The KDE desktop environment has seen significant recent success. Following record donations announced at the end of last year, another prominent member of the FOSS community has joined its list of patrons.

The KDE project announced that the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation, a nonprofit organization that stewards and governs the Rocky Linux project, the RHEL-based, community-driven enterprise Linux distro, is now supporting KDE’s development through the KDE e.V. patron program.

Whether it’s jokes about Snap packages or criticism of Canonical’s decisions, mocking Ubuntu often feels like the default attitude in parts of the Linux community.

To be fair, Canonical has made decisions over the years that have not always been well received, and some of the criticisms of Ubuntu and the direction it’s taken have their own merit. Yet, the derisive way Ubuntu is often talked about online isn’t particularly fair and, frankly, misses the point.

Linux Mint developers recently outlined their work on developing a new Wayland-compatible screensaver for use with their Cinnamon desktop environment. Linux Mint developers announced today that their new screensaver solution is ready for use.

Linux Mint developers announced in their monthly development recap that their new Wayland-compatible screensaver is ready. This new screensaver works on Wayland, provides a better experience between the desktop and screensaver, and is built into Cinnamon itself. There is a native look and smooth animation with this new solution and should nicely work with both X.Org and Wayland environments.

When you play either of these videos it's just a AI voice talking over someone just clicking around. The scripts are also so similar.

The internet is dying.

Nitrux developer Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 6.0, a major update to this Debian-based, systemd-free, and immutable GNU/Linux distribution.

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.19 kernel series with CachyOS patches, Nitrux 6.0 ships with the Hyprland 0.53.3 dynamic tiling Wayland compositor by default, which includes updated components like Hypr utilities, Hyprlock, Hyprpaper, Hypridle, and Hyprsysteminfo, as well as updated desktop configuration.

Nitrux 6.0 also introduces a modern and lightweight Wayland-native login screen called QMLGreet, a QML-based, Wayland-native on-screen display for keyboard shortcuts and system notifications called NudgeOSD, and a hypervisor orchestration utility for Nitrux called VxM.

For the past few months have been an ambitious proposal to replace FBCON with the user-space KMSCON as the default VT console starting on Fedora 44. Unfortunately, this and a few other features have now been delayed to the Fedora 45 release six months later.

Fedora 44 will no longer be aiming to switch over to KMSCON as the default VT console. The change proposal to replace the kernel console with this user-space solution has been diverted to being a Fedora 45 feature. Hopefully by October everything will be ready for Fedora Linux to lead the way with KMSCON usage by default.

Bazzite has a big new update available for your PC gaming handhelds and desktops with some major packaging upgrades to play with.

Unfortunately though, the initial roll-out came with a major problem. The 43.20260302 version had a bug that could cause "100% disk usage on gamemode specific images", but they've already rolled out 43.20260303 that fixes the problem.

There is two weeks to go until the GNOME 50 stable release while out today is the release candidate of Mutter 50. This Mutter 50.rc release brings some exciting last-minute enhancements to this Wayland compositor.

Mutter 50.rc brings great improvements for the NVIDIA R590 Linux driver usage, SDR-Native color mode support, various high dynamic range (HDR) improvements, screen sharing improvements, and more

UPDATE: I FOUND THE SOLUTION! After checking out the github repo, it turns out that I installed the theme in ~/.config/gtk-4.0 with a bunch of CSS files and an "assets" folder (I honestly forgot I did that haha!) so after deleting those the theme has been removed! Looks like if I want to install another theme I have to put in new CSS files.

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I have earlier used a theme when I used GNOME (a forest green one), but have switched to KDE Plasma (which I have set to a purpleish catppuccin theme) for a while now. Interestingly, the theme I set to GNOME has persisted for certain GTK apps (even after a distro hop, it's stored in the home directory I presume?).

How would I go about changing the GTK theme to a different one that matches better with my KDE theme?

edit: It looks like some GTK apps respect the system theme while others retain my old theme I used with GNOME (like GNOME Calendar, Rnote, and Pinta)

I will try installing a theme with the GTK themes menu and report back.

edit 2: After changing the theme to a different one and restarting, no luck for apps like Rnote and Pinta. Maybe the themes option from that menu don't work on some GTK apps? (the preview mentioned GTK3, does the option not affect GTK4 apps maybe? I have no idea)

The Armbian team released Armbian 26.2 today as a major update to this Debian/Ubuntu-based distribution and build framework for ARM devices, enhancing performance, security, and hardware compatibility.

Coming three months after Armbian 25.11, the Armbian 26.2 release adds support for new ARM boards and chips, including SpacemiT MusePi Pro, Radxa Rock 4D, Orangepi RV2, OrangePi 4A, Odroid M2, Lamobo R1, Khadas Mind, Orange Pi 6 Plus, Minisforum MS-R1, NuMaker-IoT-MA35D1-A1, SpacemiT MUSE Book, Friendlyelec NanoPi Zero2, DG SVR 865 Tiny, and Radxa E24C.

Armbian 26.2 also introduces board-level extension to mask Wayland desktop sessions, Cinnamon desktop builds for UEFI, GNOME desktop builds for stable targets, edge branch support to community targets, support for KDE Neon desktop builds, RISC-V Xfce desktop support, and support for Linux kernel 6.18 LTS on stable targets, while the latest Linux 6.19 kernel is now supported on the edge branch.

If you're tired of the modern internet, then why not dial back to the 1990s? One nostalgic developer has recreated the pinnacle of early Linux operating systems with the so-called CDE Time Capsule. Posted as an open-source project on GitHub under the GPL license, but accessible via its own website, the project has faithfully recreated the appearance of a Debian Linux installation, circa 1994.

You might be interested in this post if you are curious about Linux authentication, don’t know what a TPM actually does, or are interested in the security / UX of Linux desktops.

Or if you wanna use a TPM2-backed PIN to unlock your desktop for some reason.

I’ll talk about PAM generally, explain my motivation for making new PAM modules, and explain some details that I wished were more accessible during my journey to understand how the frick to actually use the TPM.

AI assistance was NOT used in the generation of this blog post. I don’t expect you to read something I couldn’t be bothered to write.