NordVPN today announced a major update to its Linux app, adding a much-requested GUI front-end that makes it easier to control, configure and monitor connections. Linux users have been able to use an official, comprehensive command-line interface for NordVPN for many years. Today’s announcement of a graphical user-interface option sees the company widen access to its offerings to Linux users of all experience levels. For those wondering, the NordVPN Linux app is open-source. The NordVPN Linux GUI brings “visually rich elements and ease of use without compromising advanced features. With just a few clicks, users can connect to a server, […]

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If you’ve been patiently waiting to do an in-place upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 from 24.10, your patience is about to pay off. Ubuntu developers were forced to halt upgrades to the new Ubuntu 25.04 release due to a number of major bugs affecting users across different Ubuntu flavours. Some users were left with broken desktops (environments, that is – upgrading wasn’t melting PC towers); upgrading was removing third-party packages it shouldn’t have, while many Qt-flavour users couldn’t upgrade using the GUI tool due to missing dependencies. This is why Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades are not working at present (unless manually forced […]

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I reported a few months back Kagi, the company behind the paid, private and privacy-focused search engine of the same time, is porting its Orion web browser to Linux – now we have our first early look at its Linux GUI. On macOS, Orion is a zero-telemetry browser with built-in ad and tracking blocking, page tweaks, and lower memory usage and better battery efficiency than other browsers. It also supports both Chrome extensions and Firefox add-ons. A recent development screenshot of Orion’s WIP Linux build shared by Kagi devs—which you can see above—reveals Orion’s toolkit of choice on Linux will […]

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