Simutrans is a long-running, open-source transport simulation in which success comes from building a network rather than merely placing vehicles. The project remains actively maintained, and its July 2026 activity gives Linux players a timely reason to revisit it. It runs natively, costs nothing, and can scale from a quiet bus route to a dense... » read more

If you have ever felt the slow dread of “wait, which email is that the same password for?” then a local password manager is overdue. KeePassXC 2.7.12, released on 10 March 2026, is the current stable of the longest-running open-source, no-cloud KeePass fork — and on Linux it is genuinely the easiest to set up... » read more

How to Use Zellij 0.44 on Linux (Better than tmux) If you have ever installed tmux, struggled with its default Ctrl-b prefix, copy-pasted a .tmux.conf from a stranger on the internet, and still felt like the tool was actively fighting you — Zellij is the answer. On 23 March 2026, the project shipped 0.44.0, a... » read more

How to Build a Better Linux Feed Workflow with RSS Guard RSS is having a useful second life. Instead of asking a social timeline to decide what matters, a feed reader gives you an explicit list of publishers, projects, and services. RSS Guard is a fast, customizable desktop reader for Linux, Windows, macOS, BSD, and... » read more

NixOS 26.05 Yarara was released on May 30, 2026 — here is what changed and how to install it If you have ever been burned by apt removing a package you depended on, or by dnf leaving your desktop in a half-upgraded state, NixOS will feel like a different operating system. Every package, every service,... » read more

BleachBit is the open-source answer to CCleaner on Linux, and on 4 July 2026 the project shipped **6.0.2** — a maintenance release that fixes a Windows security issue, brings a new **DNS cache cleaner** plus AI-IDE cleaners (VS Code, Codium, Cursor, Windsurf, Antigravity, Devin, **Claude Code**), ships a first-party **AppImage** for Linux, and adds support... » read more

0 A.D. Release 28 “Boiorix” is a good reason to revisit one of Linux’s most ambitious free games. Released by Wildfire Games on 18 February 2026, it is the project’s first release without the “Alpha” label. It adds a semi-nomadic German faction, an official Linux AppImage, better font rendering, safer multiplayer defaults and useful match-setup... » read more

Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” arrived on 13 January 2026 as the final point release in the Mint 22 series. It keeps the dependable Ubuntu 24.04 LTS foundation while updating the desktop to Cinnamon 6.6, adding Linux 6.14, improving Wayland and input-method support, and introducing better troubleshooting tools. Support continues until 2029, so it is a... » read more

Superfile (the command is spf) is a modern, Go-based terminal file manager that puts a full multi-panel file browser into your terminal without giving up the speed of cd, ls, and cp. The project shipped its first stable release in 2024 and has been gaining about a thousand GitHub stars a quarter since. Version 1.6.0... » read more

Flameshot is a free, open-source screenshot tool for Linux (and macOS and Windows) that puts the capture box, the annotation tools, and the save dialog all in one place. After more than three years without a release, the project shipped version 13.0.0 in August 2025 — a full port to Qt 6 plus a handful... » read more

Reasonix stores global state in ~/.reasonix/, project state inside the project, and the runtime in two more places. Knowing which directory holds what makes backup scripts trivial. The trickiest file is .env — it is excluded from MCP child environments but you still want it under version control, just redacted. A backup script #!/usr/bin/env bash... » read more

Reasonix already speaks the Model Context Protocol. Adding an MCP server means one more [[plugins]] entry under ~/.reasonix/config.toml (or reasonix.toml per-project). Three transports are supported, and MCP prompts automatically become slash commands. The configuration Two files: TOML for non-secret configuration, .env for key values. Resolution order is flag > ./reasonix.toml > ~/.reasonix/config.toml > built-in defaults.... » read more

A Reasonix session that runs for two hours will eventually forget what file you were in, write something into the wrong directory, or charge you for repeating the same prefix. The slash commands are the controls that keep the cache warm and the diff readable. Most of them are local — they cost nothing and... » read more

Reasonix is hard-coded to talk to a provider endpoint, not to a model name. Adding a new endpoint is a [[providers]] entry in ~/.reasonix/config.toml and a matching API key in ~/.reasonix/.env. The same shape works for local llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, and remote gateways. Common endpoints Provider base_url Sample model API key env Ollama (local) http://127.0.0.1:11434/v1... » read more

The VS Code extension is a thin shell. It does not bundle the Reasonix CLI; it starts your local reasonix acp backend and adds chat, workspace sessions, editor context, and approval cards. If reasonix --version works on the terminal, the extension will work; if it does not, the extension cannot save you. Before you start... » read more

Reasonix is a DeepSeek-native coding agent that runs as a single Go binary in your terminal. It keeps DeepSeek’s prompt prefix stable so long sessions stay cheap. On Ubuntu you can install it three ways; pick the one that matches what your machine already has. Before you start You need three things on a stock... » read more

LXQt is where the word ‘theme’ is most likely to hide three unrelated systems. Its panel and desktop use an LXQt QSS theme, Qt applications use a Qt style such as Fusion, Breeze or Kvantum, and window borders belong to whichever window manager or Wayland compositor you chose. A coherent LXQt setup is therefore a... » read more

MATE preserves the GNOME 2 workflow, but it is not frozen GNOME 2 code. The desktop now uses GTK 3, Marco maintains Metacity-compatible decorations, and Wayland support is arriving component by component. Its theme model remains pleasantly legible: widgets, window borders, icons, cursors and panel layout are separate things. The three diagrams in this article... » read more

Cinnamon offers a traditional desktop, but its theme stack is not a single traditional GTK theme. The panel and menu are Cinnamon Shell, application controls are GTK, and window borders come from Muffin’s Metacity-compatible decorations. The Themes panel exposes all of them on one page, which is convenient until similarly named packages make it look... » read more

Xfce looks simple because it does not hide its modules. The same modularity explains its most common theme complaint: changing Appearance styles the applications but may leave the titlebars untouched. Xfwm4 draws those separately. Once that split is clear, Xfce is one of the easiest desktops to theme, back up and automate. The three diagrams... » read more