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More Reasons To Dump Windows For Gaming  PC Perspective

Firefox 150 Promises Support for the GTK Emoji Picker on Linux, Beta Out Now  9to5Linux

Fedora Project Leader Suggests Linux Distros Could Adopt Apple's Age Verification API  It's FOSS

Linux Ransomware Pay2Key Attacking Servers, Virtualization Platforms, and Cloud Environments  CyberSecurityNews

Wine 11 Triggers Gamer Migration To Linux  findarticles.com

Wine 11 might be the tipping point that finally pushes gamers from Windows to Linux  ZDNET

Building off the release of ROCm 7.2 from January, ROCm 7.2.1 is now available with Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS support as well as various bug fixes to this open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct GPU compute stack...

AMD ROCm 7.2.1 Released With Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Support, Bug Fixes  Phoronix

Fivetran donates SQLMesh to the Linux Foundation  Techzine Global

Firefox 149 brings a free VPN and native dialog boxes  theregister.com

Android Canary blesses the Linux Terminal with a modern UI, new features  Android Authority

In testing thus far on Ubuntu 26.04, the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop with the Wayland session is working pretty darn well and delivering a performance edge across many games/graphics workloads compared to the default GNOME 50 desktop. At least as far as AMD Radeon graphics are concerned, Plasma 6.6 is in quite impressive shape for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.

KDE Plasma 6.6 Delivers An Impressive Edge For Radeon Graphics Over GNOME 50 On Ubuntu 26.04  Phoronix

7 Linux apps I install on every new PC  How-To Geek

Fivetran donates its SQLMesh data transformation framework to the Linux Foundation  The New Stack

Kali Linux 2026.1 introduces 8 new tools  Techzine Global

Alongside announcing the new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake parts with vPro for commercial PCs and the Xeon 600 workstation processors, Intel finally announced their professional "big Battlemage" BMG-G31 graphics card with the Arc Pro B70 as well as the Arc Pro B65...

CIQ and AMD collaborate on Rocky Linux for AI, HPC  Engineering.com

Oracle Releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 Based on Linux 6.12 LTS  Linuxiac

These 5 Linux desktop environments solve problems GNOME won't  Yahoo Tech