Steam On Linux Use Recedes Slightly During August For the Steam Survey results published last month for July it showed Steam on Linux use approaching 3%. With hitting 2.89% in July there was hope that perhaps in August it would breach the elusive 3.0% threshold not seen since the original days of Steam on Linux when the overall Steam user base was also much smaller than it is today. But that didn't pan out and Steam on Linux numbers for Au…

Steam On Linux Use Recedes Slightly During August - Phoronix

For the Steam Survey results published last month for July it showed Steam on Linux use approaching 3%

GIMP 3.1.4 Released With A Project From 2006 Resurrected And Another Big Feature GIMP 3.1.4 is out today as the second development release treking toward GIMP 3.2. Most notable with GIMP 3.1.4 are the initial implementations of two of the main features planned for GIMP 3.2: link layers and vector layers...

GIMP 3.1.4 Released With A Project From 2006 Resurrected And Another Big Feature - Phoronix

GIMP 3.1.4 is out today as the second development release treking toward GIMP 3.2

Rust 1.90 Switching To LLD Linker On Linux For Faster Linking Times With the Rust 1.90 release due out in mid-September, the Rust compiler on Linux x86_64 will begun using the LLD linker by default in order to "significantly reduce" linking times...

Rust 1.90 Switching To LLD Linker On Linux For Faster Linking Times - Phoronix

With the Rust 1.90 release due out in mid-September, the Rust compiler on Linux x86_64 will begun using the LLD linker by default in order to &#039...

Linux's exFAT File-System Driver Optimization Leads To 16.5x Speedup For Loading Time A patch queued up into the Linux exFAT driver's development tree optimizes the allocation bitmap loading time. For cases of small cluster sizes on large partitions this can yield around 16x faster loading times...

Linux's exFAT File-System Driver Optimization Leads To 16.5x Speedup For Loading Time - Phoronix

A patch queued up into the Linux exFAT driver's development tree optimizes the allocation bitmap loading time

Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable For those using the upstream open-source NVIDIA Linux driver "Nouveau", with a pending fix coming for Linux 6.17 and existing kernel releases it should be a much more stable and reliable experience...

Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable - Phoronix

For those using the upstream open-source NVIDIA Linux driver 'Nouveau', with a pending fix coming for Linux 6.17 and existing kernel rele...

KDE Krita Merge Request Opened For Wayland Color Management The Krita digital painting and graphics editing application aligned with KDE/Qt could soon have color management support working on Wayland Linux desktops for enjoying a better creative experience on HDR (High Dynamic Range) displays...

KDE Krita Merge Request Opened For Wayland Color Management - Phoronix

The Krita digital painting and graphics editing application aligned with KDE/Qt could soon have color management support working on Wayland Linux d...

Linux 6.17 Adds Support For Logitech G PRO 2 LIGHTSPEED, Wacom Art Pen 2 & More This week's round of HID subsystem "fixes" for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel include adding a number of new device IDs and other alterations for supporting new hardware...

Linux 6.17 Adds Support For Logitech G PRO 2 LIGHTSPEED, Wacom Art Pen 2 & More - Phoronix

This week's round of HID subsystem 'fixes' for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel include adding a number of new device IDs and ot...

Wayfire 0.10 Wayland Compositor Brings Experimental Vulkan Rendering Wayfire 0.10 was released this week and its integration with the underlying wlroots rendering code has been overhauled. In turn this opens up Wayfire to having experimental support for rendering using the Vulkan API...

Wayfire 0.10 Wayland Compositor Brings Experimental Vulkan Rendering - Phoronix

Wayfire 0.10 was released this week and its integration with the underlying wlroots rendering code has been overhauled

DXVK 2.7.1 Delivers Improved Performance For Some Direct3D 9 Titles Philip Rebohle working for Valve just released DXVK 2.7.1 as the newest version of this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan API translation layer. DXVK 2.7.1 enables yet more games to correctly render now with DXVK on Linux...

DXVK 2.7.1 Delivers Improved Performance For Some Direct3D 9 Titles - Phoronix

Philip Rebohle working for Valve just released DXVK 2.7.1 as the newest version of this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan API translation layer

GTK 4.20 Released With Better Wayland Support, Rendering Enhancements GTK 4.20 released on Friday as the newest version of this open-source toolkit aligned with the GNOME project. GTK 4.20 brings improved support for Wayland on Linux along with platform enhancements for macOS, Android, and Windows too...

GTK 4.20 Released With Better Wayland Support, Rendering Enhancements - Phoronix

GTK 4.20 released on Friday as the newest version of this open-source toolkit aligned with the GNOME project