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I Replaced Windows 11 With Linux Mint. Here Are 7 Things It Does Much Better  PCMag Australia

I Replaced Windows 11 With Linux Mint. Here Are 7 Things It Does Much Better  me.pcmag.com

In addition to AMD releasing the Ryzen AI Software 1.7 release on Friday, they also published a new version of their MLIR-AIE compiler toolchain for targeting AMD Ryzen AI NPU devices with this LLVM-based MLIR-focused stack...

Merged on Friday as part of this week's DRM kernel graphics driver fixes for the week is addressing a regression affecting many different users with the Linux 6.19 development kernel...

Newlle as a virtual AI assistant for the GNOME desktop with API integration for Google Gemini, OpenAI, Groq, and also local LLMs is out with a new release. Newelle has been steadily expanding its AI integration and capabilities and with the new Newelle 1.2 are yet more capabilities for those wanting AI on the GNOME desktop...

Vanilla OS 2 is the bulletproof Linux distro I recommend to friends  MakeUseOf

Gear News of the Week: Apple’s AI Wearable and a Phone That Can Boot Android, Linux, and Windows  WIRED

A new driver in the Linux 6.19 kernel is the ASUS Armoury driver for supporting additional functionality with the ROG Ally gaming handhelds and other ASUS ROG gaming hardware like their laptops. The ASUS Armoury driver builds off the existing ASUS WMI driver but provides some design improvements to make it better than handling it within the existing driver. There is support for adjusting the APU-allocated memory, Intel core count control for P and E cores, FHD and UHD mode switching for display panels, and other features typically only exposed via the system BIOS...

ASUS Armoury Driver For Linux 6.19 Picks Up Support For More ASUS Laptops  Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6.6 feature development work continues winding down while Plasma 6.7 has begun seeing more feature work. This week also saw at least nine different crash fixes affecting Plasma/KWin...

Nexus Mods Vortex To Get Linux Support in 2026, Thanks to Steam Hardware  TechPowerUp

Nexus Mods Vortex App Will Get Linux Support in 2026, Thanks to Steam Deck and Steam Machine  TechPowerUp

Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library "glibc" was released on Friday evening as the newest half-year feature update. This is a very feature packed update and even managed to be released ahead of the 1 February release plan...

Accelerated Linux page cache attacks detailed  SC Media

Fake cryptocurrency wallet apps target Linux users with cryptostealers  SC Media

Five Free Linux File Managers Earn Top Recommendation  findarticles.com

Alpine Linux Turns Equinix Metal Exit Into an Infrastructure Upgrade  LXer: Linux News

Raspberry Pi's USB upgrade, Photoshop on Linux, and more: Linux news roundup  How-To Geek

Raspbeery Pi's USB upgrade, Photoshop on Linux, and more: Linux news roundup  How-To Geek

Following the release of Wine 11.0 stable just under two weeks ago, Wine 11.1 is now available as the first of the bi-weekly development snapshots for Wine in leading toward the Wine 12.0 release next January...