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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:35 Sponsor: TuxCare 01:49 Linux Kernel 03:08 Generic Stable kernel 04:54 LTS Kernel 06:03 Libre Kernel 07:05 Hardened Kernel 08:09 Real Time / Low latency 09:48 Android kernel 11:05 Zen, Liquorix and Xanmod 13:00 TKG kernel 13:47 What should you use? 15:15 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 16:26 Support the channel

The "official" Linux kernel, straight from Linus Torvalds and all the kernel developers, you generally see a new version every 2 to 2 and a half months.

All stable versions of the Linux kernel are numbered in the usual scheme, so major number DOT minor number, but they also have really strange codenames. Some distros tend to modify these kernels with additional patches, or features that haven't been added yet, which is why you can see some kernel versions with a "-ubuntu" at the end for example.

Certain kernel versions are also marked as LTS, meaning Long Term support. These are versions that will be supported for much longer, up to 6 years. The Linux kernel project recently reduced that support window to 2 years.

Since both the stable and LTS kernels ship with some non free firmware, there's the Kernel Libre project, which removes all of that, to only ship software and code that is completely free, as in freedom..

Next, we have the hardened kernel. It's not an "official" project per se, it's a kernel version that certain distros ship in their repos, like Arch Linux for example. It's the stable kernel, with an additional patch set applied to it to make it more resilient security-wise.

Next, we have the realtime kernel. The goal is to reduce the latency between a task being assigned to the CPU, and its execution, and it's mainly meant for industrial applications, or for audio production. This, in turn, makes it less efficient for multi tasking, and it requires a lot more manual config to be efficient, and applications need to be specifically tailored to take advantage of this lower latency.

The low latency kernel variants do the same thing, but at a lesser degree: it still lets you pre-empt CPU threads like the real time kernel, but it isn't as regular as the realtime kernel.

The Android kernel is focused on supporting a specific category of devices, meaning that it has optimizations for these exact things.

The Zen kernel applies a few fixes and improvements meant to have the best performance and experience for linux desktop users. It's also packaged as the Liquorix kernel for Ubuntu or Debian, and other distros, although Liquorix isn't exactly like the Zen kernel.

Another version is the XanMod kernel, with sort of the same optimization as the Zen kernel, and a few more on top of that, with the same goal: improving the performance of Linux systems.

Finally, we have the TKG kernels, and I'm saying kernels, because TKG isn't a specific Linux kernel you can download and use, it's more like a build system that lets you choose a few specific patches and compile your own kernel with that.

Just for fun, I decided to try and imagine what a Linux distro would look like if it got hit by the enshittification stick that seems to affect every digital product of service these days.

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:36 Sponsor: Squarespace 01:36 Desktop Improvements 04:59 Nautilus changes 06:47 New Settings 08:51 Apps changes 11:12 Parting Thoughts 13:33 Sponsor: Tuxedo 14:54 Support the channel

The main thing you'll enjoy here is some redesigned notifications. These will now show a header, to let you know which app spawned that notification, and they'll include a little symbolic icon as well. On top of that, notifications that are pretty long, or have action buttons can also be expanded, or collapsed.

Experimental support for variable refresh rate is here, it's turned off by default, and you'll have to use dconf to turn it on. Once you do that, you'll get a switch for that feature in the Display settings, provided your display supports it, with a "preferred refresh rate" list.

(gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['variable-refresh-rate']")

Another change is in how fonts are rendered using fractional scaling: they're now less blurry, and will look more consistent.

Other, smaller changes include the ability to press control + super and a number to launch the associated app from your dock. You also get remote login using RDP.

The file manager, Nautilus, got way better in this release. First, you can now click the path bar to edit the location manually, instead of having to press control + L to do so.

Next is search: it now performs much faster than it used to, and the search button now does a global search directly. When transferring files, the progress bar has been moved to the bottom of the sidebar. Changing a folder icon is now much easier as well, you can just open its properties, and you have a little edit icon.

In the settings, there's a new "system" page. The mouse and touchpad settings now let you configure how you trigger the right click. You can also turn off the touchpad when typing, or disable that setting if you don't like it.

The GNOME Online accounts also received some love, notably for its backend: it now uses the default browser for authentication into accounts. You can also add a WebDAV account to get access to contacts, calendars and files, and you can add a Microsoft Personal Account as well.

GNOME Software, the app store, now shows the Verified badges on Flathub applications that have them. GNOME Calendar gained performance improvements, which it sort of needed, and it now displays the current month a lot more visibly in the month view, so you always know where you are.

The image viewer, Loupe, now has a keyboard shortcut to permanently delete an image, it's shift + delete.

