Testers Assemble!: Plasma 6.7 Beta 1 has been released!
The first version for software testers is now available and should be hitting the "unstable" repos of your distros in the next hours/days.
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.90/
Remember to try out everything you can and, when you hit a bug, send your report to
https://bugs.kde.org
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WARNING: This is unstable untested software! Do not deploy in production or if you are not sure of what you are doing.
#Plasma6 #desktop #FreeSoftware
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Time to get a new wallet? Marco Martin releases KeepSecret 1.1, KDE's new password manager.
https://notmart.org/blog/2026/05/keepsecret-1-1/
#passwords #security #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #desktop #keyring
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How to change icon to Ptyxis application on Ubuntu 26.04? #desktop #desktopicons #2604
https://askubuntu.com/q/1566467/612
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Union, KDE's new style engine, will be released with Plasma 6.7.
Check out how it works and what changes it introduces to styling and theming for Plasma.
https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2026-05/union-spring-2026-update
Are you into theming? Take it for a spin and share what you build with Union!
#theming #design #desktop #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
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@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu
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May 05, 2026
Daniël Franke 
@ainmosni@social.ainmosni.eu
Co-founder PONC.tech, professional computer-whisperer, part time dungeon master, beginner improv comedian. Don't be afraid to request to follow, unless you're an obvious spam account, I will accept. This does mean that your profile has to have at least some stuff on it though. #ImprovComedy #Immigrant #AntiFascist #Neurospicy #ADHD #Queer #Bisexual #Pansexual #Cats #BlockchainSkeptic #Mixology #Cooking #StarTrek #TheExpanse #Golang #Rustlang #Python #Linux #OpenSource #Kubernetes #Berlin #Anarchism #Socialism #TTRPG #BoardGames #VideoGames #NoAI #NoGenAI 
#fedi22 #tootfinder Profile picture by @misnina
social.ainmosni.eu
I'm about to go help someone move from Windows to Linux, and this person is not particularly tech savvy. And it just occurred to me that I can't really think of good distros to demo that showcase GNOME or KDE. The main "newbie friendly" distributions I have now are Linux Mint, and Pop! OS... But when it comes to the "big 2" desktops, I can't think of any that I feel great about:
Fedora (my own desktop OS) and its atomic versions: Great OS, but having to use RPM Fusion for hardware video acceleration disqualifies it because that's always a pain point during upgrades.Ubuntu: I'll use this to showcase GNOME, but I'm not particularly happy with the current direction of the project, especially with their latest focus on AI. And considering that the person I'm helping wants to get away from copilot and AI, I doubt she will enjoy that either.Debian: Haven't used this on a desktop in forever, and never considered this very newbie friendly.SUSE: never made me super comfy, so why would a beginner?
So for now, I'm choosing TuxedoOS for KDE, and Ubuntu for GNOME, but I can't say I'm truly happy with either of those choices for this use case.
#Linux #Desktop
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@serigala_tropis@lgbtqia.space
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Apr 30, 2026
Demokritus Jorik 
@serigala_tropis@lgbtqia.space
Polyamory, 29 years old homosexual man. Into Linux and (generally but not always) open-source software. I boost a lot of pics from Pixelfed. Anti-fascist and anti-violence.
lgbtqia.space
A screenshot of my daily drive desktop.
as screenshotted on Apr 30 2026.
elementary OS 8.1
Linux 6.17.0-22-generic
#linux #elementaryos #foss #tech #desktop
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@sashin@veganism.social
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Apr 29, 2026
Sashin
@sashin@veganism.social
I want to write a better world. I am interested in two things: 1. How the world works 2. How we can make it better My mission is to develop a deep understanding of how our world works — economically, politically, historically — and write to make it common knowledge. I write wanting to address the problems in the world that keep us trapped in cycles of suffering. #writer #science #economics #politics #vegan #atheism #communism #rust #linux #learningjapanese #onepiece #anarchism #socialism
veganism.social
Is there a way to launch an app from a terminal in #gnome and give it an icon? So it doesn't look like this?
