Git behaves the same on every operating system. The clients built around it do not. Fork, Tower, and Sourcetree have no Linux version, and GitHub Desktop has no official Linux build either, so many popular Git GUI roundups are only half useful on a Linux desktop. This guide covers what […]
Monthly Archives: October 2026
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Linux has no graphical SQL client of its own. Every GUI you can install comes from a third party, and several of them started on Windows or macOS. Some run well on Linux. Others lean on Wine, fight your distro or ship a Linux build that trails the rest. This […]
Update, November 2, 2026: Collabora published a statement on October 28 responding to coverage of the pilot. We’ve added its account, plus what the ministry and Denmark’s current and former digital ministers have said about how the pilot ended, and we’ve reworded a few places so the pilot’s status is […]
Linus Torvalds does not do subtle. When Laurent Pinchart argued on the kernel mailing list that the Linux kernel still needs a way to set expectations around AI-assisted patches, Torvalds told him to stop using compilers and write his submissions in assembler. He added that Pinchart should skip the text […]
A Western University professor wants Canada to stop depending on Microsoft for government desktops and build a national Linux distribution instead. In a paper published online October 6 in Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, Joshua M. Pearce argues that a Debian-based operating system maintained by a Canadian public body could […]
Epic Games confirmed on October 14, 2026 that Fortnite is coming to Linux. Getting there requires a rebuilt anti-cheat called EAC Linux v2, and it arrives with a long list of conditions: Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, a signed kernel, kernel lockdown and more. Epic hasn’t announced a release date. The […]
Your Linux desktop already has a way to open apps, and it is probably slower than it needs to be. A good app launcher cuts the routine down to three moves: press a key, type a few letters, hit Enter. The better ones also do math, search files, switch windows, […]
Every Linux system boots the same way. The kernel starts, mounts the root filesystem and launches one program: the init system. Everything else on your machine, from the network stack to your desktop, runs because init started it. Most distros ship systemd, and most people never think about it again. […]
XFCE is the desktop you land on when GNOME and KDE Plasma start to feel like too much. It boots fast, rarely breaks, and runs well on hardware that chokes on heavier desktops. But XFCE is only half the story. The distro underneath decides how fresh your software is, how […]
Copy a command, copy a URL, then reach back for the command. Gone. The Linux clipboard holds one item, and the next Ctrl + C replaces it. KDE Plasma is the notable exception because it ships with Klipper. Most other desktops, GNOME included, do not come with a clipboard history. […]