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Medieval Steam Medieval Fest 2026

Hear ye hear ye! Steam Medieval Fest has opened court.

Interested in swords? We have you covered. Building up an empire in ye olden days? Check. Running the local tavern (pre-electricity)? All that and more here, from now til April 27.

store.steampowered.com/category/med...

21 hours ago 311 42 7 6

Playnix launch their own Steam Machine-like Linux gaming console Can't wait on the Steam Machine from Valve? Don't want to build your own? Perhaps the Playnix might be what you want then.

Playnix launch their own Steam Machine-like Linux gaming console
#Playnix #Linux #PCGaming #SteamMachine

1 day ago 61 10 6 0

LXQt 2.4 Released With More Wayland Fixes/Improvements The LXQt 2.4 desktop released today for joining the modern open-source desktop party alongside the likes of the recently debuted GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, and others...

LXQt 2.4 Released With More Wayland Fixes/Improvements - https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXQt-2.4-Released

1 day ago 6 1 0 0

GNOME Fixes Screencasting Issue With H.264 Recordings Being ~18x Larger Than VP8 A fix today for GNOME Shell's screen casting/recording service was merged after it was reported that H.264 recordings using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) are around 18x larger than they should be like when using the VP8 software fallback...

GNOME Fixes Screencasting Issue With H.264 Recordings Being ~18x Larger Than VP8 - www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Fixes-VA-API-...

1 day ago 7 1 0 0

New Lenovo Legion Go Drivers & More Sony HID Device Support In Linux 7.1 The HID subsystem updates landed this week for the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel that includes new hardware support and other changes...

New Lenovo Legion Go Drivers & More Sony HID Device Support In Linux 7.1 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-HID

1 day ago 7 1 0 0

Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team is the one that worked on improving the old AMD Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics card support by making AMDGPU driver improvements so it could become the default for these Southern Islands and Sea Islands GPUs rather than the legacy Radeon kernel driver. That meant better performance, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other benefits. More recently he finished AMDGPU improvements for Kaveri and other GCN 1.1 era APUs. Now Timur's out with some more fixes for helping select GCN 1.0 hardware...

Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux - https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Harvested-GPUs-Linux

2 days ago 9 2 0 0

Issues connecting to the platform - Incident details - Fluxer - Status Issues connecting to the platform - Incident details - Fluxer Status

fluxerstatus.com/cmo5oepyd0yt...

2 days ago 53 7 7 0

kdenlive logo with the word "news" under it, both in blue on a white bacground

State of Kdenlive - from new features to community growth, check out what happened in Kdenlive this past year and what lies ahead.

kdenlive.org/news/2026/st...

#kdenlive #kde #floss #videoediting #news

3 days ago 49 11 2 0

"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that...

Per-Screen Virtual Desktops, Settings makes it easy to choose your default calendar (and the calendar widget makes it easier to access it), and adding apps to your Favorites in the app launcher becomes a breeze... And more

blogs.kde.org/2026/04/18/t...

3 days ago 109 14 3 2

Mesa 26.1-rc1 Released For Testing With Many New Vulkan Extensions & Optimizations Eric Engestrom stepped up again to serve as Mesa release manager for this quarter's Mesa 26.1 feature release. Mesa 26.1-rc1 was just released in kicking off the weekly release candidate dance until Mesa 26.1 stable is ready for debut in May...

Mesa 26.1-rc1 Released For Testing With Many New Vulkan Extensions & Optimizations - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.1-rc1-Released

6 days ago 5 2 0 0

Fedora 44 Will Not Be Released Next Week Fedora 44 final had been aiming for an early release target of 21 April, but due to outstanding blocker bugs, it's now revised to target a release on 28 April...

Fedora 44 Will Not Be Released Next Week - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-44-Not-Next-Week

4 days ago 8 1 0 1

New Lenovo Fan Driver, More ASUS Motherboards With Sensor Monitoring For Linux 7.1 All of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel...

New Lenovo Fan Driver, More ASUS Motherboards With Sensor Monitoring For Linux 7.1 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-HWMON

4 days ago 4 1 0 0

Linux 7.1 sched_ext Brings cgroup Sub-Scheduler Groundwork, Idle SMT Sibling Improvement The extensible scheduler "sched_ext" code for allowing Linux scheduling behavior to be defined via BPF programs is seeing some useful improvements with the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel...

Linux 7.1 sched_ext Brings cgroup Sub-Scheduler Groundwork, Idle SMT Sibling Improvement - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-sched-ext

4 days ago 5 1 0 0

New NTFS File-System Driver Submitted For Linux 7.1 Making today very exciting in Linux 7.1 merge window land was a pull request being sent out for introducing the new, modern NTFS file-system driver. Linus Torvalds has yet to comment if he's going to merge the new driver but it looks like it's ready for providing a better Linux NTFS experience over the current NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed by Paragon Software a few years ago and hasn't seen too much feature progress...

New NTFS File-System Driver Submitted For Linux 7.1 - www.phoronix.com/news/New-NTFS-Driver-Sub...

4 days ago 10 1 1 2

Proton 11.0 is now available in Beta!

