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KDE Gear 25.12.1 Released with Various Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps

KDE Gear 25.12.1 is here with improvements for the KDE Itinerary travel assistant app, which now features an extractor for KLM’s “Ticket for your trip” emails, support for extracting GOMUS annual tickets, and an updated KLM boarding pass extractor to also extract the boarding group.

TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 16 Gen10 Linux Laptop Unveiled with New OLED Display

The highlight of the TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 16 Gen10 laptop is the new OLED display, which takes image quality to the next level with brilliant, high-contrast color reproduction, 2560×1600 pixels resolution, 500 nits of brightness, 100% DCI-P3 color gamut, and up to 300Hz refresh rate for high FPS gaming.

IPFire Linux Firewall Distro Adds Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 6 Support, LLDP and CDPv2

Highlights of the IPFire 2.29 Core Update 199 release include support for Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 6 wireless standards with the ability to select the preferred Wi-Fi mode, automatically detect and enable various capabilities on supported hardware, enablement of SSID Protection by default, the ability to convert multicast packets to unicast packets by default, and radar detection in the background.

Immutable Distro Nitrux 5.1 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS, New Tools

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.18 LTS kernel series with CachyOS patches, Nitrux 5.1 features the Hyprland 0.52.2 desktop with new key bindings, support for window blur, revamped Waybar with a modern floating “island” design, and an updated lock screen with a battery indicator and media player information.

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2026 could be the year of the (KDE) Linux desktop

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jan 07, 2026

Quoting: 2026 could be the year of the (KDE) Linux desktop —

It's high-time for a good Windows substitute to come along, and the default KDE Plasma desktop layout is traditional (compared to the likes of GNOME), not changing things too much from what you're probably used to in Windows 10. Still, Plasma looks modern and distinct, so the experience doesn't feel like a tired throwback or a cheap ripoff.

KDE is aware of the opportunity it has here, having embraced and extended the "End of 10" campaign in 2025. I'm looking forward to what kind of direct appeals to possible Windows migrants in 2026.

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