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Linux fans face disappointment as Tuxedo cancels Snapdragon X Elite laptop  TechRadar

With the great upstream support for AMD Radeon graphics in the Linux kernel and Mesa, most desktop users / gamers / enthusiasts are best off just using the latest code shipped by their distributions or via the enthusiast-supported third-party archives/repositories. But for those on older enterprise Linux distributions, Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 was recently released for shipping that packaged AMD Linux graphics driver stack. This 25.20 series is the big one where they are now officially supporting the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver in place of their own former Vulkan Linux driver...

Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 Released - "Exclusively Open-Source" With RADV  Phoronix

GNOME 49.2 Released with Improved Handling of Tiled Monitors and Sticky Keys  9to5Linux

Following the release of ROCm 7.1 from just under one month ago, ROCm 7.1.1 is now available with expanded Linux operating system support, continued Instinct MI350 series work, more large language models working on RDNA4 GPUs, and other enhancements...

Rocky Linux 10.1 release brings soft reboots and new toolchains  How-To Geek

Collabora Office is an open source desktop suite for Windows, macOS and Linux  BetaNews

KDE Plasma 6.8 Drops Native X11 for Exclusive Wayland Shift  WebProNews

I use Rescuezilla to swap between operating systems and I love it  XDA

5 Linux desktop environments that make ditching Windows 10 easy - including my top pick  ZDNET

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Linux Performance Up ~9% One Year Later At ~85% Power Use  Phoronix

It's been just over one year now since the launch of the Core Ultra 9 285K and other Arrow Lake desktop processors. For those that may be considering an Arrow Lake CPU this holiday season for a Linux desktop or just curious how the power and performance has evolved one year later, here are some leading-edge benchmarks of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K compared to the launch-day performance last October.

KDE developers announced they are going "all-in on a Wayland future" and with the Plasma 6.8 desktop it will become Wayland-exclusive. The Plasma X11 session is going away...

Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows 10 — here’s where 780,000 users went  Windows Central

A Fedora special interest group is being proposed to help improve production stability of Fedora Linux and better handling incident management when problems do arise...

The Linux 6.18 kernel is anticipated for release this coming Sunday while this week a last-minute crisis was averted following reports of a kernel crash from recent ACPI code changes...

Urgent ACPI Revert For Linux 6.18 To Deal With Some Hardware Crashing  Phoronix

This keyboard-driven launcher for Linux replaced my taskbar entirely  XDA

Collabora Launches Desktop Office Suite for Linux  It's FOSS

Rocky Linux 10.1 Arrives with Soft Reboots, XFS Enhancements, and More  9to5Linux