You hear declarations every year about the long-told "year of the Linux desktop" arriving this year, having arrived years ago ...

That isn't to say that KDE 5 is perfect. It's not. The new default Breeze Plasma desktop theme has a chunky, half-baked look to it that's not at all to my taste. However, it's easy enough to change to ...

If you combine the Xfce desktop with the Compiz compositing window manager, you get a desktop with a bit more panache than if you were to use Xfce alone. Compiz helps to turn Xfce into something akin ...