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KDE developers continue to be very busy this summer landing more features for the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop...

DLSS Updater 4.3.0 for Linux has "grown into a full Proton Upscalers panel"  GamingOnLinux

Valve fix up Marvel Rivals on SteamOS / Linux with Proton Hotfix  GamingOnLinux

A change upstreamed to Mesa by an Arm engineer now enables the Panfrost Gallium3D driver for Arm Mali graphics to work with the Rusticl driver by default...

System76 developers have for the past number of weeks been working on developing a "frosted glass" appearance for the COSMIC desktop environment featured on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution. For Pop!_OS users this frosted glass feature is now available and will become more widespread for other Linux distributions once the next COSMIC release is formally tagged...

Wine 11.13 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software enabling support for running Windows games and applications on Linux...

Pop!_OS Rolls Out Its "Frosted Glass" Desktop Style For COSMIC  Phoronix

I moved my PC to an immutable distro, and the thing I was most afraid of turned out to be the best part  XDA

OpenMandriva Linux project reportedly targeted in attempted sabotage after contributor dispute  SC Media

Red Hat will support your RHEL forever now - for a price  ZDNET

Fields of Mistria Migrates to New Engine and Adds Support for Linux and SteamOS  GameGrin

YAPS2 is a PS2 Emulator with a Focus On Linux  Retro Handhelds

KDE Frameworks 6.28 Released with Support for New KRunner Conversion Units  9to5Linux

With KDE Plasma 6.7 now having seen a few point releases to further polish this last version with X11 support ahead of Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-only, here are some NVIDIA Linux gaming benchmarks between the X11 and Wayland sessions on Plasma 6.7.2 using the popular Arch Linux based CachyOS.

KDE Plasma 6.7 X11 vs. Wayland Session Gaming Performance For NVIDIA On CachyOS  Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6.7 X11 vs. Wayland Session Gaming Performance For NVIDIA On CachyOS  Phoronix

Proton VPN brings official one-click installs to the Linux Snap Store — but some features are still missing  TechRadar

Linux Foundation to launch new AI initiative for open source digital health transformation  Healthcare IT News

Hannah Montana Linux updated after 18 years  Boing Boing

Wdid  Hackaday