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These Linux Distros Are the Best for Beginners to Start With  How-To Geek

Linux users are finally realizing what it takes to help others make the switch  XDA

You Can Get KDE's Dolphin File Manager on Windows, and It’s Weird  How-To Geek

While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a 20% performance boost. Ubuntu maker Canonical in cooperation with Intel is preparing to disable these security mitigations in the Ubuntu packages in order to recoup this lost performance...

Long-time rivals Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time, have dinner — 'No major kernel decisions were made, but maybe next dinner'  Tom's Hardware

4 Obscure Linux Apps I Use All the Time  How-To Geek

The 3mdeb firmware consulting firm recently hosted another one of their virtual events about open-source firmware and beer. There they talked about AMD's ongoing work around OpenSIL for open-source CPU silicon initialization. In addition, they shared work on an experimental port of OpenSIL back to Zen 1 processors...

Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time.  The Verge

Denmark is switching to Linux  MSN

Closed-Source Meets Open-Source: Microsoft’s Founder Bill Gates and Linux’s Creator Linus Torvalds Cross Paths For The First Time in 50 Years  Wccftech

Btop++: Linux System Monitoring Tool That is Definitely Better than Top  It's FOSS

7 Reasons Why Qubes Is Better Than Your Linux Distro  How-To Geek

Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham put out a blog post today reaffirming the KDE Plasma's intent that Wayland is their main focus and X11 support continues to be maintained but eventually it will go away. Nate Graham also noted around 73% of KDE Plasma 6 users are already using the Wayland session...

I Installed KDE Plasma on Ubuntu (And Quickly Regretted It)  How-To Geek

I used North Korea's leaked Linux distribution, and it still has secrets a decade later  XDA

Denmark is switching to Linux  Yahoo

Denmark is switching to Linux  PC Gamer

8 Linux Desktop Distributions to Try  The New Stack

SolydXK: An Impressive Linux Distribution Under the Radar  The New Stack

Ahead of the all-important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cycle, Canonical is looking to raise the required RISC-V ISA baseline for its Ubuntu 25.10 release due out later this year...