News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
GNOME 48 introduced “Wellbeing” settings panel, allowing to monitor and limit screen time usage. It also has Break Reminders options that can remind user to take a break in given time interval.
If you like this feature, but running on old GNOME (e.g., Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04) or other desktop environments, then there’s a good alternative app called SafeEyes that can project your eyes by reminding or forcing to take a break!
The cross-platform free open source motor-sport simulator, Speed Dreams, released new 2.4.1 version a few days ago.
Speed Dreams is a fork of the famous Open Racing Car Simulator TORCS, and it features high-quality 3D graphics and an accurate physics engine. The last 2.4.0 release introduced a in-game download manager, allowing to easily fetch new cars and tracks from a configurable repositories.
Visual Studio Code 1.100, the April 2025 release of Microsoft’s IDE, was released one day ago on May 8.
The new version now uses GPT-4.1 as the default base model in AI chat, though it’s a progressive roll-out feature that may not yet be available to all users.
It implemented support for OpenAI’s apply patch editing format (GPT 4.1 and o4-mini) and Anthropic’s replace string tool (Claude Sonnet 3.7 and 3.5), that results significantly faster edits, especially in large files.
Want to benchmark or do stress test on your Linux PC or laptop? The all-in-one solution OCCT can now do the job for you!
OCCT, stands for Overclock Checking Tool, is a popular computer hardware stability testing, benchmark, and monitoring tool. It offers pro, enterprise, and command line versions that need to pay for use, as well as a personal use edition with all core functions for free.
The developer team started the development of Ubuntu 25.10 in last week. Now the release schedule and daily build live CD image are out!
Ubuntu 25.10, code-name Questing Quokka, is the next Ubuntu version planned to be released on October 09. It’s a short term release with 9-month support circle.
If everything goes well, it will feature GNOME 49 desktop and the latest Linux Kernel (probably v6.17 according to Kernel release interval).
Image by Katy_Heejin from Pixabay
After 2 alpha and 1 beta releases, BleachBit system cleaner finally released the new major 5.0.0 version few days ago.
Compare to the last stable v4.6.2, the new release of this free open-source disk space cleaner added ability to clean caches for more applications, fixed various bugs, and improved stability significantly.
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Upscaler, the free open-source AI image upscaling application, released new 1.5.0 version (then v1.5.1 with quick update) in last week.
The new released added sequential image processing support. Meaning user can now open multiple images at once, then let the app enhance them one by one.
Looking for a MacOS Hand Mirror alternative app for Ubuntu? Here’s one for the GNOME desktop.
It’s CamPeek, an extension adds an icon on GNOME top-bar, allowing to one-click to preview your webcam. It’s lightweight and fast! And, it streams your webcam feed directly without recording or saving any data.
image from app’s Github project page
Mission Center, the popular free open-source system monitoring and task managing app for Linux Desktop, release new 1.0.0 version few days ago.
Like Resources, it’s a modern GTK4 tool to monitor CPU, GPU, Memory, Storage and Network devices, while being able to manage running apps, processes, as well as background services.
Want to round corners of windows in KDE Plasma Desktop? Here’s a KWin effect can do the job in recent Plasma desktop from v5.27 to v6.3.
There was a ShapeCorners KWin/5 effect can do the job to enable rounded window corners, which however discontinued. What I’m going to introduce is KDE-Rounded-Corners, a fork of ShapeCorners with optimization and recent Plasma desktop support.
