GNOME desktop environment is becoming less customizable with each update. Even after the release of GTK-4, this move has been controversial among many users, as it is quite restrictive when you want to apply a custom theming to your desktop.…
Rare is an open source lightweight frontend for the ‘Legendary’ command line launcher for the Epic Games Store. It can be seen as an alternative for Heroic Games launcher and/or Lutris, which are widely used to install and run games…
Heroic Games Launcher is an open-source tool designed to optimize your gaming experience by allowing you to install and play games from your GOG and Epic Games Store Library. It is cross-platform and is available on Windows as well as…
There are many game launchers available for the Linux Desktop right now, including Heroic, Lutris, and Bottles etc. all with a different set of features. Lutris attempts to unify the GOG, Itch, Steam and Epic games and on the other…
Proton, a fork of the WINE compatibility layer for Windows applications and games, is developed and maintained by Valve Software. Predominantly used to run Windows games on Linux via the Steam Store, Proton can also be enabled on platforms like…
The GNOME desktop environment, version 40 onwards, offers a gesture support on Laptops which have touchpads. These gestures include a three finger horizontal swipe to change workspaces and a three finger vertical swipe to open either the search menu or…
Signal is a fully open-source end-to-end encrypted messaging application which is available on every platform, be it Android, Windows, macOS, or Linux. Although this application existed for a long time (launched in 2014), it gained a lot of popularity in…
Foliate is a lightweight and open-source e-book reader application written in the GTK framework and supports multiple book formats such as EPUB, Kindle (azw), Comic books (cbr, cbz etc.) as well as plain texts. It offers you a Library view…
If you are using your Linux machine along with any display having resolution higher than 720p, then chances are that every artifact such as icons or buttons either looks too small or too large. This is because Fractional scaling has…
Your Desktop is the first thing you encounter when you turn on your system, and you see things like your wallpaper and desktop icons if you have placed any. Wallpapers and themes can change the entire look of your desktop,…