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Linux Kernel 7.3 will be featuring a scheduler overhaul aimed precisely at gaming performance. If the gains are anything to go by, the update does appear to be quite a success.

Linux Kernel 7.3 will be featuring a scheduler overhaul aimed precisely at gaming performance. If the gains are anything to go by, the update does appear to be quite a success.

Steam Deck owners looking past Valve’s own SteamOS keep landing on the same two names: Bazzite and CachyOS. Both are free, both are built by volunteers, and both claim to squeeze more frames out of the same handheld or desktop rig. But they take almost opposite approaches to getting there, and picking the wrong one…

TL;DR: Epic Games is building a native Linux version of the reworked Epic Games Launcher, confirmed in an AMA. The new launcher abandons Unreal Engine for a Tauri WebView framework, promising faster loads, improved UI, written reviews, and broader cross-platform support, though details on game compatibility and any compatibility layer remain unclear. Voice: DefaultSpeed 0:00…

Linux gaming has made enormous strides over the past few years, to the point where longtime PC gamers have started transitioning to the platform full time. However, one major part of the PC gaming ecosystem has remained stubbornly tied to Windows: Microsoft’s Xbox PC infrastructure and PC Game Pass. A new open-source project called Xodus…

The input subsystem fixes for the week include a number of AI-driven patches to address various information leaks, out-of-bounds accesses, validation fixes, and other coding issues that have turned up recently. Plus some device quirks and also adding support for a rather funky gaming controller to the common XPad Linux driver used by many different…

The hacking community is putting serious money behind an effort to turn Sony’s PlayStation 5 into a full-fledged Linux machine. A $10,000 bounty has been announced for developers who can crack the console’s security restrictions and enable Linux installation, echoing similar efforts from the PS3 era when Sony initially supported alternative operating systems before removing…

Can a gaming PC in 2026 be used without Windows at all? That is the question the team behind the YouTube channel Meta PCs set out to answer. To find out, they installed Windows 11 and Fedora KDE Linux on the same system and compared the two operating systems under conditions that were as identical…