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6 things I wish I knew before installing SteamOS on my Asus ROG Ally X  XDA

I regret switching to Linux, even though I wanted to love it  XDA

Forget WinRAR: These Are the Best Native Archive Managers for Linux  How-To Geek

Ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window opening up in just one month, the new Zblock allocator was queued up into Andrew Morton's "MM" tree of memory management material likely destined for the next kernel merge window. Zblock is showing much potential as a compressed slab memory allocator...

Zblock Compressed Slab Memory Allocator Looks Like It Could Be Coming In Linux 6.16  Phoronix

Tests indicate Intel's '200S Boost' feature provides no real gain for Arrow Lake CPUs on Linux  Tom's Hardware

'Fall Guys' on Linux Was Broken Until I Did This  How-To Geek

A worrying stealthy Linux security bug could put your systems at risk - here's what we know  MSN

The Death of Windows 10 Could Net You a Bunch of Free Linux PCs  How-To Geek

The Death of Windows 10 Could Net You a Bunch of Free Linux PCs  How-To Geek

The Best Office Suites for Linux  The New Stack

Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia has been pursuing the Fair DRM Scheduler as a "fair" scheduling policy to help with multiple applications/processes aiming to make use of the GPU concurrently. With this week's v4 patch-set to the DRM Fair Scheduler there are some big code changes but overall looking well as a nice scheduling policy for multiple apps/games/processes wanting equal access to GPU resources...

Fair DRM Scheduler v4 Running Well On Steam Deck, "Looks Solid"  Phoronix

Linux 6.15-rc4 To Fix The Kernel Crashing For 32-bit Systems With Too Much RAM  Phoronix

With the Linux kernel now limiting 32-bit systems to 4GB of memory even with the "HIGHMEM" Kconfig option, an issue was uncovered where if the system was still populated with more memory than addressable by 32-bit systems, the kernel would crash. With the Linux 6.15-rc4 kernel due out on Sunday, this issue will be addressed...

A new Wayland-only feature merged for GNOME 49's Mutter is support for tablet pad relative dials. These dials found on some drawing tablets now allow for relative moment under the GNOME Wayland session when paired with recent libinput and libwacom releases...

As we near the end of April, KDE developers remain quite busy working on more enhancements for the Plasma 6.4 desktop while many of them were also meeting this week in Graz, Austria for further development and planning...

Never mind Windows 11, Commodore OS Vision 3.0 is the retro-inspired OS you didn't know you needed -- download it now!  BetaNews

Following recent Vulkan 1.1 support within Mesa for the PanVK driver for open-source Arm Mali Vulkan driver support, Vulkan 1.2 is now being advertised...

I installed Linux on my Nintendo Switch, because why wouldn't I?  XDA