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After almost three years of development, SuperTuxKart kart racing game finally released new major 1.5 version few days ago.

The new release of this game introduced Supersampling Anti-Aliasing (SSAA) support. Meaning that it can render game resolution higher than current screen size (even over maximum display resolution). It greatly improved the graphics quality, which is however extremely heavy that may lower frame rate.

You may enable this feature by going to “Graphics” setting page and set render resolution higher than 100%.

As you can see in the screenshot above, the setting page also added new “Performance test of the current settings” benchmark button. By clicking on the option, it starts a self-driving game with single loop track, and prints the performance test results, such as FPS, duration, and your current settings when it ends.

Besides that, the Vulkan support now goes stable. It added spotlight support and significant updates to the Vulkan renderer. And, user can now go to “Custom settings…” under Graphics to easily switch the render driver to Vulkan.

SuperTuxKart 1.5 as well improved level of details (LoD) and shadow mapping logic, which significantly reduce the occurrence of the sudden or abrupt appearance of game elements. And, it improved sound scale allowing headphone users to easily pick the ideal sound level.

For the UI, the release added 6 new skins. The previous skins are now grouped as Classic with 5 variants, while a new Desert variant is added in this release. Cartoon theme now has five new variants, and each of them come with a background picture showing a scene from one of STK’s tracks.

Other changes in the release include three new egg hunts in Black Forest, Gran Paradisio Island and The Old Mine, and three new official fields in soccer mode. They are Oasis and XR-4R3N4 by CrystalDaEevee, and Hole Drop by CrystalDaEevee & Sven Andreas Belting.

There are as well following changes in the release:

• Move full-screen toogle, resoluation, and camera options into new Display setting page.
• Add “Screen space reflection” setting option.
• Redesign the game mode and track selection page, reducing the need for scrolling.
• Add ability to mark tracks and karts as favorites.
• Add new nicer spawn animation for Parachute and Bubblegums.
• New spotlight lighting effect for karts in night tracks.
• New music for Las Dunas Arena and Las Dunas Soccer.

For more about the release, see the official announcement.

How to Install SuperTuxKart 1.5 in Ubuntu

The new release packages as well as the source code are available to download via the link below:

For Linux, it’s a portable tarball. Download and decompress it, then run the “run_game.sh” script to start the game.

If you want to launch the game from app launcher (e.g., Gnome App Grid, overview search), then open Text Editor, create an empty document, then paste the following lines:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=SuperTuxKart 1.5
Icon=supertuxkart
GenericName=A 3D open-source kart racing game
Exec=/home/ji/MyApps/SuperTuxKart-1.5-linux-x86_64/run_game.sh
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
Type=Application
Categories=Game;ArcadeGame;
Keywords=tux;game;race;
PrefersNonDefaultGPU=true

Here you need to replace the game PATH that’s in bold, according to where you saved the folder to.

In my case, I created “MyApps” folder in user home, and put all portable apps/games folders into there.

After that, save the file as “supertuxkart.desktop” into .local/share/applications directory. NOTE: .local is hidden by default, press Ctrl+H in file chooser dialog to view/hide it.

If everything goes well, you’ll be able to launch the game from start menu (or Gnome overview) few moments later.

Note for missing app icon, just grab one from the web, name it as supertuxkart (.PNG or .SVG), finally put it into .local/share/icons directory.

In my case, I have both SuperTuxKart 1.4 installed from system repository, and v1.5 via the Linux tarball. So, I have 2 game icons in launcher, but with different names.

Uninstall:

To uninstall the kart racing game installed via the steps above, simply delete the game folder using file manager.

Then, also delete the supertuxkart.desktop file from .local/share/applications, and delete the icons (if any) from .local/share/icons directory.

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KDE announced the Plasma desktop 6.5 yesterday. See what’s new and how to install guide for (K)Ubuntu 25.10.

Plasma 6.5 introduced an Automatic theme selection in settings, allowing to automatically switch between light and dark themes according to the time of day.

In the Automatic mode, it uses the light theme for panels, menus, app windows, and wallpaper during the day, and automatically switch them to dark at night. While, user has the choice to set which light or dark theme, and which wallpapers to use.

