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Valve's Proton Test Build For Steam Machine And Linux Gaming Adds FSR 4 For RDNA 3  HotHardware

Valve’s Steam Machine Gives Linux Gaming a New Living-Room Push  Linuxiac

Valve today finally revealed pricing on their SteamOS Linux-powered Steam Machine living room PC. Given the ongoing RAM and storage pricing pressure, the Steam Machine pricing comes in at the high-end...

Steam Machine Launches, Priced $1049 To $1428 USD  Phoronix

Steam Machines Is Up for Reservation from $1,049 with Arch Linux-Based SteamOS 3  9to5Linux

Steam Machine pricing and launch announced and yes it's pricey  GamingOnLinux

The Steam Machine Is An Iconoclastic Computer Born In Unforgiving Times  Aftermath

We brought Hermes Agent to iMessage, even on Linux and Windows  HackerNoon

I finally got KDE looking the way I always wanted — and it starts with one setting most people skip  MakeUseOf

Benchmarking Bcachefs 1.38.6: The First Release No Longer "Experimental"  Phoronix

Released last week was Bcachefs 1.38.6 with a host of performance improvements to this out-of-tree, copy-on-write file-system. Given all the performance improvements and this being the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the "experimental" flag on the file-system, I decided to fire up some benchmarks looking at how the Bcachefs file-system performance has changed with this new version.

AMD release FSR Upscaling 4.1 for Radeon RX 7000 series / RDNA 3  GamingOnLinux

Over the past half-year, Xfwl4 has been developed as a Wayland compositor for the Xfce desktop environment. Released this weekend was the first preview release of Xfwl4 in alpha form...

It's been 14 years already since Microsoft announced the Surface RT hybrid tablet as their first-generation Surface device for going up against the Apple iPad. All these years later, this NVIDIA Tegra 3 powered device is finally seeing a mainline Linux kernel driver for supporting battery and charger status...

Linux Finally Lands Battery/Charger Driver For 14 Year Old Microsoft Surface RT Tablet  Phoronix

MSYS2 And The No-Fuss Way To Get More GNU Into Your Windows  Hackaday

MSYS2 And The No-Fuss Way To Get More GNU Into Your Windows  Hackaday

Back in March AMD introduced ROCDXG to improve their Windows Subsystem for Linux support. This improved Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" support with the ROCm compute stack is a cleaneer architecture, open-source compared to their legacy WSL code having closed bits, and more robust handling. Today they issued a new ROCDXG library release to further enhance their WSL support...

AMD Updates ROCDXG To Deliver Better ROCm Experience On WSL  Phoronix

MECCHA CHAMELEON is a hide-and-seek body painting game taking over Steam  GamingOnLinux