As a KDE Plasma fan, I've never really loved Ubuntu's customized take on the GNOME desktop environment (DE). Still, Ubuntu remains the most popular distro, so I keep it around for ...

Move over, Ubuntu Touch and Android. There’s new competition in town. The KDE community just unveiled Plasma Mobile, a free and open-source mobile operating system.. This is nothing new for the ...

KDE Plasma 6 is, hands down, the most ... With that configuration, it's more like an elementary OS or Ubuntu Budgie than a Windows UI. Couple that with the transparent menus and it's 100% up my alley.

KDE devs have revived the KISS setup tool, aiming to create a polished first-boot experience for Linux users to rival ...

KDE Plasma 6.4.0 brings improved handling of window tiling, refinements to its dark mode, tweaked widgets and notifications, better sorting of search results from the built-in Krunner tool, a revamp ...

If you'd like to try out Plasma 5, the simplest way is to grab the Neon live CD available from KDE. That will get you Plasma with Ubuntu under the hood.

But with release 24.5.1, KDE Plasma performs as well as any other. I’d go so far as to say the KDE Plasma desktop environment performs as well as many of the lightweight desktops (such as Xfce).

With KDE Neon, you get KDE Plasma exactly as it was meant to be, and that's a good thing. That Ubuntu Base KDE Neon is based on the latest LTS (Long Term Support) release of Ubuntu.

Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Slackware chosen as the most popular GNU/Linux based distributions. ... KDE’s Plasma voted as the most popular desktop environment, pushing Gnome to the 3rd spot.

This means KDE Plasma 5.0 is basically “KDE 5.0”—a huge step forward for the KDE project. 14.10 is an odd release for Ubuntu and its KDE-sporting Kubuntu derivative. For Ubuntu proper, ...

I immediately missed Plasma 5 as I logged into Linux Mint KDE 17.2, most notably the improvements made to the desktop search, which, thanks to new Baloo, is more impressive than what I have seen ...