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Application Launchers

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Application Launchers

December 15, 2022 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Software, Utilities

Application launchers play an integral part in making the Linux desktop a more productive environment to work and play.

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Desktop

Best Free and Open Source Software – Desktop

June 30, 2022 Steve Emms Desktop, Software

Best Free and Open Source Linux Software covering desktop environments, KDE plasma widgets, GNOME extensions, window managers, and docks.

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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Extend your Desktop – Part 22

June 8, 2022 Steve Emms Beginners, Software

We look at a couple of ways you can extend your GNOME desktop. We first cover extensions before moving on to exploring themes.

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GNOME Extensions

36 Excellent GNOME Desktop Extensions (Updated 2022)

April 4, 2022 Steve Emms Desktop, Productivity, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Add additional functionality to a GNOME desktop with these great GNOME extensions. This roundup showcases 36 excellent GNOME extensions.

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Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Managing Users – Part 15

August 31, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, CLI, Desktop

We investigate how to manage users using both the GUI and the command-line. This article is part of the Linux for Starters Guide.

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Learning

Linux for Starters: Your Guide to Linux – Navigating the Desktop – Part 6

June 21, 2021 Steve Emms Beginners, Desktop

This article guides you around the desktop in Ubuntu. It’s part of our Linux for Starters series teaching you all the basics.

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Now and Then - Lean Desktop Environments

Now and Then: The Development of 6 Lean Desktop Environments

October 11, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Software

Back in early 2008, we published a feature recommending the best 6 lean desktop environments. How did they fare?

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: XDecorations – Holiday lights and more

October 9, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

XDecorations is a small utility that lets you add decorations to your desktop. It’s our latest addition to the fun Linux Candy series.

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RPI4 - Surfing the internet

Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Web Browsing – Week 4

November 13, 2019 Luke Baker Blog, Desktop

This week’s blog focuses on an absolutely essential desktop activity. Surfing the web. A web browser is the quintessential desktop application. Everyone needs one, and there is not a desktop Linux distribution around that does not make a web browser available.

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KSmoothDock-parabolic

KSmoothDock – excellent KDE Plasma 5 desktop panel with parabolic zooming

March 6, 2019 John O'Donnell Desktop, Reviews, Software

KSmoothDock is a cool desktop panel with parabolic zooming effect for KDE Plasma 5. While visually it is inspired by Mac OS X’s Dock, it aims to follow the traditional Linux model of desktop panel with the application menu, launchers, the pager, the task manager, the system tray and the clock.

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