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Fedora Asahi Remix 41 brings AAA gaming to Apple Silicon with Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Fedora Asahi Remix 41 is out now bringing the most polished version of Linux for Apple Silicon Macs, along with support for AAA gaming.

Linux Mint 22.1 Beta released with Cinnamon 6.4 desktop and lots of Wayland improvements

By Liam Dawe,
Linux Mint 22.1 is coming soon with a Beta release now available for testing, which includes the brand new Cinnamon 6.4 desktop release.
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Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) gets funding from Sovereign Tech Agency

By Liam Dawe,
Seems like Arch Linux is going from strength to strength lately. Not only have Valve begun funding parts of the Linux distribution but now the Sovereign Tech Agency are as well.

PlaytronOS Alpha 2 brings expanded NVIDIA support, more handheld PC support and much more

By Liam Dawe,
Playtron continue building up their PlaytronOS / GameOS (they don't seem to have settled properly on a name yet) alternative to SteamOS and Windows with a second Alpha release out now.

Fedora KDE gets approval to be upgraded to sit alongside Fedora Workstation

By Liam Dawe,
Fedora Workstation with GNOME is the main edition of the Fedora Linux distribution, but their Fedora KDE Desktop Spin just got approval to become a lot more important.

Manjaro Linux want your system info with their new data collection tool

By Liam Dawe,
The Manjaro Linux team are asking for testers for their new data collection tool called "Manjaro Data Donor", which they plan to have as opt-out and not opt-in.

New release of Raspberry Pi OS brings Wayland to all models with a new compositor

By Liam Dawe,
The Raspberry Pi team have released a brand new version of the Raspberry Pi OS that brings with it Wayland support to all models.

Linux Mint partners up with Framework, also working on Night Light for Cinnamon desktop

By Liam Dawe,
Some fun Linux distro news for you this morning as the Linux Mint team have a fresh blog post up on what they've been doing and it's quite exciting to see.

Bazzite updated to Fedora 41 with expanded PC gaming handheld support

By Liam Dawe,
Bazzite Linux has seen an upgrade to the just released Fedora 41, and with it comes lots of extra enhancements to their support of various PC gaming handhelds from AYANEO, ROG Ally and others.

Fedora 41 is out now with plenty of enhancements like easier NVIDIA driver installs

By Liam Dawe,
Fedora 41 is officially out now and brings with it plenty of upgrades for all users. Here's just some of what's new and improved.

SteamOS alternative Bazzite adds support for OneXPlayer plus improvements for ROG Ally

By Liam Dawe,
Bazzite is a SteamOS alternative that just keeps getting better. So while Valve have yet to release the Steam Deck version of SteamOS for others, Bazzite could be one of your best choices for Linux on handhelds.

Ubuntu 24.10, Kubuntu 24.10 and other Linux flavours now officially released

By Liam Dawe,
The day is here. Canonical have announced the release of Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole), along with various flavours like Kubuntu 24.10 now being available.

More info on the Valve (Steam) collab with Arch Linux and potential future hardware support

By Liam Dawe,
Recently we had the big news that Valve (Steam) began a collaboration with Arch Linux, to help fund two very specific parts of the Linux distribution. Now, we have a bit more info on what it means.

Valve (Steam) begin a direct collaboration with Arch Linux

By Liam Dawe,
This is some pretty exciting news! The Arch Linux team have announced a new direct collaboration with Valve (Steam).

Ubuntu 24.10 gets a new Snap feature to handle prompting for app permissions

By Liam Dawe,
Canonical are continuing to advance their own Snap packaging system, with the Ubuntu 24.10 development builds getting a new permission prompt feature.

SteamFork is yet another Linux distribution aiming to be a SteamOS-like for handhelds

By Liam Dawe,
Attack of the clones! Well, sort of anyway. We have Bazzite, ChimeraOS, HoloISO and now SteamFork as well. There's so much choice to get Linux on your handhelds.

Square Enix invests in Playtron for their Linux-based PlaytronOS - first Alpha out now

By Liam Dawe,
Playtron are quietly building up their Linux-based PlaytronOS behind the scenes, and not only have they released their first Alpha but they've pulled in another investor too.

Bazzite Linux gets keyboard-less installation (good for handhelds) and smaller updates

By Liam Dawe,
Bazzite, the Fedora-based version of Linux that's designed for the "next generation of Linux gaming" has a fresh release out with some great improvements, especially for gaming handhelds like the Steam Deck OLED, Lenovo Legion Go, ASUS ROG Ally and others.

KDE Plasma 6.2 adding a pop-up for donations, plus they want to make a next-generation KDE OS

By nwildner,
A recent change was proposed last month to implement an on-by-default KDED (KDE Daemon) module that will gently ask you to donate to KDE as a pop-up on your notification system inside the KDE Plasma desktop, planned for version 6.2.

Canonical bring more Steam Snap improvements, also hiring more Desktop Software Engineers

By Liam Dawe,
Canonical developers continue working towards Ubuntu 24.10, the next release of the popular Linux distribution, and thankfully more fixes are coming for the Steam Snap package.
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