i3 is the most famous tiling window manager designed for X11 and all the Linux people met him at least once in their life. It is fully configurable and it handles dynamically tiling, stacking, and tabbing layouts. But the use of i3, or of another tiling window manager, for everyday use, is not for all. It is not easy at[…]
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Bliss OS. Android for your x86 personal computer
The project is an Android fork that aims to bring the beauty and the power of the phone/tablet system to the modern desktop and laptop PC. The ‘build’ and ‘alpha’ words should suffice to make you understand that it is absolutely not a software ready for everyday use. Better to abstain, especially if you don’t actually intend to develop –[…]
Read moreTheming Linux desktop environments like an artist
You know, one of the best things about Linux is the possibility of customization. You can effectively change everything of the operating system: the only limit is your fantasy. Compared to closed systems like macOS or Windows, Linux is completely customizable without any effort, you don’t have to hack anything, it’s all open and available to be modified, improved, reinterpreted.[…]
Read moreKDE Plasma 5.17.3 – It’s another KDE Plasma update!
The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 5.17.3. This is the third maintenance update added to the famous desktop environment and it brings bugs and issues fixes, also newly updated translations. Plasma 5.17 was released in October 2019 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds new translations and bugfixes, including: An improved[…]
Read moreA faster desktop environment. Ubuntu 19.10 and the renaissance of GNOME
GNOME is one of the most loved/hated desktop environment. Its history starts a long time ago and its community is incredibly big: GNOME is one of the most modern DE but due to features and poor optimization, it has often given the fast experience of lighter DEs like LXDE, Mate, or XFCE. Those DEs made the system much more responsive[…]
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