You can download Chrome for Linux, and you can download Chrome for Arm devices – but if you’ve got a computer running Linux on Arm, not so much! Now, Google says it’s finally bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux machines in Q2 2026, following Chrome for Arm Macs in 2020 and Chrome for Windows on Arm…
Running modern versions of Adobe Photoshop on Linux has long been difficult, mainly because the installation process depends on Adobe Creative Cloud, which has historically failed to work properly through Wine. That situation may now be changing. According to a recent update shared by an independent developer known as PhialsBasement, Photoshop 2021 and 2025 can…
A set of recent changes to Wine could remove one of Linux’s longest-standing software roadblocks. A developer working under the name PhialsBasement has introduced patches that allow Adobe Creative Cloud to install on Linux, making it possible to run Adobe Photoshop through Wine. The work targets failures that have historically stopped Adobe’s installer from running…
Older PCs that struggle with modern versions of Windows often remain fully usable with Linux. Systems that run hot, idle with high CPU usage, or consume several gigabytes of memory under Windows can become quiet and responsive again after switching to a lightweight Linux distribution. This is not limited to very old hardware. Machines that…
KDE has announced that it will go Wayland-only in a future release of Plasma Desktop. It will not support X11 sessions from 2027. KDE Plasma 6, which was released in February 2024, switched from X11 to enable Wayland as the default display server. Initially, the developers did not plan to remove X11/Kwin before Plasma 7,…
The next iteration of Linux Mint is going to make some interesting changes to the user experience, including a redesigned Start Menu for Cinnamon. Clement Lefebvre, aka Clem, the project and development team leader of the distro has published some details about the upcoming features. This is what the Cinnamon Menu applet, or the Start…
Fedora Linux 43 has been released. Let’s take a look at the new features in it. Anaconda WebUI, which was introduced as the new default installer in Fedora Workstation 42, is now the default in Fedora 43 spins. Here’s what it looks like. It replaces the old GTK installer. Fedora 43 brings RPM 6.0 package…
Xubuntu’s website was the latest to fall victim to hackers. The attackers replaced the download links with a malicious one. For those unaware, Xubuntu is one of the official flavors of Ubuntu, i.e. a fork/derivate of the distro. The name is a portmanteau of Xfce and Ubuntu. Anyway, from what I can tell from user…
Canonical has released Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka. There are a couple of important changes in this release. Ubuntu 25.10 comes with the GNOME 49 desktop environment, making Wayland session the only option available for users. It does not support X11/Xorg sessions. Ubuntu 25.10 ships with Linux kernel 6.17, based on 6.17-RC7. It includes Mesa 25.2.3…
The first beta of Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 has been released. LMDE 7 has the codename Gigi. (Image courtesy: Linux Mint) It is based on Debian 13 Trixie. A few days ago, I wrote about LMDE 7 dropping support for 32-bit computers, it is 64-bit only, because i386 is no longer fully supported upstream…
