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Your Windows habits are dangerous on Linux—here are 4 things to avoid  How-To Geek

AMD EPYC 9755 Delivers Decisive Performance Leadership Over Xeon 6 Granite Rapids With Nearly 500 Benchmarks  Phoronix

Back in December I carried out some fresh benchmarks of the Intel Xeon 6980P vs. AMD EPYC 9755 for these competing 128 core server processors using the latest Linux software stack before closing out 2025. That was done with nearly 200 benchmarks and the AMD EPYC Turin Zen 5 processor delivered terrific performance as we have come to enjoy out of the 5th Gen EPYC line-up over the past year and several months. Since then I have ratcheted up the benchmarks with nearly 500 benchmarks between the AMD EPYC 9755 and Intel Xeon 6980P processors for an even more comprehensive look at these CPUs atop Linux 6.18 LTS.

Nvidia Launches Native GeForce Now App For Linux In Growing Support For The Operating System  GameSpot

Open Gaming Collective unites developers to standardize the Linux gaming experience  Sportskeeda Tech

Open Gaming Collective (OGC) formed to unify Linux gaming  KitGuru

Linux's user-space block device driver framework "ublk" for implementing virtual block device drivers in user-space relayed by IO_uring is introducing batch I/O dispatch infrastructure...

These are the 3 coolest Linux apps I found this week  How-To Geek

Linux's ublk Adding Batch I/O Dispatch Capability For Greater Performance  Phoronix

AerynOS 2026.01 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS, GNOME 49.3, and More  9to5Linux

cpx Introduced as a Faster, Modern Replacement for Linux cp  Linuxiac

I Switched From Windows 11 to Linux Mint. Here Are 7 Things It Does Way Better  PCMag

I Switched From Windows 11 to Linux Mint. Here Are 7 Things It Does Way Better  PCMag UK

I Switched From Windows 11 to Linux Mint. Here Are 7 Things It Does Way Better  me.pcmag.com

Microsoft Reportedly Working On Building Back Trust In Windows As More Users Leave For Linux  GameSpot

In kicking off 2026, AerynOS developers have continued to make progress on their build tooling and infrastructure for this Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS. They have also been working on a new website design and other updated branding to start the new year...

GPD release their own statement on the confusion with Bazzite Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Sidero Labs Enhances Talos Linux and Omni to Improve Bare-Metal Kubernetes Reliability and Governance  TipRanks

How a Grassroots Gaming Collective Is Rewriting Linux’s Future on Desktop  WebProNews

This week the Rust DRM changes intended for the Linux 7.0 merge window were sent out by Danilo Krummrich. The Apple Silicon Asahi Linux "AGX" DRM kernel driver still isn't positioned for upstreaming to the mainline kernel so that leaves most of the Rust DRM upstream work currently around the NVIDIA Nova driver as well as the Arm Mali Tyr drivers...