Year of the Linux Desktop: Linus Says Chromebooks and Android Are the Future
August 10, 2025 No Comments
Since at least 1998, the Linux community has been declaring “this will be the Year of the Linux Desktop.” Twenty-seven years later, we’re still waiting. Meanwhile, something interesting happened that
Nobara Linux 39
January 1, 2024 No Comments
Nobara Linux was first released on 7/10/2022, obviously quite new, and it is being developed & maintained by Thomas Crider ‘GloriousEggroll’ – a “Software Maintenance Engineer @ Red Hat. Wine-Staging
Ultramarine Linux 39 – ‘Based on Fedora®’
November 26, 2023 No Comments
Fairly new Linux Distro, and second time I tested it. Very easy to use. Desktop Options are Budgie Desktop (Flagship), GNOME, Pantheon (elementary OS), and KDE Plasma Desktop (my favorite).
Alpine Linux 3.18.4 – Small. Simple. Secure.
October 7, 2023 No Comments
Alpine Linux caught my eye the other day, in this article: Looney Tunables: New Linux Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation on Major Distributions. Other major Linuxes were found to be vulnerable
Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma 22.1.0 – “Plasma is a Desktop”
April 24, 2023 No Comments
Cinnamon is my favorite Linux desktop environment (DE), but the Cinnamon DE of Manjaro is a “Community” project ‘n hasn’t remained as steady of an OS as I prefer. At
OpenMandriva ROME 23.03
April 2, 2023 No Comments
OpenMandriva ROME 23.03 — ‘is the rolling release published by the OpenMandriva Association. ROME is designed for individual users and will have more up to date software‘. OpenMandriva had been