Snap packages on Ubuntu can be bloated and slow. They can waste your storage and seemingly slow down system performance.

Love Ubuntu Linux, but hate the Unity desktop environment that Canonical ships with it? There are a number of alternative versions of Ubuntu supported by a large development community including ...

A new GNOME Shell extension rethinks the app grid (aka the app picker, app drawer, launcher screen – what do you call it?) by ...

Using KDE Plasma Widgets is another fantastic way to display desktop widgets on your Ubuntu desktop. However, you need to ...

Ubuntu MATE is now an official flavor of Ubuntu. Yes, that means Ubuntu is giving a stamp of endorsement to GNOME 2 once again. You don’t need to switch to Linux ...

Canonical’s announcement to ditch Unity and move back to Gnome Stack and Gnome Shell has put Ubuntu Gnome in the spotlight. Canonical won’t have to do any work in ‘going back to Gnome’ because Ubuntu ...

Choose GNOME Classic from the login screen and you’ll use that instead of Unity for your desktop environment in Ubuntu 12.04. Unity has gotten better, but some people still prefer GNOME Classic.

Canonical recently released Ubuntu 18.04, the company’s latest iteration of its popular Linux distribution, nicknamed Bionic Beaver. Ubuntu 18.04 is a Long Term Support (LTS) release and will receive ...

What changed in Ubuntu in 2025? From the "oxidisation" of sudo to the end of X11, here's a recap of the 10 biggest changes ...

I reviewed Ubuntu 15.10 (along with openSUSE Leap 42.1 and Fedora 23) a little over a week ago. And, you know what? It is really solid. I’d go so far as to say it is the most excellent release of ...