Great News! Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA

Linux has achieved a significant milestone, reaching 5% desktop market share in the USA.

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10 Little-Known Linux Commands You Probably Missed – Part 5

Discover 10 little-known Linux commands in Part 5 that can enhance your productivity and streamline your workflow. Unleash the full potential of your system!

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LTM Monthly Roundup #25.01: Sudo Flaws, Nitrux Hyprland, Disqus Alternative, Network Monitoring, Clipboard on Ubuntu, Coreboot Laptop & More!

Discover the latest in tech with LTM Monthly Roundup #25.01! Explore Sudo flaws, Nitrux Hyprland, Disqus alternatives, and more essential updates.

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Best Free and Open Source Software: June 2025 Updates

Discover the latest updates on the best free and open source software for June 2025.

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KDE Plasma 6.4.2 Improves the Kicker App Menu Widget, Spectacle, and More

Discover the enhancements in KDE Plasma 6.4.2, featuring improvements to the Kicker App Menu Widget, Spectacle, and more for a better user experience.

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Canonical Plans for a Fully Functional Desktop Session on RISC-V with Ubuntu 25.10

Last month, Canonical announced a significant change for RISC-V users that will drop support for most of the existing RISC-V hardware, as the company plans to raise the required RISC-V ISA profile family from RVA20 to RVA23.

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NordVPN Now Has a Graphical Linux Client and We Gave It a Look

In May, NordVPN got full scale on board with Linux when it released a Linux client. We just took it for a spin!

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GParted Live 1.7.0-8 Adds Mechanism to Reduce Random Order of Block Devices

GParted Live 1.7.0-8 open-source partition editor is now available for download with a mechanism to reduce the random order of block devices and removal of 32-bit support.

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GStreamer 1.28 Promises Vulkan H.264 Encoder, AMD HIP Plugin, and More

GStreamer 1.28 open-source multimedia framework has entered development promising many new features and improvements. Here’s what to expect.

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CachyOS July 2025 Update Finally Lets Users Choose the Shell During Installation

Starting with this release CachyOS now defaults to the Wayland session for all new KDE Plasma installations.

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The upcoming skate. from EA will be unsupported on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to anti-cheat

Popular free online shooter STRAFTAT just got a big content expansion with 4 player support

Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition has arrived and Steam Deck Verified

Wuthering Waves now Steam Deck Playable, and works on Desktop Linux with one tweak

Shark Dentist looks a bit silly, tense, gruesome and I need to play it

The Alters gets patched to replace AI generated bits, fix a Steam Deck crash and more

RimWorld – Odyssey expansion is out now along with update 1.6

Try the big demo upgrade for Demon Tides, an impressive looking open-world 3D platformer

Legion Go S gets Joystick LED controls in SteamOS, plus more Steam updates for all

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition to release August 14

Lossless Scaling Frame Gen gets a Decky Loader Steam Deck plugin but there's drama

Open source Medal of Honor: Allied Assault adds better bots and a new master server for online play

Split-screen game launcher for Linux / SteamOS adds support for multiple keyboards and mice

System76 reveal the new Adder WS laptop, their "most affordable" powerhouse

GE-Proton 10-9 released with NTSYNC and FSR4 upgrade support

Wine 10.12 brings EGL backend in the X11 driver, support for Bluetooth Low Energy services

DOGWALK is a free casual game from the Blender Studio out now

Limbo and Inside are getting delisted from GOG

Get the Borderlands series in the new Gear Up For Borderlands 4 Humble Bundle

Proton Experimental updated to fix the Epic Games Store and a few games

Build your own Capcom Summer Bundle with Fanatical

Try having a shotgun for an arm in the demo for Captain Wayne - Vacation Desperation

SuperWEIRD is a co-op mixture of automation, tower defense and adventuring

Lossless Scaling's Frame Generation for Linux gets upgraded to the latest v3.1

How to install Battle.net on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck for World of Warcraft and Starcraft

Craft-and-thrive adventure Squirreled Away tweaks the graphics for Steam Deck players

Rotate and unfold the world in the wonderful 3D platformer PaperKlay - now Steam Deck Verified

Stress-testing app OCCT switches to Vulkan by default dropping DirectX

Unrailed! gets fixed for Steam Deck and an update for controllers on Linux / macOS

Multiple games from Slitherine are free to keep for a limited time like Battlestar Galactica Deadlock

The RTS Rush Humble Bundle has some strategy games not to be missed

First-person horror platformer Blessed Burden adds Linux and Steam Deck support

Raid an abandoned Soviet R&D Institute in the single-player extraction shooter Red Light

Plant, grow and harvest in the farming roguelite deckbuilder Cropdeck - sign up the Playtest

Oblivion Remastered v1.2 gets a Beta with lots of fixes and optimisations

Try the big demo update for Dicey Bugs, a turn-based deckbuilder where you control both sides

Chilled dino ranching game Paleo Pines is crowdfunding for a big free update

Simple GOG client for Linux, Minigalaxy version 1.4 released

Incredible cheap treats in the Steam Summer Sale 2025 under £3

STEEL HUNTERS is another live service casualty as it's shutting down

A selection of upcoming games I'm excited to see release

MR FARMBOY is like Stardew Valley but with automation and optimization

Operation Octo is an upcoming frantic aquatic Tower Defense with big boss fights

Vehicle No. 4 has you build your own vehicle in this horde survival game

In Silence Waits is an upcoming modern take on classic graphical adventures

The Last of Us Part II Remastered gets a new way to play - chronologically

Steam now has a UI scaling slider and accessibility menu on desktop

AMD CPU Transient Scheduler Attacks security flaw revealed

Rhythm of Resistance is the "world's first" rhythm metroidvania

The big Diplomacy Update for X4: Foundations is now in Beta