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Linux is losing ground on Steam as Windows 11 continues its rise among PC gamers — is Microsoft repairing its reputation?

Steam's May 2026 Hardware Survey shows Windows 11 increasing its market share among gamers while Linux continues to decline after reaching a recent peak. The latest figures highlight Windows' continued dominance on Steam and raise questions about whether Linux can maintain its recent momentum.

Windows Central

I got my hands on Framework's 'MacBook Pro for Linux users' and its tagline isn't just marketing hyperbole

The Framework 13 Pro is a sleek, stylish machine lazer-focused on software devs sick of MacOS.

PC Gamer

Multiple Linux distros hit by major 'CIFSwitch' flaw that gives attackers root access

If you're using Linux, make sure you patch up and disable unnecessary file sharing features.

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Linux backlash leads to California law change on age verification — with the original lawmaker forced to make a humbling step back

OS vendors have been mandated to request use age brackets since late 2025, but Linux systems could be exempt if this amendment bill is enforced.

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California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law

California lawmakers introduced a new amendment that could exempt most Linux distributions from the state’s upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act after privacy backlash and concerns that the law would force open-source operating systems to become age-verification platforms.

Tom’s Hardware

“Honestly? We’re genuinely terrified” — Flipper Zero creators reveal massive new Flipper One swiss-army knife PC and ask community for help

The Flipper One is much more than just an incremental upgrade to the Flipper Zero, offering a Linux kernel, a fully open source platform, and greater modularity than its predecessor.

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New Flipper One computing multitool bristles with network, GPIO, and M.2 connectivity — new keychain device is also a fully open Arm Linux computer

The creators of the Flipper Zero “portable multi-tool device for geeks” have announced the Flipper One.

Tom’s Hardware

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Linus Torvalds says flood of duplicate AI-generated vulnerability reports have made Linux security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' — private list 'a waste of time for everybody involved' in switch to new public system

"AI detected bugs are pretty much by definition not secret, and treating them on some private list is a waste of time for everybody involved."

Tom’s Hardware

Discord's latest 'year of the Linux desktop' update is a game-changer for Steam Deck, but fans are concerned about its age verification plans

Discord's latest efforts to improve the user experience, particularly on Linux, are certainly noteworthy, but its age-verification plans remain a concern.

TechRadar

'The continued flood of AI reports has basically made the security list almost entirely unmanageable': Linus Torvalds laments how people are wasting the Linux team's time with LLMs

Linux's creator isn't against the use of AI tools, he's just tired of folks using them and then doing nothing with what they've discovered

PC Gamer

'This game is extremely broken': The dev of VKD3D-Proton, software for running Direct3D 12 games on Linux, isn't enjoying Forza Horizon 6 very much

Less hot snakes, more hot wheels, please Xbox. Sorry, XBOX.

PC Gamer

Another major Linux security issue uncovered - new Fragnesia flaw allows attackers to run malicious code as root

The flaw is in the same family as Dirty Frag and allows privilege escalation at kernel level.

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I've spent 30 years with Microsoft but Linux and Pop! OS might have converted me

Linux has saved me from the grubby claws of Windows hell, but it comes with a catch.

PC Gamer

'I have zero evidence in front of me that users are being driven away from Fedora because of AI': Ubuntu and Fedora confirmed to both get AI support soon

Fedora and Ubuntu have set out plans to run small AI models locally, and this has caused a mixed reaction from the open source community.

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Tom’s Hardware

New Linux StarFighter laptop family debuts starting at $1,878 — Star Labs Systems' laptops arrive with spacious RAM, several options

The StarFighter Linux laptop is finally available for purchase on the website, after months of delays. The startup behind this model is a small team based in rural England and runs out of a barn located some 30 miles southeast of London.

PC Gamer

'A single 732-byte Python script can be used to obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017': Time to update your kernel

Batten down the distros.

PC Gamer

Linux century marches on as Discord brings updater parity with Windows and easy installs for more distros

There are dozens of us.

Tom’s Hardware

CISA flags actively exploited ‘Copy Fail’ Linux kernel flaw enabling root takeover across major distros — unpatched systems may remain vulnerable to attack

CISA warns of the actively exploited “Copy Fail” Linux flaw (CVE-2026-31431), enabling root access, with a public exploit released before patches were ready.

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'An hour of scan time is all it took': "Copy Fail" flaw impacts all Linux kernels released since 2017, so patch now or face the consequences

Linux users should update their servers now, or face possible attack.

PC Gamer

Canonical, the company that makes Ubuntu Linux, says its web infrastructure is under a 'sustained, cross-border attack'

A whole range of Ubuntu sites and services seem to be affected.

Tom’s Hardware

Linux exploit instantly grants administrator access on most distributions since 2017 — cryptography optimization snafu grants root privileges to local users

Zero-day exploit instantly grants administrator access on most Linux distributions since 2017

Tom’s Hardware

Linux kernel's ‘second-in-command’ uses local AI bot to hunt bugs, powered by 'clanker' system with AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ — Framework Desktop has resulted in close to two dozen patches

Greg Kroah-Hartman posted a photo to Mastodon this weekend showing the hardware behind his AI-assisted bug-finding tool.

Windows Central

This tool brings Linux to Windows 95 without using virtualization

WSL9X runs a modern Linux kernel inside Windows 95, 98, and ME without virtualization, letting classic Windows systems run Linux tools next to native apps.

Tom’s Hardware

You can now run Linux on your ancient Windows 95 desktop with a new tool — very old Windows PCs, back to Intel 486, can cooperatively run very modern Linux kernels with WSL9x

WSL9x enables users to run the most modern Linux kernels in Microsoft OSes as old as Windows 95.

Tom’s Hardware

Linux may be ending support for older network drivers due to influx of false AI-generated bug reports — maintenance has become too burdensome for old largely-unused systems

Linux kernel developers are reviewing a proposal to remove obsolete ISA and PCMCIA-era Ethernet drivers from the mainline kernel, citing rising maintenance burden from AI-driven bug reports and fuzzing. The change would cut around 27,000 lines of legacy code

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