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A developer from Valve working on the RADV Vulkan driver was once again the most prolific contributor to Mesa in 2025 followed by AMD's Marek Olšák with continued improvements around RadeonSI and Gallium3D...

I spent a week with NixOS and it completely changed how I think about Linux  MakeUseOf

Konstantin Seurer as one of the open-source developers working on the RADV driver for Valve has landed another ray-tracing performance optimization for the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release...

5 Linux Resolutions to Level Up Your Skills in 2026  It's FOSS

Manjaro 26 makes a strong case for leaving Windows 11 behind  BetaNews

You may not want to switch to Linux for these reasons  Yahoo! Tech

You may not want to switch to Linux for these reasons  How-To Geek

The best Linux distributions for gaming in 2026  GamingOnLinux

Nvidia GeForce Now expected to gain official Linux support as early as this week  TechSpot

Linux Kernel 6.19-rc4 Released: Driver Boosts, GPU Enhancements, and Fixes  WebProNews

I turned my TV into a Linux PC for $100, and I won't go back  How-To Geek

The newest open-source Apple Silicon driver being submitted for review in working toward its inclusion in the mainline Linux kernel is the Apple Silicon SMC power driver for being able to expose MacBook battery power metrics as well as AC power adapter status reporting under Linux...

Apple SMC Power Driver Posted For Linux Kernel To Finally Expose Battery Stats  Phoronix

System76’s Cosmic Desktop: Rust Revolutionizes Linux UI Performance  WebProNews

Patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are hoping to provide mainline support for the Acer Swift SFA14-11 laptop powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite X1E78100 SoC...

Patches Posted Seeking To Mainline Support For The Acer Swift SFA14-11 Snapdragon Laptop  Phoronix

Valve’s brilliant Steam Deck now accounts for over 21% of all Linux gamers  FRVR

I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too  Notebookcheck

Intel engineer Francois Dugast today sent out the new patch series for enabling Transparent Hugepages (THP) support within the drm_pagemap code with a focus on the Intel Xe kernel driver usage. This enabling of THP support and in turn 2MB pages by the Xe driver is yielding "significant" performance improvements when using Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) such as for GPU compute workloads...

Intel Xe Driver Preps THP Support For "Significant" SVM Performance Gains  Phoronix