Changing Night Light’s colour temperature during the day

by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 14, 2026 | GNOME Extensions, News, night light

Night Light Scheduler is a new GNOME Shell extension that lets you control how warm your screen is throughout the evening (or day). GNOME’s built-in Night Light feature offers a customisable daily schedule, and lets you pick a colour temperature that’s more or less...

Ubuntu 25.10 loses security updates on 9 July, 2026

by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 14, 2026 | end of life, News, Ubuntu 25.10, Ubuntu Support

Support for Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” ends 9 July 2026 – which is this week. If you’re still using it, you can upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS directly to keep receiving updates. Ubuntu 25.10 was released in October 2025. As an ‘interim release’ the desktop edition...

TUXEDO OS drops Ubuntu to rebase on Debian Testing

by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 14, 2026 | Debian, News, tuxedo

TUXEDO Computers is rebasing TUXEDO OS on Debian, moving away from Ubuntu. The German Linux hardware company launched TUXEDO OS in 2022, building on top of an Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) release to, chiefly, support its own hardware with customisations, though the...

Linux Mint 23 to offer full Wayland support (but X11 is staying)

by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 14, 2026 | Cinnamon, Linux Mint, News, Wayland

Linux Mint says Wayland support in its next release will no longer be considered experimental, but available as a fully-supported option. However, it will continue to provide and support X11, unlike other Linux distributions which have jettisoned the legacy Xorg/X11...

Claude desktop app for Linux enters beta – here’s how to try it

by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 14, 2026 | AI/ML, App Updates, Claude, News

Anthropic has released a beta of its Claude desktop app for Linux, launching alongside an apt repo Ubuntu users can add for ongoing updates. According to the official docs, Claude desktop for Linux offers “the same Chat, Cowork, and Claude Code experience as macOS and...

Ubuntu 26.10 retires dbus-daemon after 22 year run as default

by quikefix quikefix.com | Jul 14, 2026 | dbus, News, Ubuntu 26.10

Ubuntu 26.10 is replacing its D-Bus implementation for the first time since 2004, swapping dbus-daemon for dbus-broker – a change end-users are unlikely to notice. Processes on your desktop talk to each other and to the host system using D-Bus, a ‘message’ bus. This...