From wobbly windows to Windows running Linux, the Linux desktop has had one wild ride!

I tested nine Linux desktop environments to find out which ones offer the best balance of features, customization, ...

Growing up as a kid in the 1990s was an almost magical time. We had the best game consoles, increasingly faster computers at a pace not seen before, the rise of the Internet and World Wide Web, as ...

KDE Plasma 6.8 was officially released on October 14, 2026, but availability through Linux distributions depends on their individual packaging and testing schedules. KDE publishes the upstream source ...

Work on the KDE desktop environment began 30 years ago. The team is celebrating the anniversary with parties, a major ...

The gaming sector has played a pivotal role in Linux's rising popularity. Valve's Steam Deck, a handheld gaming device running on Linux-based SteamOS, has introduced a new audience to the capabilities ...

Linux Mint's Cinnamon, MATE, and XFCE are all different versions of the "desktop environment" for the same Linux Mint OS.

Linux has the technology to challenge Windows, but inconsistent desktop integration, hardware support, packaging, and updates ...

Check any list of ‘best Linux distributions’ and you can be confident that Ubuntu will be on it. There’s a good reason for that fact. Ubuntu is not only user-friendly, it’s also powerful, offers ...