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5 Mini PCs You Can Buy With Linux Preinstalled  MSN

6 Linux Replacements for Google Drive  Review Geek

6 Linux Replacements for Google Drive  How-To Geek

WinApps: Virtualized Windows Apps On Linux, Plus Windowing  Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet

Linux Gaming Gains Momentum In 2025 Amid Performance Enhancements And Market Expansion  MENAFN.COM

Valve is supporting Lenovo with the Legion Go S gaming handheld running their Arch Linux based SteamOS. Beyond the fanfare at CES, Valve has been collaborating with Lenovo on engineering resources for ensuring the Legion Go S is running well with SteamOS and in turn the mainline Linux kernel. It turns out from a recent sneaky patch, Valve quietly added support to the Linux kernel for what ended up being the Lenovo Legion Go S controller/input handling...

Valve Snuck The Lenovo Legion Go S Controller Support Into The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

Why Linux Is the Perfect OS for Your Mini PC  How-To Geek

AMD has sent out their initial pull request of "new stuff" for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver of feature additions they want to make for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel. Most notable from this week's submission to DRM-Next is preparing a lot of new GPU hardware support...

OneXPlayer produces a line of handheld gaming consoles powered by AMD or Intel SoCs. These devices ship with Windows out-of-the-box but given they are x86_64 software have worked alright with Linux and there's been a OneXPlayer Linux driver for supporting sensor readings and other device-specific information from these handhelds. In a big patch series this weekend, that OneXPlayer Linux driver is catching up to its official Windows counterpart...

OneXPlayer Linux Driver Catching Up To The Windows Monitoring Driver  Phoronix

SVT-AV1 as the open-source, CPU-based AV1 encoder that was started by Intel software engineers and now led by the Alliance for Open Media is out this week with the big SVT-AV1 3.0 release. Here's some details on SVT-AV1 3.0 as well as some initial performance benchmarks for this speedy AV1 encoder, especially on modern Intel and AMD processors...

The Mesa Venus driver code for use with VirtIO-GPU for exposing accelerated Vulkan API support within virtualized environments (VMs) now is advertising Vulkan 1.4 API support...

Following Friday's release of Wine 10.2, Wine Staging 10.2 is out for testing as this more experimental/leading-edge version of Wine that is shipping with 300+ extra patches for testing...

A Beginner's Guide to Basic Ubuntu System Security  How-To Geek

5 reasons I can’t go back to Windows after trying Linux  MSN

Back in 2017 was the initial open-source DirectX Shader Compiler milestone and since then Microsoft has continued iterating on it with better Linux support, new features, and ironing out other gaps in this "DirectXShaderCompiler" project. On Friday they released the newest version of this DirectX Shader Compiler that features another newly open-sourced component...

Makulu Linux Brings an AI Toolbox to Its Desktop Distribution  The New Stack

PeaZip 10.3 Archive Manager Improves Integration with GNOME and KDE Plasma  9to5Linux

5 Mini PCs You Can Buy With Linux Preinstalled  Review Geek