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Intel Core i9 13900K "Raptor Lake" Running Great With Clear Linux, Sizable Wins Over Ubuntu  Phoronix

Following my Core i5 13600K and Core i9 13900K Linux reviews for these new Raptor Lake processors, which were carried out under Ubuntu Linux, I've been carrying out my usual follow-up tests like looking at how well these new Intel CPUs are running under other distributions. To little surprise, Intel's own rolling-release Clear Linux distribution can offer some big-time improvements over a stock Ubuntu installation.

How to Install Portmaster in Linux  Make Tech Easier

Surprising probably no one, most people use the Steam Deck as a handheld  GamingOnLinux

CKS Dumps 2022 With All Recent Updates  NewzHook

American Truck Simulator - Texas releases on November 15th  GamingOnLinux

Trashing Files From the Linux Command Line Is Easy With trash-cli  MUO - MakeUseOf

AMD becomes a 'Diamond' sponsor of OBS Studio  GamingOnLinux

AMD becomes a 'Diamond' sponsor of OBS Studio  GamingOnLinux

Comedy point and click adventure Plot of the Druid is now in Early Access  GamingOnLinux

Comedy point and click adventure Plot of the Druid is now in Early Access  GamingOnLinux

GE-Proton 7-39 released improving Overwatch 2 for Steam Deck & Linux  GamingOnLinux

GE-Proton 7-39 released improving Overwatch 2 for Steam Deck & Linux  GamingOnLinux

More Development Activity Ticking Up Around Vulkan For Blender  Phoronix

There has long been plans for supporting the Vulkan API with the Blender 3D modelling open-source software but there has been a lack of developers working on it. Fortunately, things are starting to (slowly) come together on Vulkan enablement for Blender...

Best Cryptocurrency Wallets for Ubuntu and Linux  Captain Altcoin

With the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT / RX 7900 XTX having been announced last week and set to ship on 13 December, it's down to crunch time for ensuring that the open-source Linux driver support is in shape. Unlike on the Windows side where it's just expected of the user to navigate to AMD.com and download a convenient driver installer, on Linux that's not exactly the case. AMD will likely have their Radeon Software for Linux driver package on their website but that is limited in scope to their few supported enterprise/LTS Linux distributions supported, while most gamers/enthusiasts will be left wondering about the Linux kernel and Mesa versioning requirements...

Cemu emulator for Wii U now provides an AppImage  GamingOnLinux

Cemu emulator for Wii U now provides an AppImage  GamingOnLinux

An ugly hack within the Linux kernel that has been in mainline for over three years has been called out. Due to a buggy X.Org Server / xf86-video-modesetting DDX, the Linux kernel has been imposing different behavior on whether a process starts with "X" and in turn disable the atomic mode-setting support...