The new desktop release updated its software app (aka Discover) with support for flatpak+https:// URLs. Meaning that, it allows to click “Install” button in Flathub.org page to automatically open Discover. And, it now can show you hardware drivers available for installation on operating systems supporting this feature.

KRunner, the app launcher, unit converter, calculator, that can be triggered by Alt+F2 or Alt+Space, now supports Fuzzy Search. Meaning even when you misspell an app’s name, it will probably still find it for you.

The built-in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server in the release now has the ability to share the clipboard. And, it no longer requires to manually create separate remote desktop accounts, as system’s existing user accounts now work as expected.

Zoom & Magnifier effect now has new “Enable text caret tracking” option. With it enabled, it will automatically jump to the position of the text insertion point, when you moving around the screen.

Other changes in Plasma 6.5 include:

• Rounded window corners (include bottom corners) for default Breeze themes.
• Add “Pinned clipboard items” feature.
• Hibernate system from the login screen.
• Inform when printer’s ink or toner running low or empty.
• Ability to see missed notifications while you were in Do Not Disturb mode.
• “Mute Microphone” key or Meta+Mute shortcut mutes all microphones rather than just the active one.
• Configure rotary dials and touch rings on your drawing tablet in System Settings -> Drawing Tablet
• Add general Application Permissions page to manage app (include Flatpak apps) permissions.
• Add more info about game controllers in System Settings’ Game Controller page.
• Orca screen reader now reads out changes to the Caps Lock state.
• Show a system notification when plug in a device.
• Ability to re-order virtual desktops from the Pager widget (Wayland only).
• Experimental support for Wayland picture-in-picture protocol.
• Add “overlay planes” support for compatible GPU.

For more about it, see the official release note in this page.

Install Plasma 6.5 in (K)Ubuntu 25.10

Arch Linux has made the Plasma 6.5 into its Extra-Testing repository.

For KUbuntu 25.10, the official Kubuntu Backports PPA has been updated with Plasma Desktop 6.5 along with most recent KDE Gear 25.08.2.

To get them, simply launch terminal (Konsole) and run the commands below one by one:

• First, run command to add the Backports PPA:

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports

  It should automatically update caches after adding PPA. Just in case, you may run sudo apt update to manually refresh cache.

• Then, install all available updates to upgrade your desktop to Plasma 6.5:

  sudo apt full-upgrade

Ubuntu 25.10 and other flavors without KDE Plasma may also install the desktop environment by running the command below after added the PPA:

sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop

Though this is not a good idea as it might mess your current desktop appearance.

Finally, restart your computer to apply changes.

Uninstall KDE Plasma 6.5:

If you installed the 6.5 version of this desktop environment in KUbuntu 25.10 from PPA, simply open terminal (Konsole) and run command below to uninstall:

sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports

This command will install ppa-purge command line tool, and use it to purge the PPA, which also downgrade all the packages installed from it. Also, you need to restart computer to apply changes.

VirtualBox, the free open-source hypervisor software by Oracle, released new 7.2.4 version yesterday.

This is the second maintenance update for the latest 7.2 release series, features only include some bug-fixes, translation updates and minor new features.

First, the new release added initial support for Linux Kernel 6.18, which is still in RC development stage. Meaning it now works for Linux with this mainline kernel, either running as host OS or guest in virtual machine.

The release fixed Linux Guest Additions compile issue for RHEL 9.6 / 9.7 and their derivatives, such as Alma Linux 9. It also fixed Guest Additions installation issue on Windows XP SP2.

It as well fixed the VirtualBox VM Manager crash issue when the Windows host OS was resuming from sleep, and, fixed NAT networking breaks when adding additional port forwarding rule.

Other changes include translation updates with support for Traditional Chinese, Greek, Swedish, Hungarian and Indonesian. For more, see the official ChangeLog page.

Get VirtualBox 7.2.4

The official packages for Linux, Windows, macOS, and Solaris hosts are available to download in its website via the link below:

NOTE: the new release so far does NOT support Ubuntu 25.10 host OS, even the package for 25.04 does not install on it due to dependency issue.