If you are someone who loves music and has more than one streaming service or you like to change to check which catalog each one has, as a Linux user you may have noticed that Apple Music was quite complicated to listen to from a desktop apps.

Read the full thing at https://linuxstoney.com/cider-the-apple-music-app-also-for-linux/

Given the great work others did already on the Qt 6 porting of KDE Frameworks, let's take a look at Kate & KWrite on Qt 6.

With only minor patches, both applications now run on the current master state of KDE Frameworks and Qt 6.2.

Close to all functionality is available, I think the only stripped out part is the hot new stuff upload for snippets and I didn't test the Konsole part.

The PipeWire project has made major strides over the past few years, bringing shiny new features, and paving the way for new possibilities in the Linux multimedia scene. With 2021 seeing significant progress made on all fronts, let's take a moment to look back at what was accomplished, and what lies ahead for 2022.

Read the full thing at https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2022/03/08/pipewire-a-year-in-review-look-ahead/

Spectacle now lets you annotate an existing screenshot via a button in the notification or the command-line --edit-existing <file> argument

Read the full thing at https://pointieststick.com/2021/12/03/this-week-in-kde-new-spectacle-features-and-tons-of-bugfixes/

In this article, I'm going to go over the basic building blocks of jq in enough depth that you will be able to understand how jq works.

Of course, you still might occasionally need to head to goodle to find a function name or check your syntax, but at least you'll have a firm grounding in the basics.

Read the full thing at https://earthly.dev/blog/jq-select/

Little Red Dog Games is an indie game developer that primarily uses Godot to create games such as Deep Sixed, Precipice, and their latest game, Rogue State Revolution. To learn more about their experience developing games in Linux, we sat down for an interview with CEO Ryan Hewer and Lead Programmer, Denis Comtesse.

Read the full thing at https://blog.system76.com/post/654884924769370112/developing-games-on-linux-an-interview-with

For PC gamers there is one defacto operating system Windows 10. It's pretty easy, really, you build or buy a swanky gaming PC, slap Windows 10 on it, and go get a coffee while Steam downloads your library. Then you just load up and off you go.

Read the full thing at https://www.techradar.com/au/news/pc-gaming-on-linux-how-hard-can-it-be

Everyone at Mageia is very excited to announce the release of Mageia 8.
Mageia 8 comes with new exciting features, major updates to your favourite programmes as well as support for recent hardware.

Read the full thing here: https://blog.mageia.org/en/2021/02/26/made-it-to-a-byte-announcing-the-release-of-mageia-8/

We look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback so that we can continue working to get Mageia 8 ready for release.

Mageia 8's new artwork has also been integrated, the community has made some really nice images, here is the new signature background, as well as the additional backgrounds that will be included.

Read the full thing at https://blog.mageia.org/en/2021/02/06/announcing-mageia-8-rc1/

So, systemd-resolved is enabled by default in Fedora 33. Most users won;t notice the difference, but if you use VPNs - or depend on DNSSEC, more on that at the bottom of this post - then systemd-resolved might be big deal for you. When testing Fedora 33, we found one bug report where a user discovered that systemd-resolved broke his VPN configuration.

Read the full thing at https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2020/12/17/understanding-systemd-resolved-split-dns-and-vpn-configuration/