For most of us who used smartphones for any length of time before switching to Linux, learning how to download a lot of graphical applications on a Linux distro was quite a smooth process: just open the app icon that looks like an App Store, and what you see is
Let's start with Bottles, and then ease to OBS. Bottles is an application that allows you to run Windows software. It relies on Wine, thus the name, and it makes it easy to create environments with specific Windows prefixes, settings, and dependencies. It lets you select various components
Two years ago I was contacted by a company called MALIBAL. They were interested in a sponsorship, where I would simply put their link in the video description and get money for it. I did a quick background check, and they seemed like a proper Linux hardware manufacturing company. I
Let's take a step back. I decided to begin this story in 2019, during the Linux Security Summit. Developers Alex Gaynor and Geoffrey Thomas decided to hold a talk called Writing Linux Kernel Modules in Safe Rust. In it, they made the case for adopting Rust in the
Just a few years ago, Kdenlive - KDE's video editing program - launched a fundraiser. It wasn't just any fundraiser – but rather, one where the explained it detail exactly why they needed the money, and what they were going to do with them. Very quickly, they
Hi, and welcome back to the never-ending journey of finding Niccolò's perfect laptop. Sadly, I have not found it yet. But I have something that gets close to show you. This is the Lenovo Duet 5. It's out of stock, so don't rush to
I hadn't talked about this yet, but there has been work going on behind the scenes to completely revamp the KDE theming system. In this article I will cover how this new amazing setup works, and it does already work(-ish), plus what the future of KDE styles
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Hi, and welcome back to the never-ending journey of finding Niccolò's perfect laptop. Sadly, I have not found it yet. But I have something that gets close to show you. This is the Lenovo Duet 5. It's out of stock, so don't rush to
I hadn't talked about this yet, but there has been work going on behind the scenes to completely revamp the KDE theming system. In this article I will cover how this new amazing setup works, and it does already work(-ish), plus what the future of KDE styles
As you might have heard, Framework, the company behind highly-repairable and Linux-compatible laptops, has just made a new motherboard available for its main product, the Framework Laptop 13. Up to now, nothing crazy or out of the ordinary - Framework maintains their laptops well-supported and has a long history of
Just one hour ago - at the time of writing this, at least - news broke that China has announced retaliation against President Trump's imposed tariffs by launching an antitrust investigation on Google. The exact quote of the China government - according to, uh, Google Translate - is
I would like to take a moment to discuss Mozilla's money management. I have seen countless articles criticizing it, and possibly with merit, so let's dive in. Firstly, what we call "Mozilla" is three (or more) different entities. The topmost is the Mozilla Foundation,
It's finally that time again! The UI and Feature freeze for GNOME 48 is in effect, the Beta images are being prepared, and we're just in time to check out what's new. Subtle new features, invisible changes Trying out GNOME 48 absolutely feels like
The release of the next major version of KDE Plasma, 6.3, is currently scheduled to happen nine days from now. The beta version was released to the public already, to make sure that people tried it and found any bugs that were missed by the Plasma QA. You can
If you have been following the news as of late, you will have noticed there is an ongoing craze for ARM-based laptops: more of them are hitting the market, and several people seem to want one. But first, let's take a step back: what are they and why
You might have heard that GNOME 46, code-named "Kathmandu", is now out. It brings several changes that may be subtle, but are very welcome nevertheless. On top of the usual upgrades to polish and performance, this time we even get some interesting features that make GNOME more fit
Today I'd like to tell a story of extraordinary journalistic malpractice. This morning, whilst going to University, I was sent a post called "Is the GNOME Foundation Going to Go Bankrupt in 1 Year? It looks that way" – which is one hell of a claim. This
Sometimes it's … worrying how easy it is for Open Source projects to fall. Even those that are apparently solid, with a stable income and lots of users. You probably heard of the Simple Mobile Tools suite: they provide applications with million of downloads, they were able to sponsor
Chromium has long been the most popular browser. Not only is it what powers Google Chrome, by far the most widespread web browser, but also most others: if you use Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Samsung Browser and several others, you are indeed using Chromium. Today, Chromium-based browsers make up most