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I switched to Hyprland and now I get why Linux users are obsessed with it  MakeUseOf

A small but important patch that looks like it will be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is for enumerating AVX-512 BMM support for KVM virtualized guests. AVX-512 BMM is one of the exciting ISA additions with next-gen AMD Zen 6 processors...

Wine 11.6 is an exciting release to make modding Windows games on Linux simpler  GamingOnLinux

I switched from sudo to doas and now my permission rules actually make sense  MakeUseOf

4 reasons I use screen instead of tmux on Linux  How-To Geek

An Amazon/AWS engineer raised the alarms on Friday over the current Linux 7.0 development kernel leading to the throughput for the PostgreSQL database server being around half that of prior kernel versions. The culprit halving the PostgreSQL performance is known but a revert looks like it may not happen and currently suggesting that PostgreSQL may need to be adapted...

These 10 open-source apps built Linux into what it is today  How-To Geek

AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy  Phoronix

In addition to 3mdeb firmware engineers porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a Gigabyte EPYC Turin server motherboard, the staff at this firmware consulting company are also porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a modern Ryzen AM5 desktop motherboard. They continue making good strides with that quest for the first readily-available Ryzen desktop motherboard with open-source system firmware...

COSMIC desktop is incredible, but its not ready yet  How-To Geek

In the past few days was the release of FreeCAD 1.1 and SolveSpace 3.2 for open-source computer aided design (CAD) while now joining the party is Design 50 Alpha as a GNOME-aligned 2D CAD design tool...

KDE Plasma developers continue working on new features for Plasma 6.7 while continuing to land more fixes and hardening for the current Plasma 6.6 stable series...

Linux kernel 7.0 is coming mid-April—here’s everything you need to know  How-To Geek

Linux continues its upward trend: Operating system hits new high in Steam survey  igor´sLAB

Ubuntu quietly raises its minimum system requirements  OMG! Ubuntu

linux-gaming  Thurrott.com

linux-doom  Thurrott.com

linux-collections  Thurrott.com

linux-steamdeck-filters  Thurrott.com

Civilization VI Linux Testing Shows Proton's Superiority  GameGPU