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I replaced three productivity apps with built-in Linux tools and didn’t miss them  MakeUseOf

Version 0.20 of the popular wlroots Wayland support library is nearing its official release. Over the past week were two release candidates for wlroots 0.20 were published for this library used by Sway, Wayfire, Cage, Gamescope, and numerous other Wayland compositors...

On The Inside: This writer's daily driver is a Linux laptop  How-To Geek

8 Ubuntu tips and tricks for first-time users  How-To Geek

3 reasons most people stick with Windows, even though Linux is free  How-To Geek

Low-Cost BeaglePlay SBC Gains Fully Upstream PowerVR Graphics with Vulkan 1.2  LinuxGizmos.com

This is the advanced feature every new Linux user needs to know  How-To Geek

I run terminal commands on my Linux PC from my Android home screen—here's how  How-To Geek

I tried running Linux on an Apple silicon Mac and regretted it  MakeUseOf

I test 40 smartphones a year — this one is trying something no Galaxy or Pixel will  Android Police

If you only use Ubuntu, you’re missing out on what Linux is all about  How-To Geek

A patch series sent out for review this weekend can significantly improve the system hibernation performance under Linux. Particularly for those with slower SSDs, the patches can make Linux hibernate up to several times faster...

Linux Kernel Improvement Can Make Hibernation Several Times Faster With Slow SSDs  Phoronix

Weathr app turns the Linux terminal into a live weather display — background ASCII animated real-time weather show is powered by Open-Meteo  Tom's Hardware

Announced last year by consulting firm LunarG was KosmicKrisp as a Vulkan-on-Metal driver for efficiently leveraging the Vulkan API on Apple macOS systems as an alternative to the MoltenVK project. KosmicKrisp was upstreamed for Mesa 26.0 and continues making great progress for opening up more Vulkan possibilities in Apple's world...

The NFS server changes for Linux 7.0 happen to include some nice improvements for this big kernel version number release...

The power sequencing subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 cycle. Typically not an area of the kernel too exciting but one new driver addition is the "pwrseq-pcie-m2" to provide power sequencing for PCIe M.2 connectors...

Power Sequencing Driver For PCIe M.2 Connectors Makes It Into Linux 7.0  Phoronix

Linux kernel 7.0 finally abandons the 28-year-old Intel 440BX chipset — driver removal marks goodbye to the legendary motherboard chipset  Tom's Hardware

Linux 7.0 is adding mainline kernel support for, uh, Rock Band 4 guitars  XDA