Linux

GE-Proton 10-31 brings fixes for Arknights: Endfield, Duet Night Abyss and more  GamingOnLinux

OpenRISC With Linux 7.0 Improves Out-Of-The-Box Support For More FPGA Dev Boards  Phoronix

Linux Mint isn't the best Windows replacement anymore  How-To Geek

InputPlumber 0.74 Released With Hardware Support Improvements  Phoronix

Price of popularity: Linux Mint's success also means maintainer stress  theregister.com

If you dual-boot Linux, don't make these costly 4 mistakes  MakeUseOf

Installing Linux on a MacBook Air "turned out to be a very underwhelming experience," according to the tech news site MakeUseOf: The thing about Apple silicon Macs is that it's not as simple as downloading an AArch64 ISO of your favorite distro and installing it. Yes, the M-series chips are ARM-based, but that doesn't automatically make the whole system compatible in the same way most traditional x86 PCs are. Pretty much everything in modern MacBooks is custom. The boot process isn't standard UEFI like on most PCs. Apple has its own boot chain called iBoot. The same goes for other things, like the GPU, power management, USB controllers, and pretty much every other hardware component. It is as proprietary as it gets. This is exactly what the team behind Asahi Linux has been working toward. Their entire goal has been to make Linux properly usable on M-series Macs by building the missing pieces from the ground up. I first tried it back in 2023, when the project was still tied to Arch Linux and decided to give it a try again in 2026. These days, though, the main release is called Fedora Asahi Remix, which, as the name suggests, is built on Fedora rather than Arch... For Linux on Apple Silicon, the article lists three major disappointments: "External monitors don't work unless your MacBook has a built-in HDMI port." "Linux just doesn't feel fully ready for ARM yet. A lot of applications still aren't compiled for ARM, so software support ends up being very hit or miss." (And even most of the apps tested with FEX "either didn't run properly or weren't stable enough to rely on.") Asahi "refused to connect to my phone's hotspot," they write (adding "No, it wasn't an iPhone").

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A Linux distro has dropped KDE Plasma after 12 years as it tries to escape Systemd  XDA

You can now download a Fedora Atomic OS for your Android device  XDA

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS released with Linux 6.17 + Mesa 25.2  OMG! Ubuntu

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 15th, 2026  LXer: Linux News

Linux 7.0 Merges The Code To Replace The Tux Boot Logo At Build Time  Phoronix

Ubuntu 26.04 splits firmware package to reduce update sizes  OMG! Ubuntu

I installed this Linux distro on my gaming PC, and it runs Windows games better than Windows  MakeUseOf

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 7, 2026 (Feb 9 – 15)  Linuxiac

KaOS Linux Drops KDE Plasma After 12 Years for Niri/Noctalia to Escape systemd  9to5Linux

BPI-R4 Pro Router Board Delivers MT7988A SoC with Tri-Band Wi-Fi 7 Capability  LinuxGizmos.com

I replaced three productivity apps with built-in Linux tools and didn’t miss them  MakeUseOf

Linux Mint is adding post-install home encryption option  OMG! Ubuntu

Linux Mint is adding post-install home encryption option  OMG! Ubuntu