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Proton 10.0-3 Released For Steam Play With Dozens Of Fixes, More Games Working

Phoronix - Fri, 11/14/2025 - 06:32
Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 10.0-3 as the newest stable update to this Wine-based software that powers Steam Play for enabling countless Windows games to run often extremely well under Linux...

New Patch Moves AMD GCN 1.0 GPUs Over To AMDGPU Driver By Default

Phoronix - Fri, 11/14/2025 - 03:39
Following the recent patch proposal for moving AMD GCN 1.1 generation GPUs over to the AMDGPU Linux driver by default in place of the legacy Radeon driver, a similar patch has now been proposed for the GCN 1.0 graphics processors. AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs are at parity with the AMDGPU driver to the Radeon driver while needing this newer kernel driver for enjoying RADV Vulkan support, better performance, and overall a better experience...

Bcachefs Rolls Out Metadata Version Reconcile "rebalance_v2" Feature

Phoronix - Fri, 11/14/2025 - 02:06
For those making use of the out-of-tree Bcachefs file-system driver, rolling out to the snapshot/nightly testing channel is the long-in-development "rebalance_v2" functionality now known as the "bcachefs_metadata_version_reconcile" feature...

Possible Setback For Linux x86_64 Laptops: Prominent Developer Joins Qualcomm

Phoronix - Fri, 11/14/2025 - 00:51
Back in early September we reported on a Linux hardware enablement leader planning to leave Red Hat. Hans de Goede has been a longtime contributor to improving Intel/AMD Linux desktop/laptop hardware support and in fact an x86 platform drivers subsystem maintainer. We now found out where this lead Linux x86 driver developer ended up: Qualcomm...

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