#linux-desktop on Hacker News
18 stories tagged linux-desktop, newest first.
Flatpak – An Insecurity Nightmare(oro.gay)
52 points by jannesan | 42 comments
Blog post by Yves Auxier arguing that Flatpak, the Linux desktop app packaging and sandboxing system, has serious security problems.
Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design(github.com)
670 points by FinalDestiny | 275 comments
GitHub repository for DEsk, a beta Wayland desktop environment for Linux with a skeuomorphic design, including Fedora and Debian packaging.
Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available(ubuntu.com)
62 points by d99kris | 49 comments
Canonical blog post announcing the availability of Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) and encouraging desktop users to upgrade.
Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop(lwn.net)
363 points by signa11 | 449 comments
LWN.net article reporting on Scott Jenson's Akademy 2026 talk urging open-source projects like KDE to move desktop design beyond the traditional WIMP model.
Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor(alexxcons.github.io)
345 points by pantalaimon | 270 comments
Xfce team blog post announcing xfwl4, a donation-funded Wayland compositor developed by Brian Tarricone to replicate xfwm4 behavior, with its roadmap.
2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop(xeiaso.net)
767 points by todsacerdoti | 572 comments
Xe Iaso's blog note announcing a switch from Windows 11 to Fedora Linux as their main desktop OS in 2026, criticizing Microsoft's recent Windows changes.
Linux is good now(pcgamer.com)
1060 points by Vinnl | 847 comments
A PC Gamer opinion piece arguing Linux is now good enough for desktop use and urging readers to switch in 2026 to feel ownership of their PCs.
Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux(loss32.org)
322 points by akka47 | 411 comments
Project page for loss32, a proposed Linux desktop distribution built around running Win32 software and a Windows-like userland via Wine/ReactOS components.
KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices(community.kde.org)
452 points by snthd | 181 comments
KDE community wiki page for KDE Connect, a project letting phones and desktops share notifications, files, media control and remote input.
Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor(github.com)
429 points by atlintots | 212 comments
GitHub repository for niri, a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor written in Rust.
KDE is now my favorite desktop(kokada.dev)
833 points by todsacerdoti | 698 comments
A personal blog post explaining why the author switched to KDE on a gaming PC and now prefers it over other Linux desktops, Windows, and macOS.
Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop(quickshell.org)
345 points by abhinavk | 45 comments
Homepage of Quickshell, a toolkit for building custom Linux desktop shells, bars, and widgets, with a screenshot gallery and a 0.2.0 release banner.
The Future Is Niri(ersei.net)
388 points by mattjhall | 202 comments
A personal blog post giving the author's opinion on the Niri scrollable tiling Wayland compositor after years of using Sway and i3.
TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop(github.com)
381 points by nateb2022 | 98 comments
GitHub repository for TextSnatcher, a Vala/GTK Linux desktop app that copies text from images using Tesseract OCR.
The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6(lwn.net)
759 points by jrepinc | 551 comments
LWN article by Joe Brockmeier on the KDE Plasma 6 megarelease, covering the move to Wayland, Qt 6, and KDE Frameworks 6.
Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share(linuxiac.com)
480 points by cglong | 408 comments
Linuxiac article reporting that, per StatCounter data, Linux reached a 3% desktop market share by June 2023.
Red Hat dropping support for LibreOffice(lwn.net)
340 points by 5e92cb50239222b | 267 comments
LWN brief quoting Red Hat's Matthias Clasen announcing that LibreOffice will be dropped from a future RHEL release, with Fedora support uncertain.