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KDE Plasma 6.7 will have a global push-to-talk feature

Liam Dawe — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:06:40 +0000

KDE Plasma is set to gain even more useful features with the upcoming Plasma 6.7 release, one especially good for online gaming.

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Budgie 10.10 finally makes the Wayland jump as development moves to Budgie 11

Liam Dawe — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:03:44 +0000

Budgie may not be one of the most popular desktop environments on Linux but it is an interesting one, and with Budgie 10.10 it finally migrated to Wayland.

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KDE Plasma 6.6 will finally stop the system sleeping when gaming with a controller

Liam Dawe — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:24:45 +0000

Finally! One of the most annoying issues is your system going to sleep while gaming with a controller, and KDE Plasma 6.6 will solve it.

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Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with the COSMIC Desktop Environment is out now

Liam Dawe — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:47:53 +0000

System76 have today finally released Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with the newly launched COSMIC Desktop Environment.

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KDE's 2025 fundraising has been a huge success

Liam Dawe — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:11:58 +0000

Absolutely smashing their goals, the KDE team have managed to have a huge success for the 2025 fundraiser that's currently ongoing.

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KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely

Liam Dawe — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:15:25 +0000

It was only a matter of time but it's nearly upon us - KDE Plasma with version 6.8 will be entirely dropping the X11 session to go full Wayland.

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KDE Plasma 6.6 to get a great new feature - limit virtual desktops to the primary screen

Liam Dawe — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:56:39 +0000

The work never ends to improve the KDE Plasma desktop environment for Linux, and with Plasma 6.6 a fun new feature is coming to tweak virtual desktops.

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KDE Plasma 6.5 is out now with a number of highly-requested features

Liam Dawe — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:17:19 +0000

The next big KDE Plasma release is here with Plasma 6.5 delivering a number of major new features, as the KDE team begin to show a lot more confidence.

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KDE's 29th anniversary is here and they need your funding

Liam Dawe — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:18:30 +0000

KDE, the free software community that develops the likes of the KDE Plasma desktop, has turned 29 years old and they're doing a fresh fund-raiser.

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System76 COSMIC desktop Beta and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta now available

Liam Dawe — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:54:38 +0000

Two huge bits of news from System76, as they've released a Beta for both the new COSMIC desktop and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS bringing lots of goodies.

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GNOME 49 released with new video player, document viewer, improved app store and disabled X11 session

Liam Dawe — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:24:31 +0000

GNOME 49 "Brescia" has been officially released today with improvements big and small across this popular Linux desktop environment.

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KDE Plasma 6.5 gains an OEM ready system setup tool and KDE Linux is progressing

Liam Dawe — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:10:06 +0000

The next release of KDE Plasma is due in October and the developers have been working non-stop on some great new features for the popular desktop.

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KDE devs disable potentially seizure inducing Plasma effect as accessibility work continues

Liam Dawe — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:04:50 +0000

The KDE developers are working towards making the Plasma desktop environment more accessible, with an essential tweak to the defaults.

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KDE Plasma will continue having an X11 session, as Kubuntu switches to Wayland by default

Liam Dawe — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:58:32 +0000

KDE developers confirm Plasma will continue having a maintained X11 session, and now we know Kubuntu will be Wayland by default.

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KDE Plasma 6.4 brings improvements for accessibility, colour rendering, tablet support and more

Liam Dawe — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:52:44 +0000

KDE Plasma 6.4 has arrived bringing lots of modern enhancements to my favourite Linux desktop environment, and what's used on SteamOS / Steam Deck Desktop Mode.

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System76 COSMIC Alpha 7 is out with new accessibility features, global shortcuts and more

Liam Dawe — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:15:23 +0000

System76 continue building up their desktop environment COSMIC, with a 7th Alpha release now available for testing built on top of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS alpha.

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KDE Plasma 6.3.4 fixes 'the most common Plasma crash', now down to zero very high priority bugs

Liam Dawe — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 11:21:33 +0000

Work on the KDE Plasma desktop sounds like it continues to go very well, with some really important bug fixes arriving to make the experience a lot nicer. My favourite Linux desktop environment and what powers the Desktop Mode on Steam Deck.

