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Ryzen 9 9950X runs 16% faster on an Intel-optimized Linux distro  Tom's Hardware

Windows update breaks Linux dual boot - but there is a fix for some users  ZDNet

Following all of the Snapdragon X1 upstream enablement work over the past number of months by Qualcomm and then DeviceTree additions emerging for enabling the likes of the ASUS Vivobook S 15, Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x, Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6, and Microsoft Surface 7, the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge is the newest Snapdragon X1 Elite laptop seeing Linux DT support...

Linux Support Emerging For The Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge X1 Elite Laptop  Phoronix

Microsoft breaks some Linux dual-boots in a recent Windows update  GamingOnLinux

Dual Booting Windows and Linux No Longer Available After Microsoft’s Security Update—Why?  Tech Times

Microsoft breaks dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs with security update sent to wrong systems  Windows Central

Indian State Continues Its Successful Journey With Linux at Schools  It's FOSS News

Zed, the code/text editor being developed by former Atom editor developers, has continued to gain interest among developers since going open-source, being written in the Rust programming language, and native Linux builds taking shape. The latest feature work on Zed is beginning to integrate AI-powered functionality by leveraging Anthropic's Claude LLM...

SVT-AV1 2.2 is now available for this leading open-source AV1 video encoder. With this new version comes yet more performance optimizations...

Released last month was the VirtualBox 7.1 Beta 1 virtualization software release from Oracle. This new version is bringing a modernized GUI, Wayland clipboard sharing, and other improvements. Released yesterday was the second beta of this big VirtualBox update...

Microsoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs  The Verge

The best SSH clients for Linux (and why you need them)  ZDNet

Windows patch prevents Linux from booting on dual-boot systems  Techzine Europe

The post LUKS: Linux Hard Disk Data Encryption with NTFS Support in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

LUKS acronym stands for Linux Unified Key Setup which is a wide method of disk encryption used by Linux Kernel and

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Artix Linux 20240819 drops LXQt and LXDE from the community editions  Notebookcheck.net

Why I made the Permanent Switch to Linux from Windows in 2024 — A Power User Perspective  Medium

'Something has gone seriously wrong': Microsoft's update breaks Linux systems  NewsBytes

The post How to Allow Awk to Use Shell Variables – Part 11 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

When we write shell scripts, we normally include other smaller programs or commands such as Awk operations in our scripts.

The post How to Allow Awk to Use Shell Variables – Part 11 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

NixOS is an amazing distro that every Linux enthusiast needs to try out  XDA Developers