Nvidia is reportedly bringing official Linux support to GeForce Now soon, not just for Steam Deck
https://www.pcguide.com/news/nvidia-is-reportedly-bringing-official-linux-support-to-geforce-now-soon-not-just-for-steam-deck/

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There Is No One Left On Debian's Data Protection Team
https://www.phoronix.com/news/No-Debian-Data-Protection-Team

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Valve & AMD Developers Delivered The Most Code Contributions To Mesa In 2025
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Git-Stats-2025

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Flathub most downloaded Apps and Games in 2025
https://redd.it/1q7t5y7
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Linus Torvalds: "The AI slop issue is *NOT* going to be solved with documentation"
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-Linux-Kernel-AI-Slop

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Mumbai metro runs on Ubuntu
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I made windows 8 start menu for linux
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(Takes drag of cigarette) I love kernal logging.

I just had a realization while dialing in my daily driver.

I have a Lenovo laptop. It’s a beast. I love it. It shipped with Windows and it was clunky out of the box. Random freezes. Fingerprint reader would just quit working for a time. The one that haunted me was the keyboard. It would just drop off. Sometimes twice in a few hours, sometimes it wouldn’t happen again for a week or a month.

I chased that shit for six months.

Logs. Google-fu. Microsoft forums. Support tickets. The whole time it was just “try this… maybe?” vibes. No answers. The problem never actually went away.

So I before I got too deeply committed, I put Linux Mint on it. And yeah, it locked up twice while I was doing normal stuff. But here’s the differenence. THERE WAS A LOG. I looked at it and Xorg had absolutely biffed it. Turns out some ancient Xorg 2D rendering thing called glamor was hard-locking the graphics and tying up the kernel resulting in it doing absolutely noting. Hard freeze.

I googled glamor. Learned it’s optional. Turned it off. Problem gone.

And that’s when it clicked. When Linux breaks, it usually tells you exactly what broke. It doesn’t just shrug and tell you to reinstall or wait for an update fairy.

Sure, the very next day Ubuntu Server decided to “help” by installing its own postfix on a box running Mailcow, tied up port 25, and crashed my mail stack… but at least I knew why that happened too.

This is why I love running my own junk. It’s not that nothing breaks. It’s that when it does, the system leaves clues that I myself can Sherlock out.

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Found a fix for ryzen laptops that don't like to wake up from sleep (Tried for 7000 series and AI 300 series)

EDIT: This is not asking for support or help! Just want to clarify.

So about two months back I bought the Acer Swift 14 AI with a ryzen AI 365 / 32 gigs of ram / 1TB drive for about 650ish. Was a pretty good deal, installed arch and besides the wrestling match to get the speakers to play audio I was having a great experience.

It wasn't until I started putting it into my bag and putting the device to sleep that I would notice. I would leave my morning uni class and go get coffee with a friend and then when I pull my laptop out to take some notes down before the next class, it wouldn't wake up. Kind of thing where you mash the caps key or press the space bar a few times, but after 1-2 minutes I gave up and had to hard power off, and turn on the machine again to get it to get back into linux. This issue was so bad that I considered going back to windows all together because after two months I was tired of it, but then read an interesting forum post from another user seeing that the iommu would have issues waking up.

I use systemd boot, so I went to the conf file in /boot/loader/entries/ to edit my arch.conf.

under the options line, I added amd_iommu=off at the end, saved it, rebooted. I have never had an issue since I added it.

For grub you would have to edit the grub config file in /etc/default/grub

at the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= add amd_iommu=off, save it and then update the grub.

Hope this fixes the issue for someone else, because even after asking other people and suggesting it was kernel panic I wasn't able to find a fix.

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Linux kernel AES library seeing improvements for better performance & more
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-AES-Library-2026

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Made/making the transition from windows to linux, happy so far. Hello, Linux fam.

