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Sorry, Linux Fans: This OS Is Actually the Better Windows Replacement  MakeUseOf

Want an Affordable Linux Desktop PC? Just Buy a Steam Deck  Yahoo! Tech

A patch series posted overnight that is part of a larger planned rework for the kernel to introduce a "Swap Table" is poised to bring significant real-world performance gains to the Linux kernel...

Gnoppix Makes Using AI on Linux a Snap, With One Caveat  The New Stack

For those that happen to have an HP Victus 16-r1000 gaming laptop or considering one with the 14th Gen Intel Core CPUs and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 graphics, the Linux support is now slightly better off thanks to the HP-WMI driver adding fan and thermal profile support for the Victus 16-r1000 series...

Linux 6.17 Adds Fan & Thermal Profile Support For HP Victus 16-r1000 Gaming Laptops  Phoronix

Google is preparing a field trial with the Chrome web browser of accelerated video decoding under Wayland/Linux as a step toward rolling it out by default for a better video playback experience on the Linux desktop with Wayland-based environments...

Google Prepares Chrome Field Trial For Accelerated Video Decode On Wayland  Phoronix

Why Anti-Cheat Software Hinders Linux Gaming Compatibility  WebProNews

Nearly a decade after the Tegra X2 SoC shipped in the likes of the Jetson TX2, the Pascal-based GP10B GPU has received a patch for allowing GPU re-clocking within the open-source Nouveau driver...

Nouveau Driver Receives Patch For GPU Reclocking With The Pascal GP10B  Phoronix

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his customary weekend blog post to summarize all the interesting Plasma desktop developments for the week. Most exciting in recent days is Plasma 6.5 receiving an initial system setup wizard...

Arch Linux Under Sustained DDoS Attack Since August 2025  WebProNews

Glycin 2.0 Beta 3 was released this week for the GNOME project providing a Rust-based library for decoding, editing, and creating images and associated metadata. Glycin is in turn used by a growing number of GNOME components for imaging needs...

Linux Kernel May Soon Support USB 3.x on Apple M1 and M2 MacBooks and Desktops  TechPowerUp

Linux Kernel May Soon Support USB 3.x on Apple M1 and M2 MacBooks and Desktops  TechPowerUp

Linux Kernel May Soon Support USB3 on Apple M1 and M2 MacBooks and Desktops  TechPowerUp

The first release candidate of OpenZFS 2.4 is now available for testing of this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

Arch Linux remains under attack as DDoS enters week 2 - here's a workaround  ZDNET

APT36 hackers abuse Linux .desktop files to install malware in new attacks  BleepingComputer