News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
For NVIDIA users who want to enable hardware acceleration for Firefox video playback, NVIDIA VA-API driver released v0.0.14 few days ago with improved compatibility and various fixes.
As you may know, Firefox in Linux does NOT support NVDEC (NVIDIA Video Decoder) to accelerate video decoding. As a workaround, user may use the free open-source nvidia-vaapi-driver as VA-API implementation that uses NVDEC as a backend.
Warehouse, the popular Flatpak app management software, released new 2.1.0 version today!
Warehouse is a free open-source application that provides a simple user interface to manage all installed Flatpak apps. With it, you may view app info, change app version (upgrade/downgrade), manage user data and left overs.
To follow the upstream GNOME’s road-map, Ubuntu confirmed to remove the classic X11/Xorg session in the next Ubuntu 25.10 release!
GNOME development team is planning to disable X11 session by default in next GNOME 49 and remove the code in v50.
TLDR: The X11 session for GNOME 49 will be disabled by default and it’s scheduled for removal, either during this development cycle or more likely during the next one (GNOME 50).
As you may know, GIMP provides official Linux packages through Flatpak and AppImage. The Flatpak package however does NOT automatically switch app color to light or dark depends on system color scheme.
That’s because Flatpak is running in sandbox environment. The sandbox isolation enhances security and makes easy to distribute newer software releases without worrying about dependency issue. However, it has limited access to host resources causing issues, including theming.
QDiskInfo, the free open-source S.M.A.R.T. utility, released new 0.4 version in last week!
For those who don’t know about QDiskInfo, it’s a frontend for smartctl to control and monitor SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) Disks, such as SATA and NVMe SSD.
Foobar2000 fans? Here’s a similar music player designed for Linux with KDE Plasma, LxQt, etc Qt based desktop environments.
As you may know, Foobar2000 does not support Linux, but it can be installed through Wine. And, Ubuntu users can search & install the wine based version of the music player (unofficial) in App Center (or Ubuntu Software) through Snap package which runs in sandbox environment.
Fooyin Music Player
Dolphin, the free open-source emulator for GameCude and Wii games, released new 2506 version (and 2506a with quick-fix for Android)!
The release introduced new audio system to workaround hitching or shuttering issue, improved frame pacing, and added ability to render game output beyond 60 FPS.
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Audacious audio player announced the 4.5 beta release few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu using PPA.
The new release of this lightweight free open-source XMMS fork added new plugins, new lyrics provider, fixed various bugs, and improved PipeWire output support.
Looking for an app to quickly edit your images or screenshots for social media, blog posts, or websites? Here’s a new app to do the job in Linux Desktop.
It’s Gradia, a free and open-source tool written mostly in Python programming language, and uses GTK4 and LibAdwaita for its modern user interface that well integrated with GNOME Desktop.
For those who are interested in the next Ubuntu 25.10 release, the first snapshot of the development version is available to download for testing on desktop, server, WSL.
Ubuntu introduced new monthly snapshot releases policy few days ago. And, the first snapshot for Ubuntu 25.10 is out available to download for all supported platforms.
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