I recently got a steam deck (Christmas) and after tooling around with it a bit, I decided to clear one of my three SSD's to make room for a Linux OS. I intend to keep my windows OS on the main drive for backup, and in case I simply can't get a game or app to function properly that I want to play/use. GTA being a good example off the top of my head.

I went through a few distros. The last one was Pop! OS, and I was not satisfied at all with it. Mostly, I struggled with performance. It may have been something I did wrong, but I could not get it to multitask to save my life. If I had a steam download going and tried to open Firefox, the task bar/explorer would just lock up. It didn't crash or freeze what it was doing in steam, but it wouldn't let me do anything else until I logged out, forcing the steam download to stop.

I'm sure there was some workaround or what have you, but part of the reason I'm only just now getting around to making the switch is because I didn't want that kind of headache.

Now, today, I decided to try another one, and I settled on Bazzite, and so far, I'm fairly pleased. Haven't had major performance issues, got most of my go-to's installed.
The only issue I've had is I cannot seem to get BNet installed through Lutris, but it's not a huge deal, as there are only a few games on there that I would like to play (D2R, D3, and the MW franchise) and I can always swap over to Windows for those.

I've got high hopes that this will be the OS I settle on, unless steam fully releases SteamOS in the near future, and I'm interested in learning more about how to work with Linux in general. Hopefully there's something like a beginner's guide out there that'll get me to a point where I'm comfortable messing with the terminal. If anyone knows of such a resource, and can point me to it, I'd appreciate it, but this is more of a "greetings to the community" post than "help me" post.

Also, there's something about being on Linux that makes me want to game even more than normal. Probably just the relative novelty for me, but I noticed a kind of excitement that I haven't felt since I was a kid, and that was a pleasant experience. Curious if anyone else experienced that early on.



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Canonical builds Steam snap for ARM64, uses FEX to run x86 games
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/call-for-testing-steam-snap-for-arm64/74719

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European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
https://lwn.net/Articles/1053107/

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BULK INSTALL ALL YOUR FAVOURITE APPS IN ONE GO
https://redd.it/1q86doh
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Plasma 6.6 will let you reduce (or increase) the separator lines intensity
https://redd.it/1q875ye
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I made a video on my favorite Open Source TUIs
https://youtu.be/DfA9DjleY_E?si=YyYaYLSAJPU0KuMi

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Happy birthday, bash!
https://redd.it/1q8o0x6
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This Week in Plasma: car of the year edition - KDE Blogs
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/10/this-week-in-plasma-car-of-the-year-edition/

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The 'gmail' equivalent in Linux environment

Done with windows after 26 years. Now full port ubuntu.

Still retaining Gmail and onedrive. And would like to ask fellow Linux users, what are the most popular, endorsed email service provider (with or without cloud storage) in the Linux environment?

I've heard of Proton, and would like to learn more from the community.

Thank you :)

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SwayFX has finally got animations!
https://redd.it/1q8wvep
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Can Linux be a better Macintosh?

I have been using Linux since last 4 years, started with linux mint and now on fedora KDE workstation. I have friends using windows and Mac. I have used mac for about a month on a borrowed macbook air.

Although I just don't like most of the design language of macOS and their laptops are lacking, their are some other things that are just good on it.

The only thing that I don't like about Linux is the battery drain while being on browsers, electron apps and while playing videos. Even windows is way better is this aspect. I have not tried linux on intel, so not so sure how is the situation on it. Other than this, I have no issues with anything on linux.

MacOS seems so childish to me, designed to be used with mouse more than with keyboard. Too much animations and too much round things. They just spoil the user experience for me.

One thing that I miss out on linux is the connectivity with Android, something like macbook and iphone ecosystem. I do know that there is KDE connect, but it comes with its own problems.

At this point Linux does almost everything that I want without any issues, except power efficiency, ecosystem integration and some other very minor things . Do you guys think these problems can be solved for linux or just the trade-offs that wouldn't be fixed and need to accepted?







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