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      NVIDIA Ships Fixes For Descriptor Heaps, More Vulkan Performance Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 May 2026

    NVIDIA on Friday released the 595.44.06 beta driver build as their newest Vulkan developer beta for Linux. This was joined by the NVIDIA 595.46 Windows Vulkan beta and there are performance improvements in tow and more work on their descriptor heaps support...
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      KDE Plasma 6.6.5 Fixes Some NVIDIA Performance Issues, More Features Land For Plasma 6.7

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 May 2026

    We are now just one month out from the planned release of Plasma 6.7 in mid-June. Feature activity continues to be brisk for Plasma 6.7 while KDE developers also continue landing more fixes for the current Plasma 6.6 series...
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      Steam On Linux In April Pulled Back From Its Record High Marketshare

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 May 2026

    Steam on Linux use in March had skyrocketed to 5.33%, a 3.1% boost month-over-month and easily the highest level we've seen Steam on Linux at since its inception more than a decade ago. This record growth came amid the ongoing success of the Steam Deck handheld and Steam Play (Proton) for enabling more Windows games to run well on Linux. The April numbers are in and the Linux gaming marketshare pulled back somewhat but still remaining healthy...
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      Wine 11.8 Improves VBScript Compatibility, Finally Fixes Microsoft Golf 1999

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 May 2026

    Wine 11.8 delivers the latest and greatest support for running Windows applications and games under Linux and other platforms. This newest bi-weekly development release brings several more enhancements in working toward Wine 12.0 stable due out in early 2027...
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      EndeavourOS "Trtion" To Ship New Desktop/WM Options, Titan Neo Brings Various Updates

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 May 2026

    In addition to today's monthly ISO refresh of Arch Linux that is now pulling in the Linux 7.0 kernel and other updates, the downstream EndeavourOS also happens to be out with a new ISO release for starting the month of May...
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      Vulkan 1.4.350 Released With Three New Extensions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 May 2026

    Vulkan 1.4.350 released earlier today as the newest routine spec update. Beyond the usual minor fixes/clarifications, Vulkan 1.4.350 tacks on three more extensions...
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      AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL Patches For Their AMDGPU Linux Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 May 2026

    It's not complete HDMI 2.1 support but to much surprise hitting the mailing list today were official patches from AMD for implementing HDMI Fixed Rate Link "FRL" support for their kernel graphics driver. HDMI FRL as part of HDMI 2.1+ allows for higher bandwidth to support higher refresh rates and resolutions...
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      Linux 7.2 To Set Default DRM Scheduler Priority To "Fair", New AIE4 Hardware In AMDXDNA

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 May 2026

    Even while the Linux 7.1 merge window was still ongoing this month, the initial "drm-misc-next" pull request to DRM-Next was sent out for beginning to queue new feature material toward the Linux 7.2 kernel coming this summer...
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      Shotcut 26.4 Released With Timeline Improvements, Vulkan Accelerated Speech-To-Text

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 April 2026

    Shotcut 26.4.30 shipped today as the latest and greatest version of this open-source, cross-platform video editor...