Linux Graphics & Gaming News
Prominent Asahi Linux developer Sven Peter provided an update at this week's 39th Chaos Communication Congress (39C3) in Hamburg, Germany. He discussed the ongoing work to bring up Apple M3, M4, and M...
Read more →Between December 17 and December 24, a total of 34 new games with native Linux clients were released on Steam. Boiling Steam reported on this influx, noting that "the week before Christmas is usually ...
Read more →Shotcut 25.12, the open-source video editor, was released today, bringing significant enhancements for Linux users and professional workflows. The update introduces full 10-bit video CPU pipeline supp...
Read more →Phoronix recently published benchmarks revealing Windows 11 outperformed Ubuntu Linux on a Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 laptop, equipped with an Intel Arrow Lake H processor. This finding is notable as it...
Read more →Phoronix's year-end 2025 benchmarking analysis, published today, indicates significant performance improvements for Linux 6.19 kernels compiled with LLVM Clang 21, particularly when Link-Time Optimiza...
Read more →Intel's open-source graphics driver engineers have submitted the final drm-xe-next pull request of 2025 for the Linux kernel. This update, sent out today, introduces new feature material for the next ...
Read more →The PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2 released version 2.5.401 yesterday. This update primarily includes specific compatibility enhancements for the game Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior. The release incorpo...
Read more →Igalia announced about a month ago, in November 2025, their collaboration with Valve focused on optimizing Vulkan for upcoming Steam devices. The engineering efforts have involved implementing and rev...
Read more →Hyprland 0.53 was released today, December 30, 2025, as the last feature update for the Wayland compositor in 2025. This release includes significant breaking changes, such as a complete overhaul of t...
Read more →Linux 6.19-rc3 was released by Linus Torvalds this week, incorporating a collection of fixes. The release candidate is described as "light", aligning with expectations during the Christmas week when m...
Read more →KDE developer Nate Graham stated today that the KDE Plasma desktop's Wayland transition "nears completion" as 2025 concludes. In a recent blog post, Graham highlighted the progress made throughout the...
Read more →Phoronix recently published a performance comparison between Intel's i915 and Xe kernel drivers for Arc Alchemist GPUs on Linux 6.19. The i915 driver is currently the default for Intel Arc A-Series "A...
Read more →DXVK that implements Direct3D 6 and 7 APIs on top of Vulkan for Linux.">D7VK 1.1 was released today, December 29, 2025, introducing an experimental Direct3D 6 frontend. This update also includes various fixes for its existing Direct3D 7 implementation. D7VK is a fork of D...
Read more →The Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL), a fundamental component used by many cross-platform games and integrated into the Steam Runtime, recently received a fix to significantly improve its mouse button...
Read more →The PorteuX 2.5 Linux distribution is now available for download, featuring significant updates across its core components and desktop environments. This release introduces Flatpak support for enhance...
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