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Framework Laptop 13 Pro Review: The Best Linux Laptop Ever  Gizmodo

They hired a “specialist” – GOG Galaxy is coming to Linux  OC3D

Wayfire 0.11 Wayland Compositor Adds Better Fractional Scaling, HDR Rendering  9to5Linux

New Linux Patches Boost 1% Low Framerates On Steam Deck By 31%  Steam Deck HQ

Why Linux Firewalls Are Moving From iptables to nftables  HackerNoon

GOG confirms work on GOG Galaxy for Linux, no release date yet  VideoCardz.com

GOG Galaxy Is Coming to Linux as a Native Application  TechPowerUp

GOG is finally bringing its all-in-one Galaxy launcher to Linux  XDA

Starling: A New Linux Desktop Written In Swift, Own Wayland Compositor & Written With AI  Phoronix

There's yet another new open-source desktop option for Linux users in the era of new open-source projects largely written via AI/LLMs. Starling is this new project largely written via Claude and using the Swift programming language for the desktop while having its own Wayland compositor implemented in C. It also includes a built-in X11 server for handling X11 clients...

GOG announces Galaxy app is coming to Linux after hiring a "specialist"  Digital Foundry

ClamAV Setup: Linux Antivirus in 12 Steps, 75 Min [2026]  tech-insider.org

Tengu Botnet Reboots Compromised Linux Devices When Defenders Kill Its Process  The Hacker News

GOG Confirms Plans to Bring Galaxy Launcher to Linux - SDHQ  Steam Deck HQ

Star Ocean games arrive DRM-free on GOG with Linux support incoming  games.gg

AI-Assisted Bug Hunt Uncovers Linux Kernel 0-Day in net/sched  Infosecurity Magazine

Dusk Audio Sunset Circuits: six synthesizers in one free plugin (mac, linux, win)  synth anatomy

GOG confirms it is working on getting GOG Galaxy running on Linux  PC Gamer

A recent mini PC being benchmarked at Phoronix is the BOSGAME VTA-439 that employs the new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 Gorgon Point SoC. With the BOSGAME mini PC having shipped with Microsoft Windows 11, here are some comparison benchmarks of the out-of-the-box Windows 11 performance up against Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 while also tossing the rolling-release, highly-optimized Arch Linux based CachyOS into the benchmarking mix.

CachyOS Outperforming Windows 11, Slight Advantage Over Ubuntu & Fedora On AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470  Phoronix