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KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Environment Enters Beta Testing with Many New Features

KDE Plasma 6.4 promises a major UI revamp for the Spectacle screenshot utility, support for per-virtual-desktop custom tile layouts, KWin-X11 easy to use, but flexible X window manager, and the Aurorae theme engine for KWin window decorations.

Arch Linux Installer Now Supports Labwc, Niri, and River Wayland Compositors

Archinstall 3.0.5 is here to add support for the Labwc Wayland window-stacking compositor, Niri scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor, River dynamic tiling Wayland compositor, and XMonad dynamically tiling X11 window manager that is written and configured in Haskell, as profiles.

You Can Now Upgrade Ubuntu 24.10 to Ubuntu 25.04, Here’s How

Ubuntu 24.10 was released on October 10th, 2024, and will be supported for a couple more months, until July 2025. Since this isn’t an LTS (Long Term Support) release, users might want to consider upgrading to Ubuntu 25.04 as soon as possible.

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Gopeed: A High-Speed Cross-Platform Download Manager

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 06, 2024

There are multiple download managers available, such as JDownloader, IDM, etc., in the download manager market, each with their own unique way of offering features and experiences to users.

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