Epiphany, the web browser, now automatically retrieves app names and icons from websites using their progressive web apps manifests if they have one, so everything will already be nice and tidy when you create a web app from the browser. It also fixes some issues with how it syncs with your Firefox account, and it gained support for smart card authentication as well, meaning you can authenticate using USB devices while using Epiphany.

GNOME Maps moved their controls to the bottom of the application, and gained improvements to the vector map layer, although this one is still experimental. It also improved how favourite places work, with a default empty state explaining what favourites are.

Finally, GNOME Music has been ported to use the latest libadwaita widgets, and it removed support for Last.FM scrobbling, and the song list view. it also gained a preferences dialogue, which doesn't contain much, but still lets you set the repeat mode, enable replayGain, or inhibit suspend when playing music.

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General Linux knowledge: Arch Wiki: https://archlinux.org/ Linux Journey: https://linuxjourney.com/ Linux From Scratch: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ Linux Foundation Courses: https://training.linuxfoundation.org/resources/?_sft_content_type=free-course

Learning the command line: Linux Survival: https://linuxsurvival.com/ Linux Command: https://linuxcommand.org LearnLinuxTV: https://www.youtube.com/@LearnLinuxTV Veronica Explains: https://www.youtube.com/@VeronicaExplains Terminus: https://web.mit.edu/mprat/Public/web/Terminus/Web/main.html Command Challenge: https://cmdchallenge.com/

Desktop Environments: KDE Userbase: https://userbase.kde.org/Welcome_to_KDE_UserBase Sway Wiki: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki i3 documentation: https://i3wm.org/docs/ Hyprland wiki: https://wiki.hyprland.org/

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:54 Sirius 16 Overview 02:00 Design and build quality 04:19 Performance & Battery life 07:03 Ports 08:21 Display 09:00 Touchpad & Keyboard 10:24 Speakers, mic & webcam 11:18 Price & configuration

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The Sirius 16 is decidedly aimed at Linux gaming or workstation use cases. Its 16.1 inches with a 2K resolution of 2560x1440, so it's 16:9, better for gaming IMO than 16:10, but less good for other tasks.

It has a full aluminium chassis, an 80Wh battery, it can accomodate up to 96 gigs of RAM, 8 terabytes of PCIe 4 SSD, and it comes with USB 4, the latest HDMI 2.1 and Wifi 6E. But what matters is what's inside, and that's a ryzen 7 7840HS, and a radeon 7600M XT, with 8 gigs of DDR6 VRAM. The aluminium chassis really feels solid, and the whole laptop is pretty hefty, at 2.2 kilos, or 4.8 pounds.

The CPU is a ryzen 7 7840HS, it's 8 cores, 16 threads, running at a top speed of 5.1Ghz. In geekbench 6, it got 2640 in single core, and 12635 in multi core, so it's more powerful than the i7 13700H I use daily on my own laptop.

browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/5180453

In terms of gaming, I ran the benchmark for horizon zero dawn. At the native resolution and max settings, the game got 77 FPS, perfectly playable with a very nice looking experience. Lowering that 1080p and using FSR on the quality setting, still at the max settings, I got 116 FPS. And at high details, 1080p with FSR on the quality settings, you reach 118 FPS, so you’ll be able to make use of that displays high refresh rate!

And all of this runs in hybrid graphics mode by default, at least on the preinstalled Tuxedo OS my review unit came with.

The laptop, running at half brightness with wifi on, playing videos in a loop, lasted for 6 hours.

On the left side, you have a USB 1 3.2 Gen 2 port, a headphone jack, and a separate mic jack. On the right, you have a fingerprint reader, which unfortunately, doesn't support Linux.

You also get a USB C port, 4.0 Gen 3x2, it supports power delivery and displayport 1.4, and it's hardwired to the integrated GPU, and on the right, you also have another USB A 3.2 Gen2.

On the back, you get a barrel charger, a gigabit ethernet port, an HDMI 2.1 port that supports freesync and is hardwired to the dedicated GPU, and a USB C 3.2 Gen 2x1 port, that supports display port, freesync, and is hardwired to the dedicated GPU as well.

The display can run up to 165hz, but can go down to 120, 96, 72 or 69hz. Viewing angles are perfect, and it covers 100% of sRGB, with a contrast ratio of 1000:1. it's 300 nits of brightness which isn't bad but it isn't the birghtest ever, and it supports AMD Freesync. It's 2K, so 2560 by 1440p.

