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KDE Plasma 6.8 Drops Native X11 for Exclusive Wayland Shift  WebProNews

I use Rescuezilla to swap between operating systems and I love it  XDA

5 Linux desktop environments that make ditching Windows 10 easy - including my top pick  ZDNET

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Linux Performance Up ~9% One Year Later At ~85% Power Use  Phoronix

It's been just over one year now since the launch of the Core Ultra 9 285K and other Arrow Lake desktop processors. For those that may be considering an Arrow Lake CPU this holiday season for a Linux desktop or just curious how the power and performance has evolved one year later, here are some leading-edge benchmarks of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K compared to the launch-day performance last October.

KDE developers announced they are going "all-in on a Wayland future" and with the Plasma 6.8 desktop it will become Wayland-exclusive. The Plasma X11 session is going away...

Microsoft pulled the plug on Windows 10 — here’s where 780,000 users went  Windows Central

A Fedora special interest group is being proposed to help improve production stability of Fedora Linux and better handling incident management when problems do arise...

The Linux 6.18 kernel is anticipated for release this coming Sunday while this week a last-minute crisis was averted following reports of a kernel crash from recent ACPI code changes...

Urgent ACPI Revert For Linux 6.18 To Deal With Some Hardware Crashing  Phoronix

This keyboard-driven launcher for Linux replaced my taskbar entirely  XDA

Collabora Launches Desktop Office Suite for Linux  It's FOSS

Rocky Linux 10.1 Arrives with Soft Reboots, XFS Enhancements, and More  9to5Linux

LibreOffice-based Collabora Office gets a reboot on Linux, Windows, and Mac  How-To Geek

NVIDIA engineers are interested in helping Google bring Vulkan Video accelerated GPU video decoding to the Chrome/Chromium web browser...

Debian vs. Ubuntu: How to pick the right Linux for your workflow  PCWorld

Sean Christopherson of Google sent out the pull requests to the KVM tree of the various x86_64-related areas of virtualization he oversees. With these updates ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window there is a significant overhaul of Intel's Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) code to address various outstanding problems...

Linux 6.19 Overhauling The Intel TDX Locking Code For KVM  Phoronix

Following the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 earlier this month, Rocky Linux 10.1 is now available for this popular community-driven alternative to RHEL 10.1...

Open Source Never Dies: 11 of My Favorite Linux Apps That Refused to Stay Dead  It's FOSS