"Finally 🐧on the official work laptop 💻. I am one of the first in the state administration of to be allowed to try out the "+1 Linux workstation". 😀"

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Valve's Steam Deck updates to Plasma 6.2.5!

The games console has a slow update cycle to guarantee stability for users, but announced yesterday that both the base system and the desktop environment are being updated to new preview releases.

store.steampowered.com/news/ap

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Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview: Pi Day - Steam News
A mock up showing Plasma 6.2 running on Valve's Steam Deck games console.

digiKam, KDE's full-featured photo management software, releases version 8.6.0.

You can look forward to a smarter face management tool, an improved auto-tagging system that identifies elements in your images, fully automatic red-eye removal, and a new image quality feature that classifies images according to their aesthetic quality.

We also fixed 140 bugs!

digikam.org/news/2025-03-15-8.

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A view of the Face Management tool.
digiKam tags a bunch of photos automatically.
Before-and-after images when applying the automatic red-eye removal plugin.
digiKam can help you assess the aesthetic quality of a photo.

This Week in Plasma brings a massive performance improvement to Spectacles screen recordings, a cleaner login screen for multi-monitor setups, and a less cluttered configuration page for displays.

blogs.kde.org/2025/03/29/this-

The screenshot shows the display System Setting configuration page when a single monitor is detected: the box that allows you to place the monitors relative to each other is absent... Because there is only one, duh!
The screenshot shows the display System Setting configuration page when several monitors are detected: the box that allows you to place the monitors relative to each other is now available.