Intel's Panther Lake looks great, but it's not the upgrade desktop owners were hoping for
… If bLLC lands the way the X3D comparison implies, desktop owners could get a chip that leaps well past the modest IPC gains the leaks suggest. …
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What about X11-only apps and remote desktop?
The biggest downside to X11 disappearing is that a lot of remote desktop apps and headless sessions use it. VNC servers, X11 forwarding over SSH, and XRDP all rely on it, and there's no perfect equivalent for them in Wayland. But even that space is slowly shifting over to Wayland, with tools like GNOME Remote Desktop gaining traction and RDP support growing. It's not as straightforward as X11 was, but it's getting there. Most users on KDE Plasma probably aren't going to be doing serious headless remote session work through it anyway, and those who are should be able to find viable alternatives
KDE is finally killing X11, and I'm not as sad as I thought I'd beIs this an equal payoff?
Unified memory layouts are a fantastic engineering approach and provide significant performance gains that are structurally necessary to drive the future of local AI and integrated graphics. We must be honest about what we're surrendering in exchange for those benchmarks. Getting rid of the modular slots on your current desktop rigs can make upgrading, repairing, or replacing components a lot more difficult and a lot more expensive, a step I'm not ready to take.
Your next PC won't let you upgrade the RAM, and it's going to cost you thousandsLinux might never replace Windows, so Valve is putting it in your living room instead
… Modern distros are easier to install and easier to maintain, sure, but market share numbers tell the same story they always have — Linux enthusiasts may be louder than ever, but Windows still holds over 60% of the global desktop pie . …
KDE is finally killing X11, and I'm not as sad as I thought I'd be
… What about X11-only apps and remote desktop? The biggest downside to X11 disappearing is that a lot of remote desktop apps and headless sessions use it. …
Docker on Windows is about to become obsolete, and WSL containers are why
… Related GPU passthrough to LXCs beats VMs in Proxmox, and it's way simpler than you'd think There's no point in wasting GPU resources on VMs when LXCs can share the same card I'm excited to drop Docker Desktop in favor of WSL Containers I've been using WSL extensively to run Linux tooling without s… …
Your next PC won't let you upgrade the RAM, and it's going to cost you thousands
… A unified layout treats the system memory pool as a single ultra-fast asset vault shared equally by the CPU, GPU, and even NPU. …
Most people will miss Ubuntu 26.04's biggest security upgrade — and that's the point
… System utilities are also shared terrain between desktop and server users. GNOME 50 matters to Ubuntu Desktop, but sudo-rs and Rust core utilities matter across more of the Ubuntu world. …
I tested every Linux desktop and realized fragmentation isn't a problem anymore
… Some distros are fully designed around that flexibility and don't even have a preferred desktop, like Arch. You're supposed to choose the desktop or desktops you want at the start, but Arch itself doesn't provide one. …
Microsoft just broke custom folder icons in Windows, and the reason is a bug from 2003
… Now, head into PowerShell, and type in the following: attrib +s +h "C:\Path\To\Your\Chosen\Folder\desktop.ini" Ensure you use the quotes here. Press Enter. This will make the desktop.ini file hidden inside the folder. …
Ubuntu LTS is the best Proxmox LXC base, even though Debian seems like the obvious choice
… I pick and choose when to use Debian, but default to Ubuntu Some things are just quicker to deploy The reputation that Ubuntu has gained is largely due to its handling of the desktop operating system and full server install, not the LXC, which is super minimal with no snaps running, no desktop, and… …
My favorite alternative to Google Drive is not OneDrive or Dropbox, it's something way private and powerful
… Nextcloud offers native apps on all the major desktop and mobile platforms. I particularly liked its Android app, which supports the Material You theme. The desktop client works much like Google Drive for desktop. …