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Manjaro needs testers for the upcoming Manjaro GNOME 20.0 release - Snap and Flatpak support OOTB

By Liam Dawe,
Manjaro Linux is getting ready for their major release, and they're looking for your help to make sure the GNOME edition for Manjaro GNOME 20.0 is as smooth as possible.

The 'GameMode' performance tool from Feral Interactive makes it into Ubuntu 20.04

By Liam Dawe,
As possibly the last feature to be accepted and implemented before the big release, Feral Interactive's GameMode performance tool has been added officially into Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

GNOME's Mutter gets 'fullscreen unredirect' supported on Wayland

By Liam Dawe,
In upcoming versions of GNOME, one quite big change had now been merged in for those of you using it with Wayland.

Linux distribution 'Pop!_OS' has a Beta release for the upcoming 20.04 with automatic window tiling

By Liam Dawe,
Pop!_OS, the Linux distribution based on Ubuntu from the folks at System76 is also getting in on the fun with a Beta release of the upcoming Pop!_OS 20.04.

KDE's window manager KWin gets forked with 'KWinFT' to accelerate the development and better Wayland

By Liam Dawe,
Stick a fork in it! KDE's window manager KWin officially has a full fork with a new project called KWinFT, with an aim to support modern development practices and further expand Wayland support.

Couch-based Linux 'GamerOS' shows how SteamOS could be done - with a new release up

By Liam Dawe,
While SteamOS had a nice idea to bring Linux gaming to the living room, it's currently on hold (although Valve may return to it). Now, there's another choice with the simply named GamerOS.

Ubuntu 20.04 has hit Beta (as have all the extra flavours) - help make it a release to remember

By Liam Dawe,
Ah Ubuntu, it's like a warm cuddly blanket or a favourite jumper. There's others in your wardrobe but nothing is quite like the comfy and safe feel of it. A major new version is approaching with Ubuntu 20.04 which is a "Long Term Support" release.

Distro news: Arch gets a new leader and Manjaro has a new release

By Liam Dawe,
Today we're starting off with a little double-dose of distribution news, helping you to keep up with the wider community around Linux and gaming.

Linux Mint and the Cinnamon desktop progressing well, all-time high donations

By Liam Dawe,
Linux Mint's Clement Lefebvre wrote another of their monthly progress reports on how Linux Mint and their Cinnamon desktop are doing and it's all great news.

Solus 4.1 is out with upgraded drivers, ESync support for better Linux gaming and more

By Liam Dawe,
Solus, the independently developed Linux distribution that also houses the Budgie desktop environment has a big new released tagged with Solus 4.1 Fortitude.

GNOME 3.36 and Fedora 32 to get better GPU switching with NVIDIA support

By Liam Dawe,
Developer Bastien Nocera has written a blog post talking about improvements coming to GNOME 3.36 and Fedora Linux, to help those of you switching between GPUs.

Canonical have listed what 32bit packages they will continue to support through Ubuntu 20.04

By Liam Dawe,
After Canonical announced they would be ending 32bit support earlier this year and then adjusting their plans after the backlash, they've now posted what packages they will look to continue supporting.

Manjaro Linux 18.1.0 'Juhraya' has been officially released

By Liam Dawe,
Manjaro, the Linux distribution based on Arch has just put out a major new release with Manjaro 18.1.0 - Juhraya.

Manjaro levels up as a serious Linux distribution

By Liam Dawe,
Today, the team at Manjaro shared some pretty big news for the future of the Linux distribution and it sounds great.

System76 announce their own graphical Firmware Manager

By Liam Dawe,
System76, the company known for their Linux hardware and the Pop!_OS Linux distribution recently announced their new Firmware Manager.

Linux Mint 19.2 now officially available across multiple desktop flavours

By Liam Dawe,
It's distribution release day! At least for Linux Mint anyway, with Linux Mint 19.2 now officially available across multiple desktop flavours.

Ubuntu LTS releases (and so derivatives too) to get updated NVIDIA drivers without PPAs

By Liam Dawe,
Good news everyone! Canonical will now be offering NVIDIA users up to date graphics drivers without the need to resort to a PPA or anything else.

Debian 10 "Buster" has finally been released

By Liam Dawe,
After around 25 months of development, Debian has now released the next stable version Debian 10 "Buster" which will be supported for five years.

Linux Mint doing a small-form-factor MintBox 3, they don't sound too happy about Snaps

By Liam Dawe,
The Linux Mint team have another monthly update blog post out, to talk about the state of Linux Mint and it sounds like things are going well. They also announced the small-form-factor MintBox 3 and something about Snaps.

Canonical have released a statement on Ubuntu and 32bit support, will keep select packages

By Liam Dawe,
It seems Canonical have done a bit of a U-turn on dropping 32bit support for Ubuntu, as many expected they would do. Their official statement is now out for those interested.
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