The year of the Linux desktop and VPN clients

While nobody knows when, and even if, the long-awaited year of the Linux desktop will actually come, the Linux ecosystem has undeniably made a lot of progress over the last few years. This week I tested OpenSuse Tumbleweed , a rolling-release distribution that ships with both Wayland , a new graphical display system and successor to the venerable X11 , and PipeWire , a new audio (and video) server…