#tech #linux #desktop
(hashtags here so people not interested in these things can easily block them)
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@aboutsignal@mastodon.social
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Apr 29, 2026
Signal News & Tips
@aboutsignal@mastodon.social
All about Signal: news, tips, and more! AboutSignal.com is not an official website or Mastodon account of @signalapp
mastodon.social
Signal is working on a standalone version for Signal Desktop that does not require a mobile phone 🤩
Also more adjustable options when using Desktop as a linked device
👉 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-desktop-without-a-mobile-phone-standalone-version-in-development/
#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #news #windows #linux #macOS #desktop #tech #aboutsignal
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KDE will be 30 years old this year and Katie updates her look!
KDE is all about innovating and moving forward, but Katie hadn't changed her apparel in more than 10 years.
Now, sporting an orange hoodie and leggings, she's ready to spring into action and stomp on all those pesky bugs!
https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/
#katie #dragon #women #anniversary #desktop #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #kdeAt30
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@kaidenshi@exquisite.social @libreleah@mas.to @MaddieM4@raphus.social yay!
Also nice to see #OpenBSD used as #Desktop OS…
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@web@mastodon.derstandard.at Tja, #Geldverschwendung halt…
Ich frage mich wieviele Geräte mehr @PCsfueralle@wien.rocks zusammenstellen könnte mit #UbuntuLTS #Desktop, #BunsenLabs #Linux oder gar #RaspberryPiOS!
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Quando se trata de computação desktop, eu vivo uma eterna disputa interna: por um lado, eu consigo ser pragmático e conviver com o atual momento, um tanto quanto esquisito (ou híbrido), no qual é nítida a pressão que a Web e a IA estão exercendo sobre o #desktop tradicional; por outro lado, eu gostaria de ter mais alternativas, mesmo que isso significasse fazer as coisas artesanalmente, sem embarcar vendado no bonde dos LLMs.
Aliás, é meio paradoxal, porque eu já vinha, como falei em vários toots, pensando em escrever aplicativos em C++ e Qt. Não consegui aprender C++, mas consegui orientar minimamente o Opus (antes do 4.6, por motivos que fogem do escopo deste toot) e produzir algumas coisas interessantes, além de corrigir um bug que há anos impedia o bom funcionamento do Osmo, um excelente programinha de PIM.
Eu considero que os aplicativos escritos são suficientes para mostrar que é possível produzir programas enxutos para desktop, seguindo padrões consolidados há décadas, com menus, barras de ferramentas, binários dinamicamente linkados na casa dos KB (e não MB) e dados armazenados com robustez em SQLite.
Então, basicamente, reforço a intenção de montar um ambiente desktop.
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@ChristosArgyrop@mastodon.social @Infoseepage@mastodon.social @thatdnaguy@genomic.social also with the whole Export Restictions BS demand gets up.
Not to mention even if these cards - like Mining GPUs - can't plug in a display, they propably can still be used for #VDI (#Desktop #Virtualization) setups like "#Cloud" #Gaming & #CAD VMs...Worst-case some low- to mid-budget #animation studios & spechalized #datacenters will just gobble them up for @Blender@mastodon.social /@blender@video.blender.org workflows in #Flamenco.
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@asm@mstdn.party
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Apr 13, 2026
Adrian Seidelman
@asm@mstdn.party
Teacher (English Literature) Meridiana High School Meridiana, 🇦🇷 Follow Requests by Students get denied. #CyberSix #Meridiana #AdrianSeidelman #サイバーシックス
mstdn.party
Okay, those are some nice #wallpapers...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cybersix/comments/1n1vvql/some_1080p_wallpapers_i_cooked_up_for_fun/
Sadly not #vector so one cannot simply scale it higher.
