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76 stories and discussions about desktop, aggregated from every source we track.

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Scott Jenson has been working on user interfaces (UIs) and user experience (UX) for many years [...]

399 points•signa11•7 days ago•523 comments•
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124 points•jturner•about 5 years ago•27 comments
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JBR-001 is an open-source desktop companion robot powered by the Arduino® UNO™ Q and built to make robotics, computer vision, edge AI, and physical AI fun to explore.

121 points•gvuksic•1 day ago•29 comments•
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Fast Desktop Switching Device. Contribute to hrvach/deskhop development by creating an account on GitHub.

81 points•dkarvik•2 months ago•20 comments
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Whether you’re a first-time Linux user, experienced developer, academic researcher, or enterprise administrator, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is the best way to benefit from the latest advancements in the Linux…

65 points•d99kris•about 11 hours ago•56 comments•
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Scott Jenson has been working on user interfaces (UIs) and user experience (UX) for many years [...]

60 points•lollipopman•7 days ago•19 comments
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version 0.01 of mochi. laughable i know, but he's so cute! I've been building a little green...

48 points•mikachu•11 days ago•16 comments
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The behind-the-scenes story of how we built DinoDesk AI—a privacy-first, LEGO dino companion robot powered by a hybrid Local Gemma 4 and Cloud Gemini architecture.

44 points•bebechien•15 days ago•7 comments
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Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user

27 points•pndy•11 days ago•28 comments•
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This is the first blog in a series about desktop improvements coming to Wikipedia. Wikipedia has remained a critical and widely-used resource for knowledge across the world for the past two decades…

14 points•inactive-user•about 6 years ago•15 comments
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<p>What is the metaphor for the computer of the future? The intelligent agent? The television (multimedia)? The 3-D graphics world (virtual reality)? The Star Trek ubiquitous voice computer? The GUI desktop, honed and refined? The machine that magically grants our wishes? The right answer is "none of the above," because all of these concepts share a basic flaw—they make the computer visible.</p>

11 points•josephjnk•10 months ago•4 comments
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6 points•matthiaswh•about 9 hours ago•2 comments•
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Linux you'll want to look at. A Mac-inspired desktop, built on Arch, Debian, and BSD.

6 points•macote•10 days ago•8 comments•
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6 points•3371•13 days ago•1 comment•
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5 points•upboundspiral•8 days ago•1 comment•
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A fast, open and Secure desktop Operating System based on NetBSD

5 points•inactive-user•over 7 years ago•2 comments
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Review Pull Requests in seconds with a native desktop app. Zero server uploads, live execution console, inline AI observations.

4 points•edyaguirre•1 day ago•0 comments•
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Apple’s cheapest desktop computer is no longer a bargain but its newest, fastest chip makes it a pocket powerhouse

4 points•tosh•1 day ago•0 comments•
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Docker on Windows without Docker Desktop or WSL: a standalone container manager with its own tiny Linux machine. 4x less memory, local HTTPS for every container, no telemetry. - v94lere/solon

4 points•v94lere•5 days ago•0 comments•
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A desktop-style archive of textured GLB models from Katamari Damacy and We Love Katamari.

4 points•mef•7 days ago•5 comments•
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Use Omarchy Linux on Windows without any hassle. Contribute to omacom/try-omarchy-windows development by creating an account on GitHub.

4 points•tsouth2•10 days ago•3 comments•
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4 points•tripdout•11 days ago•2 comments•
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3 points•rdslw•about 8 hours ago•1 comment•
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3 points•thelamer•4 days ago•0 comments•
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Eight municipalities are already testing DAWO, the government's NixOS-powered work environment.

3 points•abdelhousni•5 days ago•1 comment•
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Plug in a MIDI keyboard and train sight-reading, chords, intervals and scales with live feedback, exam mode and games. Buy once. macOS, Windows, Linux.

3 points•monoglyph•10 days ago•0 comments•
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3 points•Topfi•11 days ago•1 comment•
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2 points•locusm•about 1 hour ago•0 comments•
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2 points•GrayShade•about 9 hours ago•0 comments•
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Not a chatbot. Not a coding assistant. A digital operator that controls your entire PC — 219 tools, screen perception, HID control, browser automation, Office suite, AI media. One sentence in, fini...