The keyboard is a rubber membrane affair, that feels really good to type on. it's quiet, key travel is ok the keys don't get stuck they're stable, so you can press from a corner and activate them, and you get a numpad which is a personel preference. You also get a tux branded key, full size arrow keys that are slightly off compared to the rest of the keyboard, which I hated at first, but kinda like now, because it makes them really easy to find. They keyboard is RGB backlit, you can control that in the tuxedo control center, to change the color and the brightness to anything you like, or you can press function + space bar to turn it on or off.

The touchpad is really smooth and sturdy, it's big enough, it's really off center though, which some people like, but I don't, I like things centered. It produces a very reassuring solid click, it doesn't rattle at all, it's really nice, and works with gestures as well.

The Sirius 16 comes with 4 speakers, which sound really nice. The mic is nothing to write home about, it's ok for small chats. As per the webcam, it goes up to 1080p 30, which isn't bad, and it doesn't yield horrible results at all.

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:33 Sponsor: SquareX 01:58 Ranking Criteria 02:44 Ubuntu 03:45 Linux Mint 04:31 Zorin OS 05:23 elementaryOS 05:58 Fedora 06:46 Debian Stable 07:45 OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 08:14 OpenSUSE Leap 08:50 Arch Linux 09:44 Manjaro 10:31 Tuxedo OS 11:40 Pop!_OS 12:32 Solus 13:19 Gentoo 13:51 KDE Neon 14:12 Asahi Linux / Fedora Asahi 14:46 NixOS 15:36 HoloISO 16:09 Nobara 16:39 Vanilla OS 17:06 ChromeOS Flex 17:41 Deepin 18:29 Sponsor: Tuxedo

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00:00 Intro 00:35 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 01:32 Open Source Nvidia drivers are already pretty good 04:11 Color management and HDR work progress 05:39 Microsoft's AI studio runs on Linux only 06:54 Plasma 6 beta 2, and a new KDE theme 08:52 Fedora Asahi is out 10:10 Flipboard and Threads will move to ActivityPub and the Fediverse 12:03 Gaming: VkD3D and Proton Experimental 13:29 Support the channel

Open Source Nvidia drivers are already pretty good

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/nvk-holiday-update.html

Color management and HDR work progress

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2023/12/18/update-on-hdr-and-colormanagement-in-plasma.html

Microsoft's AI studio runs on Linux only

https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsofts-new-windows-ai-studio-developer-tool-makes-you-install-linux-to-use-it

Plasma 6 beta 2, and a new KDE theme

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/beta2/

https://carlschwan.eu/2023/12/19/announcing-brise-theme/

Fedora Asahi is out

https://fedoramagazine.org/introducing-fedora-asahi-remix-39/

Flipboard and Threads will move to AtivityPub and the Fediverse

https://flipboard.medium.com/flipboard-begins-to-federate-c56ec788feaa

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Gaming: VkD3D and Proton Experimental

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/proton-experimental-brings-more-hdr-steam-overlay-hack-for-easy-anti-cheat-from-eos/

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Timecodes: 00:00 Introduction 01:07 Sponsor: Proton Mail 02:14 Weird, but good GNOME implementation 06:00 The "Spatial desktop" 08:17 Enhanced Tiling & layouts 10:03 Under the hood 12:26 Windows app support & other things 14:34 Does it regain the crown? 17:15 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 18:24 Support the channel

Zorin OS 17 doesn't use the very latest, it's based on GNOME 43, not 45. The Software store is the one from GNOME 45, but other apps are the version from GNOME 42, like the image viewer or the file manager.

You still get access to desktop layouts, which let you change how your desktop looks and feels in one click. You also get a Zorin appearance app with accent colors, dark mode, support for other themes, and a few other options to change how the interface looks and feels, but that's all stuff Zorin OS 16 already had.

As per Zorin specific changes, the default Zorin menu now gives you a search box, to find anything you want, it uses the GNOME shell search backend, so you can enable or disable providers in the settings. You also gain an "all apps" category to see everything sorted alphabetically.

Also, Zorin OS seems to default to Wayland now,

It brings back the desktop cube. It can be enabled in the Zorin appearance settings, and it's triggered as a replacement for the activities view: instead of the strip of desktops, you get the desktop cube. You can make it turn with touchpad gestures, and windows are laid out with a nice parallax effect, floating over the desktop.

The alt tab window switcher can also be replaced with a more visual, 3D version of the default, and again, it looks good, but it's not more usable: you don't see all windows as well as a basic alt tab strip of thumbnails and icons, and it makes it harder to actually get to what you're looking for, because you don't have the full list of app icons visible all at once.

Zorin OS added advanced tiling. Again, it needs to be enabled in the Zorin Appearance settings, and it gives you not only quarter tiling, but also a lot of other options. When you tile a window to a screen edge, you get a little pop-up to fill the rest of the space with another open window, and it creates tile groups, meaning that bringing one of the window to the fore will also bring the other one alongside it.

