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What’s coming next for the Linux desktop, and some exclusive news from System76.
Plus, we try out Element’s new voice messages and share our thoughts.
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Links:
- This week in KDE — The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 21.08 as the newest series of their open-source software suite for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and other projects.
- KDE Gear 21.08 Brings Improvements to Dolphin, Konsole, Okular, and Many Other KDE Apps
- KDE Plasma Introduces A New Overview Effect, Many Wayland Fixes - Phoronix
- #6 Sharing, Caring · This Week in GNOME
- Ubuntu 21.10 Likely Sticking To The GNOME 40 Desktop — Ideally we would have updated to 41 but feature freeze is today and we didn’t really have the resources available for the update.
- MATE 1.26 Desktop Released With Some Wayland Support — After one and a half years in development of MATE 1.26 as a fork of the GNOME 2 desktop components, this release is now available with initial Wayland support and more.
- Element introduces Voice Messages — This has been one of our oldest and most upvoted feature requests ever, so we are incredibly happy to unleash our first version of it at last.
- Join the Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix Server
- Tenacity Update
- LINUX Unplugged 419: What’s Cookin’ at System76
- Launch Configurable Keyboard | System76 — The Launch Configurable Keyboard is engineered to be comfortable, fully customizable, and make your workflow more efficient.