When paired with the Blur My Shell extension on GNOME Shell, Tauon 8.0 looks seriously slick 😎 omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/tauon-…

#opensource #sdl3 #foss

Tauon Music Player Adds Slick Transparency Mode for Linux

A new version of Tauon music player is out, gifting fans of the powerful and unique-looking audio app a raft of new features to play with – including some Linux exclusive eye candy! Tauon 8.0 [&h...

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SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview brings the 'beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds' gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/stea…

#SteamDeck #SteamOS #HandheldGaming #Gaming #Linux #PCGaming #Steam

SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview brings the 'beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds'

Valve have released SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview, which they noted has the beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds! So we're closing in on the previously announced Beta for more handhelds. Although this release is still just for Steam Deck.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

One Line Of Code Optimizes F2FS Performance For Small Multi-Threaded Writes

An SK engineer has posted a Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) driver optimization for Linux that one line of code changed is helping with performance especially for multi-threaded workloads involving small writes to SSD storage...
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Linux 6.14-rc7 To Support A Few More Gaming Controllers

Ahead of the Linux 6.14-rc7 kernel release later today, a set of input subsystem updates were merged overnight that add in support for a few more gaming controllers...
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Vertical tabs have finally arrived in Firefox! The latest update adds that and a few other neat features, plus hardware video decoding on AMD GPUs for Linux users omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/firefo…

#firefox #linux #OpenSource

Firefox 136 Released with Vertical Tabs, New Sidebar + More

The new Mozilla Firefox 136 release delivers a number of notable new features—features Mozilla may be hoping help it re-earn some goodwill from users following last week’s privacy palaver. ...

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More Apple Silicon Updates For Linux 6.15 Help M1/M2 Plus iPad / iPod / iPhone

Already queued ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window opening later this month are DeviceTree support for Apple's T2 SoCs as well as other DeviceTree additions set to be mainlined. A third round of DeviceTree patches were sent out on Sunday morning to the Linux kernel mailing list for the upcoming v6.15 cycle...
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Linux's New Way Of Informing User-Space Over Hung GPUs May Become More Useful

Last month I wrote about new code slated to be added for Linux 6.15 that would provide a cross-driver/standardized means of reporting to user-space over hung GPUs. For the likes of the AMD and Intel graphics drivers initially, user-space will be notified via this new wedged event when a GPU is hung in case user-space wants to take additional actions to try…
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March 25 reminder - GamingOnLinux needs your support gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/marc…

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March 25 reminder - GamingOnLinux needs your support

Welcome to March 2025 readers! Here's a gentle reminder that GamingOnLinux is primarily funded by readers - that's you! And we need your support.

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SVT-AV1 3.0 Released With Faster CPU-Based AV1 Encoding

SVT-AV1 as the open-source, CPU-based AV1 encoder that was started by Intel software engineers and now led by the Alliance for Open Media is out this week with the big SVT-AV1 3.0 release. Here's some details on SVT-AV1 3.0 as well as some initial performance benchmarks for this speedy AV1 encoder, especially on modern Intel and AMD processors...
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An 'unfortunate incident' means the second point release of Ubuntu 24.04 won't arrive this week omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/ubuntu…

#ubuntu #linux

Ubuntu 24.04.2 Delayed, Won’t Be Released This Week

If you were expecting Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS to drop tomorrow, I come bearing some bad news: the release has been delayed by a week. Canonical’s Utkarsh Gupta reports that an ‘unfortunate i...

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Marvel Rivals gets a low-quality UI fix for Bazzite Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/marv…

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Marvel Rivals gets a low-quality UI fix for Bazzite Linux

Nice to see dedicated support like this from a massive game. Marvel Rivals had a small update that came with a fix for Bazzite Linux.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol finally merged gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/wayl…

#Linux #HDR #Wayland #OpenSource

Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol finally merged

After years of work across many areas, lots of discussions and more work - the Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol has been merged!

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Google Releases AOM-AV1 3.12 With More Performance Optimizations

For those preferring the AOM-AV1 open-source AV1 video encoder over SVT-AV1, Rav1e, or other AV1 encoders, Google this week unveiled AOM-AV1 3.12...
phoronix.com/news/AOM-AV1-3.12

Intel PMT Telemetry Now Available For Battlemage Graphics Cards

The Intel PMT open-source software support has now been updated for Platform Monitoring Technology Telemetry with the new Battlemage discrete graphics cards...
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Bazzite the popular SteamOS-like Linux gets expanded NVIDIA support in Beta gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/bazz…

#Bazzite #SteamOS #Linux #NVIDIA #PCGaming #LinuxGaming

Bazzite the popular SteamOS-like Linux gets NVIDIA support in Beta

If you're wanting something similar to SteamOS right now that has much wider hardware support for your gaming handhelds like the Lenovo Legion Go, ASUS ROG Ally, GPD, Ayaneo or even your laptop / desktop then Bazzite is likely one of the best choices…

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Raspberry Pi 5 gets a 16GB model now on sale gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/rasp…

#RaspberryPi5 #RaspberryPi #Linux #ARM

Raspberry Pi 5 gets a 16GB model now on sale

Raspberry Pi 5 has expanded with a new 16GB edition joining the 2GB, 4GB and 8GB models for those who need that extra bit of room. Ready for you to run more intensive applications, games and Linux distributions.

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Steam / Steam Deck Beta update brings improvements for Startup Animations, Steam Input and more gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/stea…

#Steam #PCGaming #SteamDeck #Valve

Steam / Steam Deck Beta update brings improvements for Startup Animations, Steam Input and more

Valve updated the Steam Client for Desktop and Steam Deck with a new Beta release, so here's what you need to know.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Marvell Begins Working On Linux Support For Their Next-Gen Octeon "CN20K" DPU

For Marvell's line of Octeon line of data processing units (DPUs) and baseband processors, it looks like a new DPU is on the way with the CN20K silicon seeing work on enabling Linux support...
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100+ Linux Benchmarks Of Intel Arrow Lake With New BIOS / 0x114 CPU Microcode

This past week Intel published an Intel Core Ultra 200S Series "Arrow Lake" performance status update following mixed reviews since launch around the Arrow Lake gaming performance that were inconsistent with Intel's internal findings. Among Intel's findings detailed in their report this past week were some new BIOS performance optimizations, some misconfigured per…
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