#CyberSix #wallpaper #PC #art #1080p #Desktop #DesktopWallpaper #Anime #Animation #Cartoon #Comic
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@asm@mstdn.party
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Apr 20, 2026
Adrian Seidelman
@asm@mstdn.party
Teacher (English Literature) Meridiana High School Meridiana, 🇦🇷 Follow Requests by Students get denied. #CyberSix #Meridiana #AdrianSeidelman #サイバーシックス
mstdn.party
Okay, here are the other ones...
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cybersix/comments/1n1vvql/some_1080p_wallpapers_i_cooked_up_for_fun/
Original Creator: https://www.reddit.com/user/StickiGoblin/
#CyberSix #FanArt #wallpaper #PC #art #1080p #Desktop #DesktopWallpaper #Anime #Animation #Cartoon #Comic
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@musicmatze@social.linux.pizza
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Apr 12, 2026
musicmatze 
@musicmatze@social.linux.pizza
Languages: DE, EN Over 11 years experience in Rust development and Nix/OS. 17 years experience in SW and F/LOSS development. Works with Rust professionally and fulltime <3
social.linux.pizza
So I have read some more about the whole #dioxus vs #tauri plus #leptos plus #axum for a #rust #rustlang #desktop app.
From what I read by now, I would say that I will try the tauri route next. I would still prefer if Dioxus would just work, but what makes me wary about whether Dioxus would be a sustainable choice is that there's a lot of issues in the Dioxus repository that do not even have a reply by a maintainer. My own issues (which are relatively young!) have only little interaction. I get that this is an open source project and maintainer overload and so on, sure. But there's also something about Dioxus being funded? So there are full-time devs (plural!) working on it? What can I say? This makes me wary.
Going down that tauri route would mean that I would need to build the whole thing myself. That could work, but is more than I would have liked to do. I want to develop my app functionality, not set up a GUI development environment.
I could also go for a TUI first, but tbh, I would rather like to have a GUI first, with a clean API that I can then reuse to build a TUI on top of it. Not sure why, the other way around would probably work as well 🤔.
Either way, I would then try leptos as framework for the app, because it looks rather good from what I can read from its documentation, and I can use axum in the backend, which I think fits my needs as well. (Btw developing this with ratatui with a axum backend would also be possible, but that's not the "native way" for a ratatui app, but much more for a leptos app as I understand it, so I expect less headaches here).
I hope I can get a MVP fast, so I can get back to developing my core application stuff, because there's sooo much missing still.
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Filip Fila and Nuno Pineiro are bringing the classic #Oxygen #theme back to Plasma
Tastefully colourful icons, shadows, transparencies and shiny buttons are all part of the spectacular reimagined themes Air and Oxygen being painstakingly reconstructed from scratch by the designers.
Filip includes download links in his blog post so you too can trial-run both themes now:
https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/halfway-there-to-6-7-updates-on-oxygen-and-air/
#Plasma6 #desktop #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
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Today I'm paying with Risc OS on an old Raspberry Pi.
I wish modern desktops had paper like textured windows, a common title bar theme, and proper scroll bars.
Everything's so plain and bland nowadays.
/Rant
#riscos #raspberrypi #retro #desktop
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@fell@ma.fellr.net
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Mar 24, 2026
Fell
@fell@ma.fellr.net
🯁🯂🯃🮲🮳 ← If you can see this, you are cool. Tech nerd with social capabilities. Enjoys simulation games, pen and paper roleplaying, drinking beer and messing with technology while listening to Hatsune Miku. Freelance graphics programmer working on Rust https://rust.facepunch.com #flightsim #aviation #penandpaper #pathfinder #tabletop #ttrpg #linux #steamdeck #selfhosting #postmarketos #cplusplus #cpp #opengl #simd #hatsunemiku #vocaloid #anime #archlinux searchable #fedi22
ma.fellr.net
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Ubuntu 24.04 visual bug and unmounted volume after update #2404 #desktop #desktopbackground
https://askubuntu.com/q/1564480/612
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