KaOS begins tearing systemd apart after dropping KDE Plasma last month
…VLC replaced by phonon-mpv as Phonon backend; SDDM 0.20 can run Wayland, 0.21 will default to Wayland. KaOS, a 12-year partner of KDE Plasma, shook the Linux world…
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I gave Linux one final shot at being my daily driver and it finally stuck thanks to a few small fixes
…Nvidia behaving badly on Wayland and a desktop that couldn't drive a 4K HDR high-refresh panel without compromises were my main gripes, and now that those things are non-issues…
Linux's obsession with 'the right way' is why it'll never replace Windows for most people
…Wayland and X11 What even is a display server? Another seemingly never-ending debate within the Linux community is the battle between X11 and Wayland. These are display servers, or window managers…
GNOME 50 killed Google Drive integration because nobody wanted to maintain it
…Related GNOME 50 goes Wayland-only as its alpha build scraps the X11 backend Another desktop environment goes the way of the Wayland.
Every major Linux distro is converging on the same defaults, and here's what we lose when they do
…I'm not going to argue that systemd is a disaster, or that Wayland was a mistake, or that GNOME has ruined the desktop . Plenty of Linux users harbor those opinions, but…
Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive
…The Wayland driver has come a long way. Clipboard support now works bidirectionally between Wine and native Wayland applications, which is one of those things you don't think about until it…
Waydroid runs Android apps on Linux better than Windows ever ran them on WSA
…Ubuntu uses Wayland by default, and so do other distros like KDE Neon and Fedora. If you use a non-Wayland distro like AntiX that uses X11, you’ll have to use…
Drauger OS 7.8 aims to turn Ubuntu into a gaming Linux distro with KDE Plasma
…KDE Plasma 6.5 on Wayland; Firefox as a Flatpak - more VRR/HDR support and no 'snappy' nonsense. One of the coolest things about the Linux community is that if someone wants…
Godot 4.7 finally brings HDR support to Windows, macOS, and Linux
…Sign in to your XDA account Summary Godot 4.7 adds HDR output on Windows, macOS, iOS, visionOS and Linux (Wayland) for richer lighting. New AreaLight3D node enables realistic rectangular lights—great…
Linux finally has working HDR, but you still can't use it for most streaming services
…HDR support has only been added to Wayland compositors, which took some time to be widely adopted. Only recently have mainstream desktops and distros started switching to Wayland entirely, so things have…