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Linux Mint may slow down releases to have more development time

By Liam Dawe,
Along with receiving an unprecedented amount of donations recently, the Linux Mint team are looking at slowing down their release cycle.

KDE Linux gets performance improvements, new default apps and goes all-in on Flatpak

By Liam Dawe,
The KDE developers are working towards the first Beta release of KDE Linux, their own home-grown immutable operating system.
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CachyOS founder explains why they didn't join the new Open Gaming Collective (OGC)

By Liam Dawe,
The Open Gaming Collective (OGC) was an interesting announcement recently from a few bigger names, but the CachyOS team opted out of it and now we know why.

GPD release their own statement on the confusion with Bazzite Linux support

By Liam Dawe, [updated]
In the continuing saga of GPD versus Bazzite Linux, the GPD team have now posted their own statement on what happened.

Open Gaming Collective (OGC) formed to push Linux gaming even further

By Liam Dawe,
An exciting new announcement is the formation of the Open Gaming Collective, a collaborative organisation between many names in the Linux sphere.

Bazzite Linux founder releases statement asking GPD to cease using their name

By Liam Dawe,
The story of GPD and Bazzite Linux continues, with the founder of Bazzite releasing a fresh statement making it clear there's nothing happening between them.

The popular Arch-based distro CachyOS gets a new release with a significantly reworked installer

By Liam Dawe,
The CachyOS madness hasn't quite caught on for me, but I definitely want to take a good look at what all the fuss is about soon - and there's a big new release.

GPD claim the WIN 5 is getting an official Bazzite Linux adaptation but the Bazzite team say otherwise

By Liam Dawe,
GPD are being weird again - making a claim that the GPD WIN 5 is getting an "official" adaptation with Bazzite Linux but the Bazzite team say otherwise.

EndeavourOS Linux gets an upgraded release with Ganymede Neo

By Liam Dawe,
After a major update released for EndeavourOS late last year, a new refresh is out with Ganymede Neo with a big tweak for NVIDIA GPU owners.

Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" is out now and supported until 2029

By Liam Dawe,
The popular Linux Mint has a big new stable version available with Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" supported up until 2029 as it's a long-term support release.

The best Linux distributions for gaming in 2026

By Liam Dawe,
Here is your up to date list of what distro you should be picking if you want to start gaming on Linux in 2026. The latest edition of you telling me I'm wrong.

Bazzite Linux gets a spring cleaning update to end 2025

By Liam Dawe,
The very popular gaming-focused Bazzite Linux has a fresh release out that ended 2025 with a little spring cleaning, and I've finally joined the ranks.

Linux Mint 22.3 gets a Beta release with lots of new features

By Liam Dawe,
Linux Mint 22.3 is set to be the next long-term supported release and a Beta is now here you can test, with a surprising amount of new features.

Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with the COSMIC Desktop Environment is out now

By Liam Dawe,
System76 have today finally released Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with the newly launched COSMIC Desktop Environment.

Arch-based distro EndeavourOS gets a new Ganymede release

By Liam Dawe,
Easily one of the best ways to try out a form of Arch Linux, the popular EndeavourOS has a new release with Ganymede out now.

Fedora proposal put forward to improve "production stability and incident management"

By Liam Dawe,
After a string of annoying incidents after updates causing stability problems on Fedora, there's a new proposal put forward to help improve things.

Linux Mint to get an upgraded System Information tool and a spruced up system menu

By Liam Dawe,
A new blog post is out from the Linux Mint team going over some recent work, with the newer Cinnamon Menu coming along nicely and a new System Information tool.

Ubuntu getting optimisations for modern processors with architecture variants

By Liam Dawe,
Canonical announced they're working on architecture variants of Ubuntu, to hopefully result in better optimisation and performance on modern processors.

Bazzite using Fedora 43 is out now with full Xbox Ally / Xbox Ally X support

By Liam Dawe,
Bazzite Linux has been upgraded with the Fedora 43 release, and it comes with many handheld gaming enhancements for those wanting to break away from Windows.

Fedora Linux 43 has officially arrived

By Liam Dawe,
Fedora Linux 43 has arrived for Fedora Workstation, Fedora KDE and other assorted flavours that use Fedora have also seen various upgrades.
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