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Open Gaming Collective unites developers to standardize the Linux gaming experience  Sportskeeda Tech

Open Gaming Collective unites developers to standardize the Linux gaming experience  Sportskeeda Tech

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft's PowerToys team is contemplating building a top menu bar for Windows 11, much like Linux, macOS, or older versions of Windows. The menu bar, or Command Palette Dock as Microsoft calls it, would be a new optional UI that provides quick access to tools, monitoring of system resources, and much more. Microsoft has provided concept images of what it's looking to build, and is soliciting feedback on whether Windows users would use a PowerToy like this. "The dock is designed to be highly configurable," explains Niels Laute, a senior product manager at Microsoft. "It can be positioned on the top, left, right, or bottom edge of the screen, and extensions can be pinned to three distinct regions of the dock: start, center, and end."

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NVIDIA releases native GeForce NOW app for Linux  Mezha

Open Gaming Collective (OGC) formed to unify Linux gaming  KitGuru

These are the 3 coolest Linux apps I found this week  How-To Geek

Linux's ublk Adding Batch I/O Dispatch Capability For Greater Performance  Phoronix

Mike Swanson, commenting on modern software's intrusive, attention-seeking behavior: What if your car worked like so many apps? You're driving somewhere important...maybe running a little bit late. A few minutes into the drive, your car pulls over to the side of the road and asks: "How are you enjoying your drive so far?" Annoyed by the interruption, and even more behind schedule, you dismiss the prompt and merge back into traffic. A minute later it does it again. "Did you know I have a new feature? Tap here to learn more." It blocks your speedometer with an overlay tutorial about the turn signal. It highlights the wiper controls and refuses to go away until you demonstrate mastery. Ridiculous, of course. And yet, this is how a lot of modern software behaves. Not because it's broken, but because we've normalized an interruption model that would be unacceptable almost anywhere else.

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AerynOS 2026.01 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS, GNOME 49.3, and More  9to5Linux

cpx Introduced as a Faster, Modern Replacement for Linux cp  Linuxiac

I Switched From Windows 11 to Linux Mint. Here Are 7 Things It Does Way Better  PCMag

I Switched From Windows 11 to Linux Mint. Here Are 7 Things It Does Way Better  PCMag UK

Microsoft Reportedly Working On Building Back Trust In Windows As More Users Leave For Linux  GameSpot

Microsoft Reportedly Working On Building Back Trust In Windows As More Users Leave For Linux  GameSpot

Microsoft Reportedly Working On Building Back Trust In Windows As More Users Leave For Linux  GameSpot

GPD release their own statement on the confusion with Bazzite Linux support  GamingOnLinux

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Variety: In the future, studios that use synthetic actors in place of humans might have to pay a royalty into a union fund. That's one of the ideas kicking around as SAG-AFTRA prepares to sit down with the studios on Feb. 9. Artificial intelligence was central to the 2023 actors strike, and it's only gotten more urgent since. Social media is awash in slop, while user-made videos of Leia and Elsa are soon to debut on Disney+. And then there's Tilly Norwood -- the digital creation that crystallized AI fears last fall. Though SAG-AFTRA won some AI protections in the strike, it can't stop Tilly and her ilk from taking actors' jobs. As negotiations with studios begin early ahead of the June contract deadline, AI remains the most existential concern. Actors are also pushing to revisit streaming residuals, arguing that current "success bonuses" fall far short of the rerun-based income that once sustained middle-class careers. They also note the strain caused from long streaming hiatuses, exclusivity clauses, and self-taped auditions.

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How a Grassroots Gaming Collective Is Rewriting Linux’s Future on Desktop  WebProNews

Open-Source Nova Driver In Linux 7.0 Continues Preparing For NVIDIA Turing GPU Support  Phoronix

GeForce Now launches on Linux with a Flatpak build — native app brings 5K and 360FPS support to Linux gamers  Tom's Hardware