Alienware "G-Mode" Reverted For Linux: It Actually Hurt Performance

Alienware G-Mode / Game Shift is a feature designed to "enhance gaming performance" on select Dell/Alienware laptops with the press of a key. But at least under Linux with select laptop models it can actually regress performance compared to just running the laptop in the "performance" platform profile...
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In the side-scroller automation game Sandustry every single pixel is a simulated resource gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/in-t…

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There's this whole article about KiCad being broken on Wayland... but apparently it's all just a distro packaging problem???

kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-a…

The article doesn't mention XWayland at all, but KiCad works perfectly under XWayland as far as I can tell, and that is the default on at least Fedora! wxwidgets (the toolkit KiCad uses) is still flaky under native Wayland apparently, but it is perfectly okay to keep using XWayland for now, and you should! Apps and toolkits should not switch the default backend to Wayland until all major regressions are fixed, that's kind the whole reason why XWayland exists!

Here's a thread on the story: forum.kicad.info/t/not-the-sel…

If you are on a distro that enables KiCad Wayland support by default and you experience the issues in that blog post, you don't need to (and probably should not) switch to an X11 session. Just launch KiCad as GDK_BACKEND=x11 kicad and it should run under XWayland just as well as it does under X11 sessions.

Some distros are dropping support for the legacy Xorg server and X11-native sessions, but nobody is dropping support for X11 apps and XWayland, and nobody should be concerned about running apps in X11 mode for as long as it's needed!

Edit: If you're on GNOME with fractional scaling and XWayland apps are blurry, apparently there's a secret toggle to fix that these days.

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GOG Preservation Program expands with Devil May Cry HD Collection, Devil May Cry 4 and more classics gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/gog-…

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Steam gets a new Steam Deck-like Performance Monitor now in Beta replacing the FPS counter gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/stea…

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Linux 6.16 Adds Support For Intel PMC SSRAM Telemetry For Lunar Lake + Panther Lake lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

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Linux 6.16 Adds Support For Intel PMC SSRAM Telemetry For Lunar Lake + Panther Lake

For those interested in Intel's Platform Monitoring Technology (PMT) for power and performance telemetry data among other metrics on Intel hardware, the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel has squeezed in support for existing Lunar Lake and next-gen Panther Lake SoCs into the PMC SSRAM telemetry driver...
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Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/stea…

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@cgwalters we started using bootc images for Copr builders and so far everything works great.

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Catch episode 51 of the Fedora Podcast, all about Red Hat Summit and Flock to Fedora!!

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Open 3D Engine 25.05 Brings Vulkan Improvements, Simulation Enhancements

Version 25.05 of the Open 3D Engine "O3DE" was released today for this open-source project born out of Amazon's Lumberyard engine nearly four years ago. With O3DE 25.05, this open-source game/simulation engine continues to be advanced by Amazon/AWS, Meta, Huawei, and other organizations...
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Multiple security issues in the X.Org X server and Xwayland disclosed, new versions released gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/mult…

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Ooh, it's a big one: KDE Plasma 6.4 has landed! From expanded colour management tools to enhanced panel widgets, and more! Check out the changes 👇🏻💻

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AMD & System76 Teaming Up For ROCm "Radeon Test Drive"

AMD's Advancing AI 2025 event last week was very busy with announcing the Instinct MI350X and MI355X, the ROCm 7.0 preview, and debuting the AMD Developer Cloud. In addition, they held pre-briefs around the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series and buried in as part of that was another new disclosure: Radeon Test Drive. Radeon Test Drive was brought up as something that's coming later this summe…
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Qt 6.10 Beta Released With Native PipeWire Audio Backend For Qt Multimedia

Qt 6.10 Beta 1 released today as the next stepping stone for this open-source, cross-platform toolkit. Qt 6.10 isn't bringing any new modules but is deprecating the Qt Charts and Qt Data Visualization code...
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Run a post-apocalyptic food truck in Wasteland Bites and serve weird meals to strange creatures gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/run-…

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KDE Plasma 6.4 brings improvements for accessibility, colour rendering, tablet support and more gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/kde-…

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Nautical Survival is an overlooked naval-based roguelite auto-shooter gem gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/naut…

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POLDERS is a "quintessentially Dutch" city builder inspired by Townscaper gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/pold…

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Intel's Next-Gen QAT Hardware Can Be Optimized For Just Decompression Use

Merged recently for the Linux 6.16 kernel was initial support for Intel QAT Gen6 hardware. A new qat_6xxx driver was added for supporting the next-gen QuickAssist Technology accelerator IP being found with upcoming Intel Xeon processors. Patches being prepared now for the Linux 6.17 kernel are building out a new decompression service for that next-generation hardwar…
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