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Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base  Tom's Hardware

Building off Friday's release of Wine 10.11 for running Windows games and applications on Linux is now Hangover 10.11 for this Wine-based software used for running Windows games/applications cross-architecture such as on AArch64/ARM64 systems...

Wine-Based Hangover Project Drops QEMU In Favor Of FEX & Box64 For Emulation  Phoronix

It looks like AMD is preparing to introduce some new APUs/SoCs still relying on RDNA1-based graphics with open-source GPU driver patches posted this week extending the "Cyan Skillfish" support to some new APU devices...

I tried this self-hosted Cron dashboard for managing my automated Linux tasks  XDA

Wayback is a new open-source project working on providing an X11 compatibility layer for running full X11 desktop environments using Wayland components with a rootful XWayland server...

Wayback Is An Experimental X11 Compatibility Layer For X11 Desktops Using Wayland  Phoronix

5 More Beginner-Friendly Linux Distros  How-To Geek

Released earlier this month were various GNOME 49 Alpha 0 packages including for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor while out this weekend are the "Alpha 1" releases...

With Q2 quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and other Linux/open-source news for the quarter...

Week in review: Backdoor found in SOHO devices running Linux, high-risk WinRAR RCE flaw patched  Help Net Security

Every Windows user should keep a live version of Linux handy — here's why  XDA

5 reasons I prefer this distro over Ubuntu as a Windows-to-Linux convert  XDA

I'd give everything for a pre-configured Android gaming handheld  Android Authority

Linux Desktop: What Makes KDE Plasma So Appealing?  The New Stack

Linux Phones, the New HDMI, and More: Weekly Roundup  How-To Geek

The past number of months has seen work by AMD Linux driver engineers in enabling cleaner shader functionality for various generations of GPUs to help ensure user/application isolation. Being merged overnight as part of the AMDGPU "fixes" for Linux 6.16 is cleaner shader support for more AMD GFX9 / CDNA hardware, notably to benefit various Instinct accelerators with this security feature...

Linux 6.16 Extends Cleaner Shader Support To More AMD CDNA/GFX9 GPUs  Phoronix

The RADV Vulkan driver's ray-tracing performance has improved a lot over time such as shown within yesterday's RADV vs. AMDVLK performance comparison on Strix Point. Coincidentally, merged today is yet another ray-tracing optimization to benefit RDNA3 (GFX11) and newer AMD graphics processors...

Threat Actors Exploit Windows and Linux Server Vulnerabilities to Deploy Web Shells  GBHackers News