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KDE Plasma 6.3 is out now with big fractional scaling improvements, drawing tablet upgrades and more

Liam Dawe — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:33:51 +0000

KDE Plasma 6.3 has been released and it's another beautiful sounding release! Filled with new features and fixes for my favourite Linux desktop environment. Plasma is also used on the Steam Deck for the Desktop Mode.

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System76's COSMIC Alpha 5 is here with a new media player, VRR improvements and lots of fixes

Liam Dawe — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 11:55:02 +0000

Hardware vendor System76 continue building up their new Linux desktop environment, COSMIC, with a fifth alpha now available for testing.

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KDE Plasma 6.3 will have much better fractional scaling

Liam Dawe — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:58:53 +0000

The KDE team continuing building up the next version of the popular KDE Plasma desktop environment, with Plasma 6.3.0 getting some great additions.

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Xfce 4.20 desktop released with experimental Wayland support

Liam Dawe — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:23:02 +0000

After two years of work the Xfce team have release Xfce 4.20 which amongst many other things, now has very experimental Wayland support.

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Linux Mint partners up with Framework, also working on Night Light for Cinnamon desktop

Liam Dawe — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:48:13 +0000

Some fun Linux distro news for you this morning as the Linux Mint team have a fresh blog post up on what they've been doing and it's quite exciting to see.

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KDE Plasma 6.2 released with improved Wayland colour management

Liam Dawe — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 11:08:41 +0000

The KDE team have today released the Plasma 6.2 desktop environment bringing with it a "friendlier, more accessible and smarter environment".

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System76 release COSMIC Alpha 2

Liam Dawe — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:58:32 +0000

System76 are continuing to expand and improve their new Linux desktop environment, COSMIC, with a second Alpha release now available for testing.

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GNOME 47 'Denver' released with Accent Colours and various System Enhancements

Liam Dawe — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:07:07 +0000

The latest update to the GNOME desktop environment has been released, with GNOME 47 bringing some really quite lovely sounding improvements.

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KDE Plasma 6.2 Beta released and Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 out now

Liam Dawe — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:05:39 +0000

Time for a little testing over the weekend, as the KDE team have released Plasma 6.2 Beta along with updated Plasma Wayland Protocols.

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System76 desktop environment COSMIC alpha now available to try

Liam Dawe — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:49:47 +0000

System76 have today released the first alpha preview for you to try out COSMIC, their brand new home-grown desktop environment.

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COSMIC Alpha coming in July - System76 reveal branding, a big hardware sale with new merch

Liam Dawe — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:42:15 +0000

System76 are making a bit of a splash today, ahead of the Alpha release of their new desktop environment named COSMIC.

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Plasma 6.1 released with Explicit Sync, Triple Buffering for Wayland and much more

Liam Dawe — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:47:47 +0000

KDE Plasma 6.1 has been released today bringing with it plenty of exciting new features, some big and some small but there's plenty to enjoy.

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KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta released with Wayland Explicit Sync support

Liam Dawe — Fri, 24 May 2024 18:46:37 +0000

Time for testing, especially for those of you with an NVIDIA GPU as the KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta is now live with some new features.

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KDE Plasma 6.1 will be able to sync keyboard RGB to your chosen accent colour

Liam Dawe — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 08:34:46 +0000

More work is ongoing for the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.1 release, and there's some fun stuff being added like the ability to sync your keyboard RGB lighting up to your Plasma accent colouring.

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KDE Plasma app Ark gets support for self-extracting .exe archive files

Liam Dawe — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:46:37 +0000

In another of their regular update blog posts, KDE's Nate Graham has highlighted some recent new KDE Plasma features coming soon to the desktop.

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3rd party KDE Plasma Global Themes and Widgets can lead to data loss

Liam Dawe — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:17:08 +0000

Uh oh. Seems there's been an issue lately with Global Themes for KDE, which has ended up causing a total wipe of data.

