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The COSMIC Desktop environment, developed by System76 for Pop!_OS and increasingly adopted across other Linux distributions, just received a beautiful visual polish update. As of mid-January 2026, system-wide rounded corners and window shadows are now available across all applications —…

The inability to use Adobe Creative Cloud on Linux is often cited as a major barrier for many users considering a switch to the platform. But perhaps, just perhaps, there has already been a breakthrough in that direction. A community…

For nearly a decade, Let’s Encrypt has focused on domain-validated certificates because, frankly, that’s how humans find websites. Translating readable names into numeric addresses via the DNS gives site operators the flexibility to relocate infrastructure without requiring certificate updates every…

The first beta of KDE Plasma 6.6 has been released as a public preview of the desktop environment’s planned February 17 stable release. The changes are many, but here are the most important ones. Above all, this version includes three new…

Canonical has introduced Minimal Ubuntu Pro, a new class of Ubuntu cloud images that combines an ultra-small footprint with enterprise-grade security and long-term maintenance. The offering targets businesses running production workloads on public cloud platforms. What exactly are these images?…

Several years ago, KDE retired its bespoke display manager (KDM) in favor of SDDM. However, despite the community’s best efforts, SDDM’s architecture made it challenging to incorporate everything from advanced power management to specialized input methods. So, now looks like…

ProtonUp-Qt, an open-source GUI that streamlines the installation and updating of Proton-GE and Wine-based compatibility layers, enabling Linux gamers to run Windows-exclusive titles on their preferred distributions, has rolled out the brand-new 2.14 version. The key change in this release…