Unexpected Surprise: Windows 11 Outperforming Linux On An Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop Typically when receiving any review hardware preloaded with Microsoft Windows I tend to run some Windows vs. Linux benchmarks just as a sanity test plus it still seems to generate a fair amount of interest even though the outcome is almost always the same: Linux having a hefty performance advantage over Windows especially in the more demanding creator-type workloads. As an unexpected twi…

Unexpected Surprise: Windows 11 Outperforming Linux On An Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop - Phoronix

Typically when receiving any review hardware preloaded with Microsoft Windows I tend to run some Windows vs.

InputPlumber 0.70 Released With Expanded Hardware Support InputPlumber 0.70 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source input router and re-mapper daemon for Linux systems. With more gaming handhelds coming to market and other controllers as well as the upward trajectory of Linux gaming, InputPlumber is becoming more applicable for this daemon to combine various input devices into different virtual device formats...

InputPlumber 0.70 Released With Expanded Hardware Support - Phoronix

InputPlumber 0.70 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source input router and re-mapper daemon for Linux systems

The Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Enjoyed A Rather Remarkable 2025 The open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers making up Mesa had another very successful year. Even with all the years being invested into Mesa largely by Intel, AMD, Valve, Red Hat, and others, the upward trajectory continues for Mesa on expanding the hardware support, punctually adding new Vulkan extensions, and racking up other wins...

The Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Enjoyed A Rather Remarkable 2025 - Phoronix

The open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers making up Mesa had another very successful year

KDE Plasma's Wayland Transition "Nears Completion" In Ending Out 2025 In addition to today's blog post calling out the need for others to takeover the This Week In Plasma series, KDE developer Nate Graham also published another blog post to highlight the successes of the Plasma desktop over 2025. In particular, the KDE Plasma Wayland transition "nears completion" as it works to become Wayland-only in early 2027...

KDE Plasma's Wayland Transition "Nears Completion" In Ending Out 2025 - Phoronix

In addition to today's blog post calling out the need for others to takeover the This Week In Plasma series, KDE developer Nate Graham also pu...

D7VK 1.1 Released With An Experimental Direct3D 6 Frontend Between the DXVK and VKD3D(-Proton) projects there is good support for Direct3D 8 through Direct3D 12 implementations atop the Vulkan API for Linux gaming usage. For those preferring more retro classic gaming, D7VK came about more recently for Direct3D 7 as a DXVK fork. Out today is D7VK 1.1 and besides delivering fixes for its D3D7 implementation has also now tacked on an experimental D3D6 front-end...

D7VK 1.1 Released With An Experimental Direct3D 6 Frontend - Phoronix

Between the DXVK and VKD3D(-Proton) projects there is good support for Direct3D 8 through Direct3D 12 implementations atop the Vulkan API for Linux...

New Patches Bring Linux Driver Support To 25+ SteelSeries Arctis Gaming Headsets Within the mainline Linux kernel already is the SteelSeries HID driver for supporting basic battery monitoring on the Arctis 1 and Arctis 9 gaming headsets. But a new patch series posted this morning to the Linux kernel mailing list overhaul this SteelSeries HID driver support. The patches take the support to 25+ different Arctis headset models and provide more comprehensive driver support.…

New Patches Bring Linux Driver Support To 25+ SteelSeries Arctis Gaming Headsets - Phoronix

Within the mainline Linux kernel already is the SteelSeries HID driver for supporting basic battery monitoring on the Arctis 1 and Arctis 9 gaming ...

KDE's "This Week In Plasma" Will Become Less Frequent Without New Volunteers The This Week In Plasma series written by KDE developer Nate Graham has been a great way to keep-up with all of the interesting KDE Plasma desktop developments over the past eight years. This Week In Plasma is regularly featured on Phoronix and always provides an interesting weekend look at the very newest innovations to land in Plasma. Unfortunately, This Week In Plasma will become less freque…

KDE's "This Week In Plasma" Will Become Less Frequent Without New Volunteers - Phoronix

The This Week In Plasma series written by KDE developer Nate Graham has been a great way to keep-up with all of the interesting KDE Plasma desktop ...

Fish 4.3 Brings Scripting & Interactivity Improvements, Enhanced Terminal Support Fish 4.3 is out today as the newest update to this user-friendly command line shell. Fish 4.0 released at the beginning of this year in porting the codebase from C++ to Rust and now before closing out 2025 they have out Fish 4.3...

Fish 4.3 Brings Scripting & Interactivity Improvements, Enhanced Terminal Support - Phoronix

Fish 4.3 is out today as the newest update to this user-friendly command line shell

Wine 11.0-rc4 Brings 22 Bug Fixes Wine 11.0-rc4 is out today as the latest weekly release candidate in working toward the stable Wine 11.0 release in January...

Wine 11.0-rc4 Brings 22 Bug Fixes - Phoronix

Wine 11.0-rc4 is out today as the latest weekly release candidate in working toward the stable Wine 11.0 release in January.

Nova Driver Progress & Other NVIDIA Linux News From 2025 This year there was a lot of going on in the NVIDIA Linux world from their official driver stack seeing better Wayland support to a lot on the open-source scene from NVIDIA engineers contributing a lot directly to the Rust-based Nova open-source driver that continues taking shape, the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver becoming more performant and capable, and a lot of other happenings. Here…

Nova Driver Progress & Other NVIDIA Linux News From 2025 - Phoronix

This year there was a lot of going on in the NVIDIA Linux world from their official driver stack seeing better Wayland support to a lot on the open...