4 days ago 140 24 4 1

Proton 11.0 Beta Released With More Games Playable On Steam Play Valve and CodeWeavers have just released Proton 11.0 Beta as their first beta milestone for this software that powers Steam Play now rebased against upstream Wine 11.0...

Proton 11.0 Beta Released With More Games Playable On Steam Play - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-11.0-Beta

4 days ago 8 1 0 0

AMD Linux Graphics Driver Introducing "Power Module" To Better Match Windows Behavior With the set of today's AMDGPU kernel graphics driver Display Core (DC) patches is a rather curious addition with wiring up the Linux code to a "power module" that looks like it will better match Microsoft Windows behavior with the AMD Radeon driver around display-related power savings features...

AMD Linux Graphics Driver Introducing "Power Module" To Better Match Windows Behavior - https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-DC-Power-Module

5 days ago 11 1 0 0

Today I learned the #ChaoticAUR does geo mirror lists and now I need to support them in shelly because I didnt design it with those in mind. Neat tech wasnt aware it existed. #Shelly #Arch #Linux
Shelly will support geo mirrors in 2.1.0's release this weekend.

6 days ago 3 1 0 0

Luanti (formerly Minetest) v5.15.2 brings critical security updates Luanti (formerly Minetest) is the popular free and open source voxel game engine powering some really fun experiences and a critical update is out now.

Luanti (formerly Minetest) v5.15.2 brings critical security updates
#VoxeLibre #Luanti #Minetest #OpenSource #Linux #Gaming #FreeGame

6 days ago 40 9 0 0

GNOME Mutter 50.1 Fixes Performance Regression For Some NVIDIA Driver Versions GNOME Shell 50.1 and Mutter 50.1 were released today as the first point releases in the GNOME 50 series...

GNOME Mutter 50.1 Fixes Performance Regression For Some NVIDIA Driver Versions - https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-50.1

1 week ago 6 1 0 0

SteamOS 3.8.2 Beta brings fixes for security issues, trackpad on Legion Go and Borderlands 2 We're hopefully closing in on the next big stable update for SteamOS, with Valve releasing SteamOS 3.8.2 Beta.

SteamOS 3.8.2 Beta brings fixes for security issues, trackpad on Legion Go and Borderlands 2
#SteamOS #Linux #SteamDeck #Steam #Valve

1 week ago 48 7 0 0

SteamVR Beta 2.16.3 brings Linux fixes for VRLink Seems SteamVR for Linux really is getting some more attention recently, after a number of fixes in the previous Beta we have a few more here.

SteamVR Beta 2.16.3 brings Linux fixes for VRLink
#SteamVR #VR #Valve #Steam #Linux #Gaming

1 week ago 41 7 0 0

AMD Ready With CPPC Performance Priority & Dynamic/Raw EPP In Linux 7.1 All of the power management subsystem feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel...

AMD Ready With CPPC Performance Priority & Dynamic/Raw EPP In Linux 7.1 - www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Power-Man...

1 week ago 4 1 0 0

Konqi, the KDE dragon, says hello from inside a gear.

This October... KDE is turning 30!

Celebrate with us: send us historic photos for our gallery, tell us a KDE story, or share a little-known KDE fact.

Become a supporting member and guarantee 30 more years of FLOSS. Organize a KDE event and we'll include it on our map!

kde.org/anniversarie...

1 week ago 190 49 4 3

KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years A request made a KDE user all the way back in June 2005 on KDE 3.3.2 is finally resolved. After being sought after for 21 years, the latest KWin code now has support for per-screen virtual desktops...

KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years - www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Per-Screen-Virt...

1 week ago 14 2 0 0

Mesa 26.1 RADV Driver Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap As Big Improvement For Steam Play As a big helper for Valve's Steam Play with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton, the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged its initial support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap Vulkan extension...

Mesa 26.1 RADV Driver Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap As Big Improvement For Steam Play - www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Merges-Descrip...

1 week ago 4 1 0 0

Sunshine Game Streaming Introduces Vulkan Video Encode Support Sunshine v2026.413.143228 released this week as a new feature release for this self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight, an open-source game streaming client that is an implementation of the NVIDIA GameStream protocol. Notable with this Sunshine release is Vulkan Video encode support as an alternative to using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) for game streaming...

Sunshine Game Streaming Introduces Vulkan Video Encode Support - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sunshine-v2026.413.143228

1 week ago 9 2 0 0

Good News! France Starts Plan to Replace Windows With Linux on Government Desktops DINUM is ditching Windows for Linux as France pushes every ministry to draft a migration plan away from non-European software.

France did something to shake off its Big Tech addiction.

itsfoss.com/news/france-...

1 week ago 58 8 1 2

Many Wonderful Improvements Expected For Linux 7.1, Especially For AMD & Intel With Linux 7.0 expected for release later today, in turn the Linux 7.1 merge window will kick off for the two week period of landing all sorts of exciting new features, changes, and removal of old features from the kernel. Here is a look at some of what is on the table for the Linux 7.1 merge window...

Many Wonderful Improvements Expected For Linux 7.1, Especially For AMD & Intel - www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Features-...

1 week ago 8 2 0 0

A Beta Steam Client update has just been released to address the launch failure for certain titles such as Balatro and Mewgenics, introduced with yesterday's Beta client.

1 week ago 37 2 0 0

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