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      Steam On Linux In April Pulled Back From Its Record High Marketshare

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:16

    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 • 3 hours ago

    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 • 5 hours ago

    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 • 6 hours ago

    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 • 10 hours ago

    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 day ago

    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 • 1 day ago

    Shotcut 26.4.30 shipped today as the latest and greatest version of this open-source, cross-platform video editor...
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      Linux Mint To Begin Publishing HWE ISOs For Better Hardware Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Due to Linux Mint moving to a longer development cycle with their next release not due until December, Linux Mint developers have decided to begin regularly publishing hardware enablement "HWE" ISOs with newer Linux kernel versions to provide better support for new hardware...
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      CachyOS Linux Performance Leading Over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Fedora Workstation 44

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    It's not too entirely surprising given the aggressive stance that the CachyOS Linux distribution has taken on out-of-the-box performance, but for those curious, it continues largely leading over the newly-released Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 distributions for the leading performance on modern hardware.