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Steam On Linux Use Stayed Above 2% In June

Phoronix - Tue, 07/02/2024 - 08:28
With the start of the new month comes the Steam Survey hardware/software details for the month prior. The June 2024 results show a decline to the Steam on Linux marketshare but staying above the magic 2% threshold...

Fedora Workstation 42 Looking At Adding Opt-In User Metrics Collection

Phoronix - Tue, 07/02/2024 - 04:40
Data collection around users tends to be a very touchy subject in the Linux/open-source world even when opt-in and Fedora Workstation 42 has just seen a proposal raised to do just that. If approved the Fedora Workstation 42 release would roll-out an opt-in metrics system of anonymous user information from system settings to hardware information and desktop usage patterns...

Radeon Developer Tool Suite Migrates To Qt6

Phoronix - Tue, 07/02/2024 - 01:30
AMD's Radeon Developer Tool Suite from their GPUOpen group has now migrated to the Qt6 graphical toolkit...

Linux Mint 22 Enters Beta, Built Atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Phoronix - Tue, 07/02/2024 - 00:28
Linux Mint has kicked off the start of July by releasing the beta of Linux Mint 22 "Wilma" as the next iteration of their desktop distribution built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and with plans to support it until 2029...

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