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GNOME 46 is out now with experimental variable refresh rate (VRR) support

Liam Dawe — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:54:59 +0000

The release many GNOME fans have been waiting for is here and it's looking really fancy. GNOME 46 available now brings on experimental variable refresh rate (VRR) support. There's masses more of course!

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System76 refresh the Adder WS laptop, plus COSMIC desktop Alpha in May

Liam Dawe — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:17:30 +0000

Some exciting news for System76 fans here as not only have they now released the powerful refresh of the Adder WS laptop, but their COSMIC desktop environment is also approaching an Alpha release.

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Plasma 6 lands in Arch Linux, KDE neon teething issues and Plasma 6.1 heating up

Liam Dawe — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:45:53 +0000

The dust is starting to settle now the huge KDE Plasma 6 release is out in the wild, with it beginning to land for more distributions but there's been some issues.

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GNOME pulls in experimental variable refresh rate (VRR) support for GNOME 46

Liam Dawe — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 12:09:36 +0000

After years of waiting, experimental support for variable refresh rate (VRR) has landed for GNOME, and thankfully it will be in the GNOME 46 release.

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The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released

Liam Dawe — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:56:15 +0000

The KDE team announced "MegaRelease 6", a big upgrade that includes Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 and Gear 24.02 with tons of improvements to this popular desktop environment that's used on the Steam Deck for Desktop Mode.

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KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 2 is available for testing

Liam Dawe — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:29:07 +0000

Getting exciting now! We're closing in on the final release of KDE Plasma 6.0 with a second Beta now available for testing to ensure it's ready for your Linux desktops and eventually Steam Deck too.

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HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 seems to be shaping up nicely

Liam Dawe — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 12:44:33 +0000

While it's far from finished, and still needs some manual effort to get properly working, HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 has made great progress.

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KDE Plasma 6 - Beta 1 released

Liam Dawe — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 14:04:20 +0000

The KDE team continue sprinting towards to finish line of the Plasma 6 release next year, with a Beta release now available for the popular Linux desktop environment which is also used on Steam Deck.

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Plasma 6 full steam ahead with only one showstopper left for Wayland by default

Liam Dawe — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:23:35 +0000

As the KDE team continue working full steam ahead towards Plasma 6, they're now down to a single showstopping bug for having Wayland by default.

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KDE Plasma 6 goes Wayland by default, initial HDR gaming support

Liam Dawe — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:38:16 +0000

In another update on the progress of the upcoming KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment release, there's some fun details from Nate Graham.

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KDE Plasma 6 gets a first Alpha release

Liam Dawe — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:42:08 +0000

Nearly 10 years after KDE Plasma 5.0, the launch of KDE Plasma 6.0 is approaching and a first "Megarelease - Alpha" is out now for testing.

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GNOME 45 released with dynamic workspace indicator, camera indicator and much more

Liam Dawe — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 19:48:17 +0000

GNOME 45 has just been released and overall it looks like a rather nice release for this desktop environment, so here's a short run over what's new.

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Plasma 6 optimized for Wayland gaming, plus compositor crash recovery

Liam Dawe — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:03:00 +0000

KDE developer Nate Graham has two quite interesting updates in regards to the upcoming Plasma 6 desktop release, including some fun optimizations landing.

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KDE Plasma 6 to launch in February 2024

Liam Dawe — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:30:55 +0000

They've finally set a date! The big release of the KDE Plasma 6 desktop is now set to launch in February 2024.

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Budgie 10.8 desktop released with plenty of new features

Liam Dawe — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:50:13 +0000

Budgie 10.8 was released recently, bringing plenty of enhancements to this interesting desktop environment so here's a little run over what's new.

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COSMIC desktop from System76 coming along nicely

Liam Dawe — Mon, 15 May 2023 09:20:22 +0000

System76 are busy hacking away on their new upcoming COSMIC desktop environment, and their latest development blog post is looking good.

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GNOME 44 is out now finally adding thumbnails to the file picker

Liam Dawe — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 15:32:09 +0000

One thing I genuinely hated about GNOME has finally been solved with the GNOME 44 release. It includes some big improvements and new features.

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