KDE Plasma 6.5 Finally Adds Automatic Day/Night Theme Switching KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly report on the interesting Plasma desktop changes for the week. This week a long-sought feature for the Plasma desktop was finally merged...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Finally Adds Automatic Day/Night Theme Switching - Phoronix

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly report on the interesting Plasma desktop changes for the week

Steam Survey For July Shows Linux Use Approaching 3% Back in February Steam on Linux was at a 1.45% marketshare, then was corrected to 2.33% for Linux gaming in March, 2.27% for April, a nice jump to 2.69% for Linux gaming in May, and June came in at 2.57% for the Linux gaming population as a percent of Steam users. The July numbers were published this evening and show a new recent high for Linux gamers...

Steam Survey For July Shows Linux Use Approaching 3% - Phoronix

Back in February Steam on Linux was at a 1.45% marketshare, then was corrected to 2.33% for Linux gaming in March, 2.27% for April, a nice jump to ...

Wayback 0.2 Brings More Enhancements For This X11 Compatibility Layer In time for some weekend testing, Wayback 0.2 is now available for this X11 compatibility layer leveraging Wayland components. Wayback 0.2 remains at an alpha quality state but more functionality is now wired up...

Wayback 0.2 Brings More Enhancements For This X11 Compatibility Layer - Phoronix

In time for some weekend testing, Wayback 0.2 is now available for this X11 compatibility layer leveraging Wayland components

Vulkan 1.4.324 Adds Experimental AMD Extension To Help With Ray-Tracing Vulkan 1.4.324 is out today as the first Vulkan API specification update in two weeks with a variety of clarifications/corrections plus a new extension from AMD...

Vulkan 1.4.324 Adds Experimental AMD Extension To Help With Ray-Tracing - Phoronix

Vulkan 1.4.324 is out today as the first Vulkan API specification update in two weeks with a variety of clarifications/corrections plus a new exten...

EXT4 Shows Wild Gains With Better Block Allocation Scalability In Linux 6.17 The EXT4 file-system enhancements for Linux 6.17 were merged on Thursday and bring better scalability to the block allocation code as well as fixing the file-system's large folios support. The scalability work can show some wild gains in select areas...

EXT4 Shows Wild Gains With Better Block Allocation Scalability In Linux 6.17 - Phoronix

The EXT4 file-system enhancements for Linux 6.17 were merged on Thursday and bring better scalability to the block allocation code as well as fixin...

Intel XeSS 2.1 Released With Frame Generation For Non-Intel GPUs But Still A Binary Mess This evening Intel released XeSS 2.1 as the newest version of their Xe Super Sampling library with upscaling, frame generation, and low latency optimizations for gamers. Notable with XeSS 2.1 is that it introduces XeSS Frame Generation with Xe Low Latency support now for non-Intel GPUs...

Intel XeSS 2.1 Released With Frame Generation For Non-Intel GPUs But Still A Binary Mess - Phoronix

This evening Intel released XeSS 2.1 as the newest version of their Xe Super Sampling library with upscaling, frame generation, and low latency opt...

Steam Beta Brings Fix For UI Scaling On XWayland Valve is ending out the month of July with a new Steam beta release that has a few Linux-specific fixes...

Steam Beta Brings Fix For UI Scaling On XWayland - Phoronix

Valve is ending out the month of July with a new Steam beta release that has a few Linux-specific fixes.

libinput 1.29 Released With High Resolution Scroll Wheel Improvement Libinput 1.29 was just released as the newest version of this open-source input handling library used on the modern Linux desktop both under X.Org and Wayland environments...

libinput 1.29 Released With High Resolution Scroll Wheel Improvement - Phoronix

Libinput 1.29 was just released as the newest version of this open-source input handling library used on the modern Linux desktop both under X.Org ...

Mesa 25.2-rc3 Released With RADV Vulkan Video Fixes, NVK Conformance Update The third weekly release candidate of Mesa 25.2 is now available for testing ahead of its planned stable release in August...

Mesa 25.2-rc3 Released With RADV Vulkan Video Fixes, NVK Conformance Update - Phoronix

The third weekly release candidate of Mesa 25.2 is now available for testing ahead of its planned stable release in August.

Arch Linux Installer Adds Bluetooth Support & U2F Authentication Archinstall 3.0.9 released today as the newest iteration of this text-based Arch Linux operating system installer...

Arch Linux Installer Adds Bluetooth Support & U2F Authentication - Phoronix

Archinstall 3.0.9 released today as the newest iteration of this text-based Arch Linux operating system installer.