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GNOME is Planning to Drop X.Org. Is it too soon to bid farewell?

Arindam — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 10:57:13 +0000

Delve into the ongoing X.Org vs Wayland debate and the complexities of the balancing act to drop a two-decade-old software.

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Unix History: A Mighty Origin Story

Arindam — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:32:18 +0000

A brief walk down memory lane about Unix and its beginning. Unix: The origin story The world today runs on Linux. Billions of mobile phones and servers today run Linux. But before Linux, there was Unix, and without it, Linux would not have existed today. Unix’s origin can be traced back to the moon landing...

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Cutefish OS Halts Development and Its Future is Uncertain

Arindam — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 06:18:56 +0000

The famous Cutefish OS, with its Cutefish Desktop development, apparently stopped, which is evident from the GitHub commit history. Cutefish OS Halts Development A few months back, we reviewed the emerging Linux distribution Cutefish OS which comes with its own desktop environment (Cutefish DE). The look and feel, the way it was built from the...

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GNOME Shell for Mobile: A Promising Start with Huge Expectations [Opinion]

Arindam — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 09:59:59 +0000

The GNOME devs gave ideas about porting GNOME Shell entirely to a mobile phone in a recent blog post. Here are some insights about the project. GNOME Shell for Mobile Phones GNOME as a desktop environment evolved over the last decade to become GNOME 40. The GNOME 40 was a significant release that changed the...

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Is this the End of the road for elementary OS?

Arindam — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 07:36:41 +0000

Cassidy James, the founder of elementary OS, has resigned from his role as per his recent note. Here’s our take on this topic with possible future. When elementary OS was first released a decade back, it was a radical step in the Linux Desktop space. Cassidy had a vision that the developers and contributors since,...

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KDE Plasma Introduces GNOME-like Overview. Is it Good?

Arindam — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 07:56:49 +0000

We give you a preview of the new KDE Plasma Overview Effect. Here’s how it looks, and our opinion around it. Some interesting changes are planned as of writing this post for the KDE Plasma 5.24 release. One of the important update is the new way of looking at your Plasma Activities and Virtual Desktops....

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WSL is now Available as an App via Windows Store. But why?

Arindam — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 05:52:11 +0000

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is reconfigured by Microsoft to be deployed by Windows store as an app. We investigate the reason behind this move in this article. Recently Microsoft announced that the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is available via Windows Store as a preview. That means, you can directly download and install without...

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Solus Team Plans to Exit GTK and Adopt Enlightenment Desktop (EFL)

Arindam — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 07:14:59 +0000

The unique Solus Linux project plans not to invest time and effort to GNOME desktop, instead looking ahead with Enlightenment Desktop. In a recent blog post from Joshua Strobl (Solus Experience Lead) announced this decision. On the post he outlined a number of issues and concerns related to GNOME development philosophy, GTK development plans which...

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Windows 11 System Requirement is Turning Heads. Time to migrate to Linux?

Arindam — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 04:27:36 +0000

Microsoft announced Windows 11 at the official online event. Here’s in this post we brief the Windows 11 system requirement and give you thinking points on whether you should permanently migrate to Linux. There are many debates and discussions going around after the announcement of Windows 11 from Microsoft. Many are “blown away” by the...

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Windows 11 Look Inspired by KDE Plasma and GNOME?

Arindam — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 06:27:13 +0000

The images of the upcoming Windows 11 Operating system from Microsoft resemble a mixture of our beloved KDE Plasma and GNOME. How much they are similar? We try to find out. There’s a saying which I remember – ‘Good artists copy. Great artists steal‘. I don’t know the design team behind Windows 11, but it...

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Chromium Losing Google Private API Support Soon [Options and Way Forward]

Arindam — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 06:40:23 +0000

Browser wars never seem to end. Now it’s the turn for Google Chrome. In case you are not aware, Google recently informed that they are shutting down private API support in all Chromium-based web browser on March 2021. And things about to get more interesting and confusing for average Bob out there on what’s it...

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Should Ubuntu Adopt KDE Plasma as Default Desktop? [Opinion and Analysis]

Arindam — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 08:34:39 +0000

With the recent GNOME 40 design change and Ubuntu decides to follow the “wait-and-watch” principle for its adaptation, we analyze whether Ubuntu should adopt KDE Plasma as its Default Desktop, saying goodbye to GNOME. Ubuntu operating system is probably the most used and popular Linux distribution today. We can not deny the fact that, whatever...

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