While Microsoft's Windows OS dominates the PC gaming market, the rampant success of the Steam Deck is doing sterling work at turning gamers towards Linux. The open-source operating system has been given a kernel update that contains at least one change that's potentially great news for PC gamers—enough to forgive the fact that Torvalds himself missed the deadline for the release of the update, albeit by a measure of hours.
I'm not being in the least bit critical about Torvalds skipping his usual release schedule (Sunday afternoons) and I only mention it as the man himself blames the delay on his own "pure incompetence" because "absolutely nothing last-minute happened yesterday, and I was just clearing up some unrelated things in order to be ready for the merge window. And in the process just entirely forgot to actually ever cut the release. D'oh."
