KDE and GNOME Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 23, 2025

• K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

  • Symless Becomes KDE's Supporter

    Symless is the latest company to officially help fund KDE.

  • Games

    • Linuxiac ☛ ProtonUp-Qt v2.14 Brings New Proton-EM Compatibility Tool

      ProtonUp-Qt 2.14 adds Proton-EM support, drops NorthStar tool, and improves compatibility for Steam, Lutris, and Heroic users.

• GNOME Desktop/GTK

  • Sam Thursfield: Status update, 22/09/2025

    For the first time in many years I can talk publicly about what I’m doing at work: a short engagement funded by Endless and Codethink to rebuild Endless OS as a GNOME OS derivative, instead of a Debian derivative.

    There is nothing wrong with Debian, of course, just that today GNOME OS aligns more closely with the direction the Endless OS team want to go in. A lot of the innovations from earlier versions of Endless OS over the last decade were copied and re-used in GNOME OS, so in a sense this is work coming full circle.

    I’ll tell you a bit more about the project but first I have a rant about complexity.