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I've tried dozens of Linux desktops, and COSMIC feels like the future  How-To Geek

Windows Storage Spaces isn't the only way to combine drives — Linux has a surprisingly simple alternative  MakeUseOf

The performance of the Nouveau kernel driver with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver continues to improve each feature release in its quest toward better competing with NVIDIA's official Linux graphics driver with its proprietary Vulkan driver...

NVK Vulkan Performance Improving With Mesa 26.2 Against NVIDIA Proprietary Driver  Phoronix

Vocalinux Is an Open-Source Voice Dictation App Built for Linux  Linuxiac

Linux finally does HDR gaming right — here's the exact setup  MakeUseOf

D7VK 2.0 released with more performance fixes for retro Direct3D games on Linux  GamingOnLinux

DXVK 3.0.2 brings bug fixes for Dying Light: The Beast, Halo and more on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

I tried every major file manager on Linux and only this one felt right  How-To Geek

This week's batch of AMDGPU Display Core "DC" updates arrived heavy with 70 new patches for improving that open-source display support for Radeon graphics on the Linux desktop...

AMD Linux Graphics Driver Preps Fix For Apple Studio Display  Phoronix

GNOME OS Safe Mode Improving The System Reliability  Phoronix

At GNOME's annual GUADEC conference happening this week in Spain, an update was shared on the current state of GNOME OS...

Nate Graham and John Veness are out with the latest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting developments taking place in the KDE Plasma desktop space...

Following the release of AMD's ZenDNN 6.0 earlier this month, there is a new feature release of the oneDNN neural network library that used to be developed by Intel as part of oneAPI and is now under the UXL Foundation umbrella. Even so, oneDNN feature releases continue to be heavy on new Intel optimizations and future hardware support...

In addition to Friday night's release of DXVK 3.0.2, debuting separately a short time later was D7VK 2.0 as the latest major feature release for this implementation of Direct3D 7 and earlier built off the Vulkan API...

D7VK 2.0 Released With Some Nice Performance Improvements: Up To 2x Or More  Phoronix

This Linux Trick Makes Network Packets Disappear (eBPF XDP)  YouTube

After nine years, Linux gamers can finally join Minecraft Bedrock servers without the headaches  XDA

In addition to the initial build of Holo Core as AArch64 Arch Linux for the Steam Frame, another software milestone today in Valve's Linux gaming space is the release of DXVK 3.0.2 for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 APIs implemented over the Vulkan API for running Windows games...