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Shotcut Video Editor Now Using Hardware Decoding By Default Except For NVIDIA On Linux

Phoronix - Sun, 02/01/2026 - 05:11
Shotcut 26.1 is now available as the latest feature update to this open-source and cross-platform video editing solution. Shotcut 26.1 is finally defaulting to GPU hardware accelerated video decoding by default for all platforms sans NVIDIA GPUs on Linux...

Phosh Mobile Phone UI Making Progress On GTK4 Port

Phoronix - Sun, 02/01/2026 - 03:52
Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras presented today at FOSDEM on the latest work around Phosh, the mobile phone user interface / Wayland shell project for mobile Linux environments. Phosh has been making steady progress and has more features out on the horizon...

Budgie 10.10.1 Released With Better Stability & Improved Labwc Integration

Phoronix - Sun, 02/01/2026 - 02:56
Following the Budgie 10.10 release from earlier this month, Budgie 10.10.1 is now here for closing out January...

Linuxulator-Steam-Utils To Enjoy Steam Play Gaming On FreeBSD & Other Options

Phoronix - Sun, 02/01/2026 - 01:36
Presented today at FOSDEM in Brussels was the state of gaming on FreeBSD by Thibault Payet. Besides various open-source games able to be compiled natively for FreeBSD, this BSD can get in on the Steam Play gaming scene thanks to the "linuxulator-steam-utils" project as a set of workarounds for the Steam Linux client on FreeBSD 14 and newer. Linuxulator-steam-utils builds off FreeBSD's Linuxulator support for running Linux binaries to enjoy the likes of Steam and even Steam Play (Proton) Windows games running on this translation layer for Linux and in turn running on FreeBSD...

GNOME 50 Is No Longer Treating Variable Rate Refresh "VRR" As Experimental

Phoronix - Sat, 01/31/2026 - 19:37
Another great albeit overdue improvement for GNOME 50 has landed: Variable Rate Refresh "VRR" functionality for modern displays is now promoted and no longer treated as an experimental feature...

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