GNOME desktop environment is becoming less customizable with each update. Even after the release of GTK-4, this move has been controversial among many users, as it is quite restrictive when you want to apply a custom theming to your desktop. One such move was that if you pin an app to the dock at the
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Heroic Games Launcher is an open-source tool designed to optimize your gaming experience by allowing you to install and play games from your GOG and Epic Games Store Library. It is cross-platform and is available on Windows as well as macOS along with Linux. It uses the command line based Legendary launcher in the background
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There are many game launchers available for the Linux Desktop right now, including Heroic, Lutris, and Bottles etc. all with a different set of features. Lutris attempts to unify the GOG, Itch, Steam and Epic games and on the other hand Heroic unifies GOG and Epic Games at one place. Bottles is mostly used to
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The GNOME desktop environment, version 40 onwards, offers a gesture support on Laptops which have touchpads. These gestures include a three finger horizontal swipe to change workspaces and a three finger vertical swipe to open either the search menu or the application grid. However, these gestures are only available to you on the Wayland session,
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Signal is a fully open-source end-to-end encrypted messaging application which is available on every platform, be it Android, Windows, macOS, or Linux. Although this application existed for a long time (launched in 2014), it gained a lot of popularity in 2022 when WhatsApp changed its privacy policy to be more invasive. It is very secure
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Foliate is a lightweight and open-source e-book reader application written in the GTK framework and supports multiple book formats such as EPUB, Kindle (azw), Comic books (cbr, cbz etc.) as well as plain texts. It offers you a Library view and a catalogs tab from where you can download books as well from websites like
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If you are using your Linux machine along with any display having resolution higher than 720p, then chances are that every artifact such as icons or buttons either looks too small or too large. This is because Fractional scaling has been missing from Linux desktops from quite some time. The previous X11 display server didn’t
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Your Desktop is the first thing you encounter when you turn on your system, and you see things like your wallpaper and desktop icons if you have placed any. Wallpapers and themes can change the entire look of your desktop, and hence you should carefully choose both of them. Wallpaper Engine is a windows only
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According to the Steam Hardware and software survey, Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS is used by 11.74% of all the Linux gamers. And it just stands at the first place among all the Linux distributions when it comes to Linux desktops (Although overall it stands at the 2nd place because of the Steam Deck which has 22.08%
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Guake is a unique open-source dropdown terminal application written in Python and C language, which is made for the GNOME desktop environment. It’s style of window is based on a First-Person Shooter (FPS) game named Quake (which slides down from the top when you press the F12 key), and it prioritizes ease of reaching the
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