Plasma 6 hits its stride with version 6.1. While Plasma 6.0 was all about getting the migration to the underlying Qt 6 frameworks correct (and what a massive job that was), 6.1 is where developers start implementing the features that will take your desktop to a new level.

In this release, you will find features that go far beyond subtle changes to themes and tweaks to animations (although there is plenty of those too), as you delve into interacting with desktops on remote machines, become more productive with usability and accessibility enhancements galore, and discover customizations that will even affect the hardware of your computer.

These features and more are being built directly into Plasma’s Wayland version natively, avoiding the need for third party software and hacky extensions required by similar solutions implemented in X.

Things will only get more interesting from here. But meanwhile enjoy what will land on your desktop with your next update.

After 6 frenzied months of development the final stable Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release has arrived and is available for download.

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (codenamed ‘Noble Numbat’) includes a rich array of new features ranging from an enhanced desktop installer and a the latest GNOME desktop to gaming improvements and a new Linux kernel.

As a long-term support release Ubuntu 24.04 LTS gets 5 years of select apps updates, security fixes, kernel upgrades, and other buffs, and a further 5 years of extended security coverage via Ubuntu Pro.

Had an Windows 11 Pro VM running in VMware Workstation Pro version 17.5.0 on Kubuntu 22.04.3 that would periodic freezes for about 20 to 120 seconds.

Power down the VM and add to the vmx:
Edit the vmx file of the guest
isolation.tools.unity.disable = “TRUE”

Thx to adamitj

Source: VMware forum on how to disable Unity feature on Fusion/Workstation

KDE screen locker is not trying to run howdy as root, so changing permission could solve the issue.
sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/lib/security/howdy

Download the driver, place it in a folder on C:\Temp, check if there are multiple *.inf files. If there are, rename them (for example, $inf to something like C:\Windows\Temp\Ricoh\RH5050nw.inf).”  Then creat a file Install_printer.ps1

VMware Horizon 8 version 2306 includes the following new features and enhancements.

IMPORTANT: Horizon 8 2306 is not supported with vSphere 6.5 or vSphere 6.7, which are both past the end of General Support.  Horizon 8 2306 Instant Clones are incompatible with vSphere 6.5 and vSphere 6.7 so you must upgrade to vSphere 7.0 or later before upgrading to Horizon 8 2306 if you are using Instant Clones.

Debug and Locale

For every package that is created using flatpak-builder, a .Debug and a .Locale package are automatically generated. This is true for both local compilation and CI-compiled packages.

The .Debug package needs to be explicitly installed before it can be used, and it provides debug symbols for debugging with tools like gdb inside the Flatpak, like so:

flatpak install org.kde.yourapp.Debug
flatpak run --command=bash --devel org.kde.yourapp
gdb /app/bin/yourappbinary

The .Locale package is installed alongside a normal installation of your application, but can only be seen with flatpak list --all. It provides locale-specific files based on your default language or extra languages, which can be useful to check for internationalization issues like text wrapping, elision, and mistranslations. By default, Flatpak will try to be smart and deduce the default language based on your locale settings, and the downloaded .Locale will only include the languages listed in languages and extra-languages (if set), so a flatpak update is required to download more languages. For example: