quick fix. Here’s what’s new and how to install it in Ubuntu / Linux Mint. Handbrake 1.5 contains mainly bug-fixes, libraries and video ...
After more than half a year of development, the qBitTorrent app released version 4.4.0 with many new features and various bug-fixes. qBitTorrent 4.4.0 added Qt6 support. It offers better HiDPI compatibility for Windows 10+ and Linux using AppImage package. Though, ...
The third point release of Linux Mint 20 is out! Unlike Ubuntu, it has different code names for each point releases. And, Linux Mint 20.3 codenamed ‘Una’. The release still has Kernel 5.4 though user may install updated Ubuntu patched ...
Ubuntu’s default LibreOffice office suite 7.2.5 was released today. User may install it from the official PPA in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 21.04, Ubuntu 21.10 and Linux Mint 20.x LibreOffice 7.2.5 comes with 90 bug-fixes, including many crashes when ...
There are a few extensions (e.g., Dash-to-dock and Dash-to-panel) to change the Gnome Shell ‘Dash’ appearance and behavior. Here I’m going to introduce the new extension called “Dash from Panel“. GNOME Shell Dash: The ‘Dash’ is the bottom bar in ...
For those looking for a best looking Linux system, I would recommend Deepin and Zorin OS 16. And, I personally prefer the former one a bit more for the desktop appearance. Deepin is based on Debian. It’s great, but for ...