You can also turn on tiling layouts. They're not the most legible or easy to create, as you can't just place your windows how you want them, and save that as a layout, you have to enter relatively cryptic series of numbers to define the percentage of the display each zone occupies.

Under the hood, Zorin OS 17 is Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, so you're getting packages that are close to being 2 years old. It adds snap and flatpak, with flathub enabled.

Zorin uses the Linux kernel 6.2, which, ehhh well it's end of life, and has been since May 2023,

You're also stuck at the nvidia drivers 535, so not 545, the latest ones that fix a LOT of Wayland related issues, and the mesa drivers are 23.0, where 23.3 was released recently, with a lot of improvements for recent hardware.

Zorin OS also still keeps the cool things they add on the side: first you get Zorin connect, which is KDE connect and the GS Connect extension for GNOME shell. You also get an easy one click install of Wine, called Windows app support. It installs Wine, and PlayOnLinux, so you can try and run various windows executables, but both of these are super outdated.

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00:00 Intro 01:16 How did Proton start? 03:24 Why start with email? 06:03 What is Proton's business model? 08:34 Why set up in Switzerland? 11:33 What data do you have on customers? 14:39 How is encryption important? 18:20 Do you always need to use a VPN? 20:47 Why focus on building an ecosystem? 24:55 Is an Office Suite planned? 26:29 What differentiates Proton from competitors? 30:26 Is Proton a viable alternative to big tech services? 33:31 Why expand to more products instead of finishing existing ones? 37:19 Does the general public care about privacy? 38:45 What's next for Proton services? 40:08 What are the plans for native Linux clients? 46:03 Will ProtonVPN offer dedicated IPs to everyone? 47:46 What's the environmental impact of Proton? 49:27 Proton on F-Droid, without Google Play notifications? 52:03 Why are code repos all separated and hard to find? 53:12 Why are addresses ending in ".me" ? 54:57 When will all apps reach feature parity? 56:24 Will SMTP relay be supported? 57:47 Will Proton focus more on businesses in the future? 59:50 Why put all your eggs in one basket with just Proton services? 01:01:00 Will Proton support passkeys? 01:03:21 Does E2E matter is the recipient isn't using it? 01:04:49 Will Proton disable port forwarding in VPN? 01:06:41 Is encryption enough to make email private? 01:09:06 What protects users from a change in Proton's code licensing? 01:11:14 How does Proton protect its infrastructure? 01:13:14 Impacts of Quantum Computing on privacy and security? 01:14:24 What's the future of Proton Bridge? 01:16:25 When will Proton photos be a thing? 01:17:17 Plans for Proton Notes? 01:18:20 Will VPN support the Apple TV? 01:21:12 Support the channel

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#Linux #OpenSource #TechNews #Ubuntu

Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:36 Sponsor: 10% off your first ebsite with Squarespace 01:33 Linus Torvalds talks about the future of Linux 03:58 Ubuntu might drop older CPUs 06:57 LXQt working on Wayland as well 08:33 Cosmic gets more improvements 09:48 GNOME & KDE updates 11:45 Gaming: Linux beats Windows, No Fortnite on Linux 15:17 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 16:24 Support the channel

Linus Torvalds talks about the future of Linux

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-on-state-of-linux-today-and-how-ai-figures-in-its-future/

Ubuntu might drop older CPUs

https://ubuntu.com/blog/optimising-ubuntu-performance-on-amd64-architecture

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-LTS-Desktop-Plans

LXQt working on Wayland as well

https://lubuntu.me/noble-alpha-featureset/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lubuntu-24.04-LTS-Plans

https://lubuntu.me/noble-alpha-featureset/

Cosmic gets more improvements

https://blog.system76.com/post/the-spirit-of-cosmic-december-updates

GNOME & KDE updates

https://pointieststick.com/2023/12/15/this-week-in-kde-un-flashy-important-stability-work/

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/12/twig-126/

Gaming: Linux beats Windows, No Fortnite on Linux

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/fortnite-on-linux-steam-deck-not-until-tens-of-millions-of-users/

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/announcements/detail/3860211327585452520

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-scores-dead-last-in-gaming-performance-tests-against-3-Linux-gaming-distros.778624.0.html

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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:51 Sponsor: ProtonVPN 02:21 Standardization and cohesiveness 05:31 Packaging formats and app distribution 07:17 Display, Wayland, HDR, and scaling 09:27 Drivers, graphics and firmware 11:40 Gaming 13:06 App support 14:31 More challenges? 17:02 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 18:00 Support the channel

#Linux #desktop #operatingsystem #linuxdesktop #linuxdistro

Unified theming between desktops is pretty much abandoned as a thing that should be pursued, but we're also seeing an accent colors standard emerge. And that's complimented by the work being done on portals. With portals for settings, screenshots, remote desktops, printing, sending email, creating shortcuts or transferring files, there's now a solid abstraction layer between your desktop and the apps it runs.

