Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains(xda-developers.com)

1130 points by felineflock 7 months ago | 402 comments

XDA Developers article on Wine 11 changing how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, with large performance gains.

Look at how unhinged GPU box art was in the 2000s (2024)(xda-developers.com)

171 points by m-hodges 1 year ago | 70 comments

GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client(xda-developers.com)

630 points by franczesko 8 months ago | 343 comments

XDA Developers article reporting that GOG calls Linux the next major frontier for gaming and is developing a native Linux client.

France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk(xda-developers.com)

357 points by pabs3 6 months ago | 197 comments

XDA Developers article reporting that the French government is moving from Windows to Linux, citing dependence on US tech as a strategic risk.

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data(xda-developers.com)

710 points by amichail 11 months ago | 285 comments

XDA Developers article explaining that SSDs left unpowered for long periods gradually lose stored data due to charge leakage in NAND flash.

Nvidia has produced the first Blackwell wafer on US soil(xda-developers.com)

104 points by kristianp 1 year ago | 36 comments

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains(xda-developers.com)

1130 points by felineflock 7 months ago | 402 comments

XDA Developers article on Wine 11 changing how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, with large performance gains.

Linux is good now(pcgamer.com)

1060 points by Vinnl 9 months ago | 847 comments

A PC Gamer opinion piece arguing Linux is now good enough for desktop use and urging readers to switch in 2026 to feel ownership of their PCs.

My first contribution to Linux(vkoskiv.com)

633 points by vkoskiv 1 year ago | 76 comments

A blog post recounting the author's experience upstreaming their first Linux kernel patch, fixing a hardware issue on a 2005 Fujitsu Lifebook S2110.

AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures(jefftk.com)

403 points by speckx 5 months ago | 160 comments

Jeff Kaufman blog post on how AI acceleration strains both coordinated-disclosure and Linux's 'bugs are bugs' vulnerability cultures, using the Copy Fail bug as an example.

A third way of using Linux(hisvirusness.com)

24 points by speckx 20 days ago | 35 comments

Blog post arguing that text user interfaces (TUIs) are an underappreciated third way of using Linux, between the command line and graphical desktops.

2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop(xeiaso.net)

767 points by todsacerdoti 9 months ago | 572 comments

Xe Iaso's blog note announcing a switch from Windows 11 to Fedora Linux as their main desktop OS in 2026, criticizing Microsoft's recent Windows changes.