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GOG's new owner brands Windows as poor quality while he ponders Linux support — "I'm not surprised that people gravitate outside of the Windows ecosystem."

GOG’s new owner, Michał Kiciński, has criticised Windows as poor-quality software, as the DRM-free PC game store begins exploring stronger Linux support for the future.

Windows Central

An absolute madman has recreated the Windows 8 UI—for Linux

Windows 8? In 2026? These really might be the end times.

PC Gamer

Zorin OS 18 has reached 2 million downloads, with 1M+ Windows defections fueling one of Linux’s biggest growth stories in 2026

Zorin OS 18 has passed 2 million downloads in under three months, with around 75% coming from Windows users as Windows 10 reaches end of life and hardware limits push more people toward Linux.

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Linux researcher and developer says 'there are bugs in your kernel right now that won't be found for years. I know because I analyzed 125,183 of them'

What's bug's scarier than a spider? That's right, a Linux bug 😱

PC Gamer

Sick of Microslop? New Linux distro could win over Windows 11 haters

Does the future belong to Linux? It's way too early to call that, but the new Loss32 project should make Microsoft sit up and take notice.

TechRadar

RAM prices are terrifying, so Nvidia wants to turn your Amazon Fire TV stick into a gaming PC

Linux PCs and Fire TV sticks get Nvidia GeForce Now native support, serving as a great gaming PC alternative in a rough market.

TechRadar

Chinese semiconductor outfit has Linux MPP repository on Github disabled after a DMCA takedown request — FFmpeg team accuses it of using libavcodec code without attribution

Leading Chinese fabless semiconductor company Rockchip has had one of its major software repositories taken down in response to a DMCA takedown notice.

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Windows 11 surges among PC gamers on Steam as Linux stalls — the open-source OS mildly loses momentum after a brief uptick

Steam’s December 2025 survey shows Windows 11 accelerating sharply, while Linux’s recent growth stalls, marking a noticeable shift after several months of gradual Linux gains.

Windows Central

I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop

Now if you don't mind I'm going to delete the root folder and see what happens.

PC Gamer

Linux's contemporary filesystem mount API went without documentation for six years — latest man-page package finally adds content for 2019 code

Linux's contemporary filesystem mount API has been missing documentation since 2019,

Tom’s Hardware

Recovered Unix v4 tape quickly yields a usable operating system — nostalgia addicts can now boot up Unix v4 in a browser window

Nostalgia addicts can now get their Unix v4 fix in a browser

Tom’s Hardware

2025 might have been the year for Linux gaming, but there's still a way to go until I switch from Windows

Windows, sadly, still offers some things that Linux cannot.

PC Gamer

Legacy AMD GPUs receive 30% performance boost in Linux with new drivers — latest kernel update finally drops obsolete Radeon graphics driver after more than two decades

Linux 6.19 drops legacy Radeon DRM driver for the modern AMDGPU kernel driver, ushering performance uplifts up to 30% for AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 graphics cards.

Tom’s Hardware

Surfshark expands dedicated IP to Linux in its latest desktop update

Surfshark has added dedicated IP support to its Linux GUI app, extending a feature it’s been focusing on since 2023.

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Want to back up your iPhone securely without paying the Apple tax? There’s a hack for that, but it isn’t for everyone... yet

Want to back up an iPhone locally without iCloud fees? A small Linux-powered device offers encrypted USB backups but you've got to put in the work to set it up.

Tom’s Hardware

53 years later, bus standard launched by HP in 1972 gets stable Linux driver — General Purpose Interface Bus has blistering 8 MB/s of bandwidth

HP's GBIP interface will finally receive stable drivers for Linux (6.19 kernel release), 53 years after its debut.

Tom’s Hardware

Tiny Core Linux 16.2 still fits a proper Linux desktop into a 23MB download — but it has grown 1MB since the last time we looked at it

Tiny Core Linux is a true example of just how small a functional desktop operating system can be, even in 2025.

Tom’s Hardware

GeForce 590 driver branch is the first without feature support for GTX 9- and 10-series GPUs — Linux release marks the end of the line for graphics cards that defined an era

Nvidia 590 drivers cut support for GTX 900- and 10-series

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Microsoft finds an unlikely ally — Linux developer defends Windows against BSoD jokes

Linux developer Linus Torvalds recently defended Microsoft over Windows BSoD errors, claiming they can be traced back to unreliable hardware rather than software bugs.

Tom’s Hardware

Gaming-first Linux distro delivers a petabyte of ISOs in one month as users avoid forced updates to Windows 11 — Bazzite distro is another safe haven for Win 10 refugees

Bazzite devs boast of 'over 1 petabyte of Bazzite ISOs' downloaded in last month.

Windows Central

Windows 10 retirement pushes 780,000 users to Linux as Zorin OS Hits 1M downloads — but Microsoft still wants to evolve Windows 11 into an agentic AI OS

Zorin, a Linux-based operating system designed to rival macOS and Windows, recently surpassed one million downloads following Microsoft's decision to pull the plug on Windows 10 on October 14, 2025.

Tom’s Hardware

In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks

The Windows-like Linux distribution claims over a million downloads in the past month for its latest build, most of which came from Windows users.

Tom’s Hardware

Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux laptop cancelled due to performance concerns — Linux PC maker says Qualcomm CPU is ‘less suitable for Linux than expected’

Tuxedo Computers, which builds Linux-powered desktops and laptops, has stopped work on Linux for the Snapdragon X1E, saying that the chip is less suitable for the open-source OS than expected.

Windows Central

TUXEDO scraps its Linux-based Snapdragon X Elite laptop — says the SoC "proved to be less suitable for Linux than expected"

Linux PC maker TUXEDO has scrapped plans to launch a Snapdragon X Elite-powered notebook, citing issues with development and support with Qualcomm's chip.

PC Gamer

Rust developer has 'no plans' for Linux or Proton support, says games that support them are 'not serious about anti-cheat'

So much for my Steam Machine plans.

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