But, for now, we're not there yet. These standards are progressing, but they're not all encompassing, and they're not implemented equally across all desktops. The big ones, like GNOME and KDE, sure, but other smaller options aren't there yet.

Packaging formats, at the end of 2023, are in a bad state. Linux packaging has never been messier. As neither flatpak nor snap are fully ready for 100% of applications, some stuff simply can't be packaged using these, and they still have drawbacks that some users don't want to deal with. Which means a lot of app developers still can't say "hey, this is what we should be using now".

The display situation is much better though. X11 is now clearly abandonware, and work on Wayland has been stellar in 2023. Mostly all desktops now have plans for Wayland, everyone is in agreement.

Added to that, work on supporting HDR has moved by leaps and bounds, and we'll see a fully working implementation in 2024. Fractional scaling is now properly implemented on Wayland as well, meaning we can finally do non blurry scaling, with different scaling per monitor, and different refresh rates per monitor as well.

As per drivers, we've seen some solid progress as well. AMD now has solid drivers on launch day for their GPUs, Intel has finished their Xe driver, Arc GPUs are now well supported, and nvidia drivers have progressed a lot. We're also seeing very strong efforts for open source nvidia drivers.

As per firmware, the linux firmware vendor system, or LVFS has also seen broad adoption, letting you apply firmware updates on the fly and easily. This already supplied 100 million firmware updates, and Google is even pushing manufacturers to support that for their own Linux based Chrome OS.

Gaming has been incredible in 2023. Not only did Linux pass macOS market share for Steam, but we've seen great support for the Steam Deck, which, in turn, means great support for Linux. Sure, it's all driven by Proton and Wine, it's not native Linux ports, but my opinion is that it doesn't matter: if you can click install, and then play, and run the game with the performance you'd expect, things are good.

Non steam gaming has also progressed immensely, with Heroic becoming a really fantastic launcher for Gog and EPic Games, and Lutris still handling most of the rest.

Now for app support, I'd say we haven't seen many improvements in 2023. Sure, our own open source apps have progressed this year, but the usual suspects are still missing, that would let a lot more people move to Linux. Still no Office, Adobe apps, a lot of content creation software, or CAD software are still missing, with no indication that it will change.

The big challenge I can see is AI integration in the desktop. It's a move Microsoft is making with Windows 12, adding AI powered search, and automations throughout the desktop. Whether we should chase that trend on Linux, I'll let you decide, but what's certain is that once users have had a few years to get used to one click buttons that save 30 minutes, it will be hard to go back.

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#Linux #OpenSource #technews

Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:34 Sponsor: 10% off your first website with Squarespace 01:31 Zorin OS 17 beta 03:49 Mint 21.3 brings Wayland support 05:03 Giant AI alliance forming 06:33 EU regulates AI 08:00 systemd brings blue screen of death 09:38 Giant security flaw affects most Windows and Linux systems 11:18 GNOME improves scaling & triple buffering 13:25 Gaming News: Steam Deck, wine on Wayland 15:23 Sponsor: Get a PC made to run Linux 16:27 Support the channel

Zorin OS 17 beta

https://blog.zorin.com/2023/12/04/a-sneak-peek-at-zorin-os-17/

https://linuxiac.com/zorin-os-17-beta-unveiled-with-striking-improvements/

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/12/zorin-os-17-beta-released7

Mint 21.3 brings Wayland support

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4604

Giant AI alliance forming

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/12/meta-ibm-assemble-open-source-ai-alliance

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/ai-alliance-launches-international-community-leading-technology-developers-researchers-and-adopters-collaborating-together-advance-open-safe-responsible-ai

The EU regulates AI

https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/eu-provisional-agreement-ai-act-regulate-artificial-intelligence

systemd brings blue screen of death

https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-255

Giant security flaw affects most Windows and Linux systems

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/just-about-every-windows-and-linux-device-vulnerable-to-new-logofail-firmware-attack/

GNOME improves scaling + triple buffering

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Better-Text-Scaling

https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/12/twig-125/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Triple-Buffering-Ready

Gaming News: Steam Deck, SteamOS, wine on Wayland

https://www.phoronix.com/review/steam-deck-oled-benchmarks

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Relative-Mouse