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Framework is teasing a lot of Linux for its April 21st event  The Verge

I tested CuerdOS and its unique app lineup is even better than its blazing speed  ZDNET

Linux does these 3 things better than Windows, and the gap is widening  How-To Geek

Why Ubuntu 26.04 will thrill gamers - and it's not just the performance bump  ZDNET

Merged back in Linux 6.19 was the ASUS Armoury driver to enhance support for the ROG Ally gaming handhelds and modern ASUS laptops. The ASUS Armoury driver enables various laptop features to be toggled under Linux and since its introduction it has continued expanding support for more ASUS devices. Ahead of Linux 7.0 coming out on Sunday, a few more devices are now supported by this upstream driver...

ASUS Armoury Driver Supports A Few More Laptops With Linux 7.0  Phoronix

Stop believing these 4 myths about Linux—they're all outdated now  How-To Geek

5 open-source projects that secretly power the world  How-To Geek

This Linux distro will give your old Windows 10 PC a new lease on life  How-To Geek

I ditched Windows for SteamOS on my PC, and gaming is way better now  MakeUseOf

Ubuntu is still the only Linux distro I recommend to beginners—here are 3 reasons why  How-To Geek

RISC-V processor IP purveyor SiFive just announced they have raised $400 million USD in an over-subscribed Series G financing round. This latest funding is so they can further focus on delivering high performance RISC-V designs for the data center...

SiFive Raises $400M To Double Down On High Performance RISC-V For Data Centers  Phoronix

In addition to RISC-V discontinuing its eXecute In Place "XIP" kernel support for Linux 7.1, there is an optimized strnlen() function coming for Linux 7.1 on RISC-V as well as some other optimized functions...

RISC-V Optimized strnlen Implementation For Linux 7.1 Yields Big Speed-Up  Phoronix

Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics driver team primarily working on the RADV Vulkan driver has come up with a new interesting creation: patches to the Linux kernel and KDE for sharply improving the gaming experience for those running systems with limited amounts of video memory. Such as for graphics cards with just 8GB of dedicated vRAM, the patches now available -- initially on CachyOS for a nice out-of-the-box experience -- provide a noticeably better Linux gaming experience...

Valve Developer Improves The Linux Gaming Experience For Limited vRAM Hardware  Phoronix

Solus Says It Has No Plans to Implement Age Verification  Linuxiac

My top 5 Linux desktops of 2026 (so far) - and I've tried them all  ZDNET

Beyond the capabilities of just the Vulkan Video API, the FFmpeg multimedia library has made interesting Vulkan-accelerated adaptations using compute shaders. With Vulkan compute they've implemented Apple ProRes video acceleration, FFV1 decode, and other features. The newest Vulkan feature now in place for FFmpeg is 360 degree video conversion...