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Steam On Linux Usage Spikes, Larger Market Share Than Apple macOS
The Steam Survey results for July 2023 were just published and it points to a large and unexpected jump in the Linux gaming marketshare. According to these new numbers from Valve, the Linux customer base is up to 1.96%, or a 0.52% jump over June! That’s a huge jump with normally just moving 0.1% or… Read more
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Ubuntu 23.1 Will Use Linux 6.5 Kernel
Planning to upgrade or install Ubuntu 23.10 when it’s released in the autumn? If so, you can look forward to an experience powered by the Linux 6.5 kernel. While the Linux 6.5 kernel is yet to be released yet, the stars (or rather the release calendars) have aligned to make its inclusion in the “Mantic… Read more
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Blender Developers get faster AMD Linux: 251 To 9 Seconds Speed-Up
Two weeks ago a bug report was opened for Mesa that when using Radeon RX 7900 XT or Radeon Pro WX 9100 graphics, Blender’s Eevee shader node trees are unusably slow. A fix has now been merged in reducing that shader compilation time from around 251 seconds to now getting done in just about 9… Read more
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Inkscape 1.3 Released As Latest Open-Source Software To Compete With Adobe Illustrator
Inkscape 1.3 is now available as the newest feature release of this open-source software focused on being a vector graphics editor that can rival the likes of Adobe Illustrator. Inkscape 1.3 delivers on better performance, improvements to existing features, and several new features. Among the new changes in Inkscape 1.3 are the Shape Builder tool… Read more
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Running Multiple Linux Commands at once
These days, the majority of my time spent on Linux is via GUI applications. That doesn’t mean I can completely avoid the command line. Why? Partially because I also work with servers. But, every so often, I’ll opt to use the command line on the desktop. For instance, when I need to run upgrades on… Read more
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RISC-V Is Now An Official Debian Architecture
As time goes on, more and more computer manufacturers are moving towards the ARM architecture and away from the bloated and outdated x86 instruction set. Apple is the most prominent producer to take this step, but plenty others are using ARM for its flexibility and efficiency. The only problem with ARM is that it’s licensed,… Read more
