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The Steam on Linux marketshare ended 2024 with a 2.29% against Windows at 96.1% and macOS at 1.61%. The Steam Survey numbers for January were posted this evening and they show a sizable dip for the Linux gaming use but there are also other odd discrepancies with the updated monthly figures...

Steam Linux Use Dips For January 2025 Amid Odd Survey Numbers  Phoronix

I Tried the Ghostty Terminal on Linux. Does It Live Up to Its Hype?  How-To Geek

Ditch Microsoft’s Windows 11: Nitrux 3.9.0 is the faster, more secure Linux alternative you need  BetaNews

Filesystems on Linux: When Should You Not Use Ext4?  Review Geek

Filesystems on Linux: When Should You Not Use Ext4?  How-To Geek

Immutable Distro Nitrux 3.9 Is Here with NVIDIA 570 Graphics Driver, Many Goodies  9to5Linux

Security-Focused ParrotOS 6.3 Distro Brings New and Updated Tools, Improvements  9to5Linux

The 5 Best Ways to Back Up Your Files on Ubuntu  How-To Geek

GTK developers have been holding another hackfest this week for the annual FOSDEM developer conference happening this weekend in Brussels. GTK developers are working toward the GTK 4.18 stable release and continuing to think more about GTK 5...

Merged on Friday to the Linux 6.14 kernel were the Kbuild feature changes for this cycle. Most notable with these kernel build changes is the introduction of the gendwarfksyms tool that is used as part of the ongoing Rust programming language push within the Linux kernel...

How to Get Adobe Photoshop on Linux Using Wine  How-To Geek

During the month of January on Phoronix were 292 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 13 featured-length Linux hardware reviews and other multi-page benchmark specials. Here's a look back at the most exciting Linux/open-source news and content over the past month...

The RISC-V CPU architecture feature updates have now been submitted and merged for the nearly-over Linux 6.14 merge window...

Linux 6.14 RISC-V Kernel Adds Support For T-Head Vector Extensions, GhostWrite  Phoronix

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekly recap of all the interesting KDE Plasma changes for the past week. With less than two weeks until the Plasma 6.3 stable release, Nate Graham began his weekly update by remarking that the Plasma 6.3 desktop is "looking pretty good!"..

The Best Linux Laptops of 2025  How-To Geek

While Wine 10.0 recently debuted with the initial Wine Wayland driver, that native Wayland support is still in early form with various limitations and yet-to-be-implemented features... One of the newly-opened merge requests for filling in another gap is clipboard support for the Wine Wayland driver...

"NOVA-Core" Patches Propose Building New NVIDIA Driver Piece-By-Piece In The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Red Hat engineers have been working on Nova as an open-source driver successor to the Nouveau driver for upstream NVIDIA GPU support within the Linux kernel that can be used with the Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan drivers. Unlike the prior larger RFC patch series, sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list today were some small patches for introducing "NOVA-Core" that would serve as the initial base for this modern NVIDIA Linux kernel DRM driver. Over time and succeeding kernel releases, the NOVA code would be built up until ultimately becoming a usable state for end-users...