Linux gaming milestone: Bazzite Linux proved capable of replacing Windows for most Steam titles, with easy setup, native driver support, and strong performance on mid-range hardware. AI laptops ...

CachyOS is the Arch Linux distro to try if you want serious speed and performance ...

Ubuntu 26.04 might be the fastest release yet. With a new kernel and GNOME 50, this raccoon can run. This is also the first Wayland-only release. Ubuntu 26.04, aka Resolute Raccoon, is just a few days ...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS features the Linux 6.8 kernel with improved syscall performance and merges low-latency kernel features into the default kernel. Canonical has released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, aka “Noble ...

Linux has long provided an outstanding operating system for a wide range of users in a variety of settings. However, high-performance computing users, who must run applications on thousands of nodes, ...

Mesa 26.1.0 is out now as the latest new-feature release of open source graphics drivers for Linux, with upgraded Vulkan ...

AMD and Intel modern processors just got big boosts in performance thanks to various implementations of AES-XTX that help in disk encryption. For example, Windows BitLocker uses AES-XTX-128. Back in ...

Microsoft and Intel touted special Windows 11 optimization on Alder Lake when it came out. However, the performance gap has shrunk and it could be completely wiped out thanks to new Linux patch.

I've been doing some work lately evaluating various Linux desktop environments on low-end hardware. I've put a lot of time into this and I've gotten some interesting results, so I thought I'd share ...

TL;DR: A PlayStation 5 running firmware up to version 4.5 can be modified to run Linux via a USB or M.2 SSD, enabling Steam-like gaming with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. While performance is comparable to native ...

Gaming laptops and Linux-based systems have made significant strides in performance and usability, yet desktop PCs remain the top choice for raw gaming power. Benchmarks show mobile hardware still ...

After a nice discussion about the virtues of the current MacOS kernel as opposed to a Linux/BSD one, I did some performance testing. Yes, some stuff is slower on the Mac. But many people have accused ...