Tis the season to indulge in pointless desktop eye candy in the name of festive cheer – and this desktop pet Santa for GNOME ...

How-to blog Tech-Recipes.com offers a useful desktop optimizing tip for Ubuntu/GNOME newcomers (and those of us who forgot it was there). The bottom taskbar installed in Ubuntu and most GNOME-based ...

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.

Sometimes a good GUI can make a server even easier. Jack Wallen shows you how to install the GNOME Desktop Environment on Ubuntu Server, and why this might be a good idea. If you make use of Ubuntu ...

Linux only: Recent switchers from Windows to Linux are probably used to using the Windows key to open up the start menu. To get the same thing on Linux, you'll have to tweak a simple setting instead.

Six years after making Unity the default user interface on Ubuntu desktops, Canonical is giving up on the project and will switch the default Ubuntu desktop back to GNOME next year. Canonical is also ...