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Why Stop Linux Distro Hopping: Embrace Stability and Productivity  WebProNews

10 Hyprland Dotfiles to Transform Your Linux Desktop Bautifully  It's FOSS

SDL Fixes Support For More Than Five Mouse Buttons For Gaming On Wayland  Phoronix

Phoronix reports on "an exciting post-Christmas patch series out on the Linux kernel mailing list" proposing "a new runtime standby ABI that is similar in nature to the 'Modern Standby' functionality found with Microsoft Windows..." Modern Standby is a low-power mode on Windows 11 for letting systems remain connected to the network and appear "sleeping" but will allow for instant wake-up for notifications, music playback, and other functionality. The display is off, the network remains online, and background tasks can wake-up the system if needed with Microsoft Modern Standby... "This series introduces a new runtime standby ABI to allow firing Modern Standby firmware notifications that modify hardware appearance from userspace without suspending the kernel," [according to the email about the proposed patch series]. "This allows userspace to set the inactivity state of the device so that it looks like it is asleep (e.g., flashing the power button) while still being able to perform basic computations..." Those interested can see the RFC patch series for the work in its current form, in particular the documentation patch outlines the proposed /sys/power/standby interface.

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I stopped distro-hopping because this tool lets me run everything at once  MakeUseOf

Meta adopts a Steam Deck Linux trick to fix messy CPU scheduling  TechRadar

Meta adopts a Steam Deck Linux trick to fix messy CPU scheduling  TechRadar

Meta adopts a Steam Deck Linux trick to fix messy CPU scheduling  TechRadar

NVIDIA has been "gradually dropping support for older videocards," notes Hackaday, "with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed." "What's more surprising is the terrible way that this is being handled by certain Linux distributions, with Arch Linux currently a prime example.?" On these systems, updating the OS with a Pascal, Maxwell or similarly unsupported GPU will result in the new driver failing to load and thus the user getting kicked back to the CLI to try and sort things back out there. This issue is summarized by [Brodie Robertson] in a recent video. "Users with GTX 10xx series and older cards must switch to the legacy proprietary branch to maintain support," explains an announcement on the Arch Linux mailing list. But Hackaday points out that using the legacy option "breaks Steam as it relies on official NVIDIA dependencies, which requires an additional series of hacks to hopefully restore this functionality. "Fortunately the Arch Wiki provides a starting point on what to do."

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I finally fixed my Xfce workflow with these simple settings and apps  How-To Geek

Linux 6.19 Kernel Fixes Scheduler Regression, Delivers Performance Gains  WebProNews

CachyOS Plans 2026 Server Edition: Optimized Arch Linux for NAS and Servers  WebProNews

Linux Proposes Runtime Standby ABI for Modern Standby-Like Power Savings  WebProNews

Ubuntu 2025: Rust Powers Security Upgrades and AI Hardware Optimization  WebProNews

UniFi's new travel router, Linux phones, NAS upgrades, and more: News roundup  How-To Geek

How Linux helped me escape tech boredom and endless scrolling  How-To Geek

Intel Open-Source Software Setback: IWD Development Hiatus  Phoronix

Linux 6.19 Lands Fix For ARM64 EFI Systems Crashing On Boot  Phoronix

9 New Linux Distros That Could Grow Big in 2026  It's FOSS

When Linux CEO Linus Torvalds warned the world about NVIDIA, called it the ‘worst company we've worked with’  livemint.com