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Within the mainline Linux kernel already is the SteelSeries HID driver for supporting basic battery monitoring on the Arctis 1 and Arctis 9 gaming headsets. But a new patch series posted this morning to the Linux kernel mailing list overhaul this SteelSeries HID driver support. The patches take the support to 25+ different Arctis headset models and provide more comprehensive driver support...

New Patches Bring Linux Driver Support To 25+ SteelSeries Arctis Gaming Headsets  Phoronix

Why Stop Linux Distro Hopping: Embrace Stability and Productivity  WebProNews

The This Week In Plasma series written by KDE developer Nate Graham has been a great way to keep-up with all of the interesting KDE Plasma desktop developments over the past eight years. This Week In Plasma is regularly featured on Phoronix and always provides an interesting weekend look at the very newest innovations to land in Plasma. Unfortunately, This Week In Plasma will become less frequent or even go on hiatus without new volunteer contributors...

Fish 4.3 is out today as the newest update to this user-friendly command line shell. Fish 4.0 released at the beginning of this year in porting the codebase from C++ to Rust and now before closing out 2025 they have out Fish 4.3...

10 Hyprland Dotfiles to Transform Your Linux Desktop Bautifully  It's FOSS

As part of the many different year-end benchmarks on Phoronix, over the holidays I was curious about how far the Blender 3D modeling software's performance has evolved over the past few years. So in looking at the CPU rendering performance I ran benchmarks of the major releases since Blender 3.0 through the recently released Blender 5.0...

The Simple DirectMedia Library that is widely-used by many cross-platform games and part of the Steam Runtime now has better support for handling more mouse button events under Wayland...

I stopped distro-hopping because this tool lets me run everything at once  MakeUseOf

Meta adopts a Steam Deck Linux trick to fix messy CPU scheduling  TechRadar

HarfBuzz 12.3 was just released for ending out 2025 with some nice performance improvements to this widely-used text shaping engine. HarfBuzz in turn is used by the prominent Linux desktop environments, Java, Flutter, various game engines, and apps like Chrome and Firefox for text shaping needs with OpenType fonts and more...

9 New Linux Distros That Could Grow Big in 2026  It's FOSS

I finally fixed my Xfce workflow with these simple settings and apps  How-To Geek

Linux 6.19 Kernel Fixes Scheduler Regression, Delivers Performance Gains  WebProNews

CachyOS Plans 2026 Server Edition: Optimized Arch Linux for NAS and Servers  WebProNews

Linux Proposes Runtime Standby ABI for Modern Standby-Like Power Savings  WebProNews

Ubuntu 2025: Rust Powers Security Upgrades and AI Hardware Optimization  WebProNews

GNOME developer Sophie Herold has shared some interesting end-of-year code stats for the GNOME project. The "GNOME" codebase is up to 6,692,516 lines of code at the end of 2025 with 1,611,526 lines of that being from GNOME apps. Where the data gets interesting is on the programming language breakdown in different areas...

UniFi's new travel router, Linux phones, NAS upgrades, and more: News roundup  How-To Geek

With the end of the year quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most-viewed Linux kernel news of 2025...