My top 5 Linux desktops of 2026 (so far) - and I've tried them all

I've spent decades testing nearly every Linux desktop. Which one should you try today? I've narrowed your options down to ...

KDE Linux is the purest form of Plasma I've tested - but the install isn't for the meek

Linux distros present KDE Plasma with a version customized for that particular OS. KDE Linux offers the purest version.
Rock Paper Shotgun

From the C: to the /Mnt/s, Linux is better than ever for PC gaming – and easier to switch to from Windows

For radical, picture me skateboarding ungainly while installing Linux - or, to be more precise CachyOS - on my PC. Windows 11 ...
TMCnet

A2A Protocol Surpasses 150 Organizations, Lands in Major Cloud Platforms, and Sees Enterprise Production Use in First Year

About the A2A Protocol The Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol is an open standard that enables AI agents to discover, communicate, and transact with each other across different frameworks, vendors, and ...
PCGamesN

Minecraft texture packs 2026 - Java and Bedrock resources

Part of Minecraft's charm has always been its simple, blocky, pixelated aesthetic. With more items than ever and some retextures over the years, vanilla Minecraft looks slightly less grassroots than ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: The Supply Chain Has Problems

The biggest story of the week is a new massive supply chain breach, which appears to be unrelated to the previous massive supply chain breaches, this time of the Axios HTTP project. Axios was ...
PCMag Australia

Apple's First Digital Camera Cost $749 and Held 8 Photos. I Tried It 30 Years Later

Way back in 1994, Apple beat Canon and Nikon to release the first reasonably priced digital camera, the QuickTake 100. Using ...

If you're gaming on Linux, this tool will add achievements to even non-Steam games

How much effort would you put in for some extra achievements?