2 points•moching_ai_dev•about 23 hours ago•0 comments•
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Here&#8217;s a theory you hear a lot these days: &#8220;Microsoft is finished. As soon as Linux makes some inroads on the desktop and web applications replace desktop applications, the mighty empir…

2 points•lr0•1 day ago•0 comments•
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A desktop workspace for reading, questioning and understanding your own documents. Local-first, source-backed answers, and any model you choose. No Docker, no server, no account.

2 points•mrsibe•2 days ago•0 comments•
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Klassik is a modern KDE Plasma 6 project recreating the look and feel of KDE 3 while supporting Wayland and fractional scaling.

2 points•turrini•3 days ago•0 comments•
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Keep a few AI workers with names, roles and their own instructions, and give them work in a normal chat. Local database, no account, AGPL-3.0.

2 points•codepawl•3 days ago•0 comments•
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I'm building Ankita, an open-source desktop AI assistant (Electron + terminal CLI) that can run shell...

2 points•krish_verma_77e28d3fd63ca•5 days ago•4 comments
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2 points•rwmj•7 days ago•2 comments•
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Build macOS, Windows, and Linux desktop apps in JavaScript: txiki.js backend, native webview window, ~6 MB shipped. No Electron. No ports.

2 points•josephscott•8 days ago•0 comments•
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QBZ was never trying to fight Qobuz. It simply ended up exactly where those two worlds collide.

2 points•herrherrmann•9 days ago•0 comments•
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Choose a companion, start chats from your desktop, and follow activity

2 points•_doctor_love•10 days ago•0 comments•
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Teach dassi how you do a job once and it keeps doing it — on your schedule, in the web apps you're already signed into, with the approvals you set.

2 points•imvyarqoyzcuem•11 days ago•0 comments•
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RexaDB is a modern desktop database studio for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, and more.

1 points•handfuloflight•about 1 hour ago•0 comments•
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Immutable Debian desktop for developers. Contribute to frostyard/snowdesktop development by creating an account on GitHub.

1 points•lproven•about 13 hours ago•2 comments
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The desktop editor for Microsoft Fabric semantic models: lineage, refresh health, memory and report usage, with safe DAX and Power Query editing. Windows and Linux. - AFetisa/Daxis

1 points•afetisa•about 13 hours ago•0 comments•
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Twin is a local-first AI buddy that floats on your Mac desktop: it remembers your day, catches you up on your texts, talks back by voice, and nudges you before you forget, all on-device with DuckDB. No cloud, no…

1 points•woustachemax•about 14 hours ago•0 comments•
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Self-hosted workspace for continuing Codex, Claude Code, and Grok work across desktop, foldable, tablet, and phone. - panarch/caffold

1 points•taehoon•2 days ago•0 comments•
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A beautiful calendar. A place to think. Plaintext files you own. Free and open source.

1 points•mannders•4 days ago•0 comments•
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Add an "Enable Sponsored Ads" toggle to the Data collection section of brave://settings/privacy on Desktop, matching the mobile settings. Test plan Test case 1 Open brave://settings/privacy → Data ...

1 points•thunderbong•4 days ago•0 comments•
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Search your footage by memory. Locally, privately, without changing a single file.

1 points•Diyon_Dust•5 days ago•0 comments•
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1 points•cperciva•6 days ago•0 comments•
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Stream your Linux desktop to a Smart TV via Miracast/WFD, DLNA, or Chromecast. - IlyaP358/fluxcast

1 points•Illium•6 days ago•0 comments•
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FreshThread BETA version: downloads, release notes and bug reports. Application source is maintained separately. - GG95-lab/FreshThread-BETA-version

1 points•Oxlamarr•7 days ago•0 comments•
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MailDeskt is a simple desktop email client for Resend. Manage multiple Resend inboxes, read, send and reply to emails from one focused desktop app.

1 points•jimmy_lee•7 days ago•0 comments•
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The desktop interface has remained fundamentally unchanged for over two decades, relying on legacy paradigms that haven't scaled to meet ...

1 points•ognarb•7 days ago•0 comments•
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A desktop-style archive of textured GLB models from Katamari Damacy and We Love Katamari.

1 points•bookofjoe•7 days ago•0 comments•

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