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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Delivers Best Performance On Linux Over Windows 11 - Even With Gaming

Phoronix - Fri, 05/16/2025 - 18:40
Now having shown the very strong AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux performance for this "Strix Halo" SoC with Radeon 8060S iGPU for its integrated graphics, you may be wondering on the same hardware how this compares to Microsoft Windows 11. Today's article is looking at the Microsoft Windows 11 Pro performance as shipped by HP on their ZBook Ultra 14 G1a laptop compared to Ubuntu 25.04 with a clean install.

Asahi Linux Highlights Recent Upstream Efforts In Linux 6.15, Other Ongoing Efforts

Phoronix - Fri, 05/16/2025 - 17:00
With the Linux 6.15 kernel soon to debut as stable, the Asahi Linux project issued a new blog post outlining some of the new code they managed to get upstream for this next mainline kernel version as well as some of their other efforts for enabling Linux on modern Apple Silicon hardware...

Ubuntu 25.10 Planning For Good NVIDIA On Wayland Experience, VRR & RISC-V Desktop

Phoronix - Fri, 05/16/2025 - 14:00
A public Ubuntu 25.10 desktop road-map was published today to outline some of the plans that Canonical engineers are beginning to work on ahead of the next Ubuntu Linux release in October...

AMD Is Hiring Again To Help Enhance Ryzen On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 05/16/2025 - 13:00
AMD is once again hiring more Linux engineer(s) to work on their Ryzen client efforts under Linux with next-gen hardware enablement, enhancing features/support for existing Ryzen systems, and related efforts...

Lenovo Thinkbook 16 X1 Plus Laptop Sees Linux Patches But Not Yet Ready For Daily Use

Phoronix - Fri, 05/16/2025 - 12:00
Device Tree patches have been posted for enabling Linux support on the Lenovo Thinkbook 16 G7 QOY powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Plus SoC...

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