News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Dash to Panel, the popular Gnome Shell extension, updated few days ago with support for GNOME desktop 49.
Meaning you can now install it on Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora Workstation 43, and Arch etc Linux distributions to combine the top-bar and dash into single highly customizable task-bar.
GNOME 49 with Dash to Panel, plus ArcMenu
Visual Studio Code 1.104, the August release of Microsoft’s code editor, was released few days ago.
The new release introduced Auto AI model selection support (Preview feature), allowing to automatically choose between Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-5, GPT-5 mini, and GPT-4.1 models, to get the optimal performance and reduce rate limits.
For user with NVIDIA graphics card, Ubuntu finally added official NVIDIA 580 driver packages for all current Ubuntu releases.
As you may know, NVIDIA 580 is so far the latest driver series for Linux, that was initially released one month ago. It’s a production branch driver qualified for enterprise and data center GPU use.
For GNOME users who don’t like the default workspace switch animation, here’s an extension that can help!
When switching workspace (virtual desktop), the transition acts like sliding the desktop wallpaper along with the apps. This is “Sliding Panel” effect that’s also (seems to be) default in Windows and macOS.
If you like, it’s easy to use Android/iOS style swipe left or right switching home screen pages animation. In the case, the wallpaper is static during transitions, it works like only switching the app windows on your desktop.
Warzone 2100, the free open-source 3D real-time strategy game, released new major 4.6.0 version few days ago.
This is a big release that features revamped options menu. The options menu now has a clean design with reorganized options, which as well introduced many new toggle options, such as show FPS / Unit Counts, Group Reporting, Radar Zoom, default AI and more.
SuperTuxKart, the 3D kart racing game, announced the second release candidate for the next 1.5 release few days ago.
Due to inner team disagreement, the release of version 1.5 was delayed. And, it explained the reason by announcing SuperTuxKart Evolution (the name of the next major release) few days ago.
Euphonica, the modern GTK4 based MPD client, finally added official package for Linux. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu desktop.
For those who never heard of Euphonica, it’s a client app for Music Player Daemon (MPD) that provides a modern user interface for managing large local music collection (tens of thousands of songs).
The release candidate (RC) of GNOME Desktop 49 is out for testing purpose!
This is the final development release for GNOME 49, while the stable release is planned for September 17th. It added some new features, various bug-fixes, and improvements.
Linux Mint, the popular Ubuntu LTS based Linux Distro, announced new 22.2 point release today.
Linux Mint 22.2, code-name “Zara”, is the second update for the 22 release series that’s based on Ubuntu 24.04 with support until 2029.
GIMP 3.1.4, the second development release for next major 3.2, was released few days ago!
The new release of this popular image editor introduced some exciting new features, including link layers, vector layers, MyPaint brushes version 2, and more.
