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1. Xbox Cloud Gaming looks worse on Linux — here's why it's bad and how to fix it  The Verge
2. Xbox Cloud Gaming team (unofficially) addresses performance issues on Linux  OnMSFT.com
3. Microsoft's Game Pass streaming looks worse on Linux—unless you use Edge  PCWorld
4. Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming looks worse on Linux than Windows  Ars Technica
5. Microsoft's xCloud looks terrible on Linux  Fudzilla
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Intel Alder Lake Benchmark Battle Pits Windows 11 Vs Linux With Surprising Results  HotHardware

The past few months we have been closely covering the Coreboot port to an MSI retail motherboard for Intel Alder Lake. This port carried out by the 3mdeb consulting firm has been with their downstream "Dasharo" firmware based on Coreboot while as of yesterday the motherboard port has begun landing in upstream Coreboot...

The 12 Best Vim Plugins to Improve Your Workflow  MUO - MakeUseOf

Canonical engineers have been continuing their quest to improve the start-up time for the Snap version of Mozilla Firefox that is used by default on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. With the latest improvements now pushed to the Firefox Snap, they are seeing around a 50% reduction in start-time for the web browser...

Lenovo ThinkPad Ryzen 6000 laptops with Microsoft Pluton refuse to run Linux by default  Neowin

Can SONiC Be The Linux Of Networking? | Slide Deck  TheRegister

Sneaky New Orbit Malware Backdoors Linux Devices  Threatpost

Xbox Cloud Gaming team (unofficially) addresses performance issues on Linux  OnMSFT.com

Cyber Security Today, July 8, 2022 - IT provider recovering from a cyber attack, more action from Karakurt and Chinese attackers and new Linux malware  IT World Canada

AMD Ryzen PRO 6860Z powered Lenovo Z13 notebook with Microsoft Pluton co-processor can't boot Linux operating systems  VideoCardz.com

This 'evasive' new Linux malware creates a backdoor to steal passwords and more  ZDNet

Windows 11 vs. Linux Performance For Intel Core i9 12900K In Mid-2022  Phoronix

Last year when the Intel Core i9 12900K "Alder Lake" processor launched, Windows 11 was outperforming Linux to much surprise in general but explainable due to some late Linux kernel patches around Intel's hybrid architecture. Back in February I looked at the situation again and Linux started outrunning Windows 11 on the i9-12900K with the latest Linux kernel at the time. But with a few more months having passed and for the Intel Alder Lake hybrid processors to mature under Windows and Linux, how do things stand now? Here are some new benchmarks.

What is Visual Studio Code? Microsoft’s extensible code editor  InfoWorld

With the upcoming feature-packed Linux 5.20 kernel adding to the growing list of features is Intel SGX2 support looking like it is set to land...

At least some of Lenovo's new AMD Rembrandt powered laptops with Microsoft Pluton security co-processor are set by default to only trust Microsoft's key and not the Microsoft 3rd Party UEFI CA Key that Linux distributions and others use for UEFI Secure Boot support. Thus by default only Microsoft Windows will boot with the default firmware configuration on some new Lenovo laptops...

Wayland-Protocols 1.26 was released on Thursday as the collection of protocol specifications for Wayland. With Wayland-Protocols 1.26 is the new Single Pixel Buffer protocol and enhancements to existing protocols...

Red Hat engineers continue working on Stratis Storage as their means of providing Btrfs and (Open)ZFS like features atop the mature XFS paired with DM + Clevis + LUKS. Stratis 3.2 is out today as the newest update to this Linux storage stack...

Russian OS producer Astra Linux plans Moscow IPO -Vedomosti  Reuters.com