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3 modern Linux apps to try this weekend (April 10 - 12)  How-To Geek

7 reasons Qubes is better than your Linux distro  How-To Geek

The Linux 7.0 kernel is gearing up for its stable release and should be out this coming Sunday, 12 April, barring any major last minute issues...

Even the French government is switching to Linux now in a bid for 'digital sovereignty'  PC Gamer

Good News! France Starts Plan to Replace Windows With Linux on Government Desktops  It's FOSS

France Dumps Windows for Linux in Push for Tech Independence  The Tech Buzz

French government abandons Windows: state-owned PCs are switched to Linux  Mezha

The French government is migrating workstations to Linux.  GameGPU

UNIHIKER Terminal Cyberdeck - Mini Linux handheld Computer  Hackster.io

France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech  TechCrunch

France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech  Yahoo

Valve developer makes Linux gaming better on 8GB graphics cards  Digital Foundry

Firefox 149 vs. Chrome 147 Web Browser Performance On Linux  Phoronix

It has been a while since featuring a showdown of the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers on Linux. With some fresh benchmarks being overdue plus the new JetStream 3 browser benchmark having been announced last week, here is some fresh data for how these two dominant web browsers are competing on the modern Linux desktop from an Intel Panther Lake system running Ubuntu 26.04.

Why I'm skipping the "AI PC" trend and building a "privacy PC" with Linux instead  How-To Geek

A big kernel patch series was posted today by longtime Linux developer Thomas Gleixner. The set of 38 patches amount to some big time "spring cleaning" with addressing some code remnants still around that originated back in the very early Linux v0.1 kernel while some other code being cleaned up dates back to the Linux 1.3~2.1 kernel series from the 90's...

Gaming on Linux might get smoother: Valve reportedly working on VRAM optimization and more  Sportskeeda Tech

Bitland, the Chinese OEM that manufactured systems for Lenovo and other companies until being added to the US Entity List due to being accused of using Uyghur forced labor, is expected to see a WMI driver added to the Linux 7.1 kernel for better supporting Bitland laptops...

Bitland WMI Laptop Driver Slated For Linux 7.1  Phoronix

France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, calling US tech dependence a strategic risk  XDA