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Ubuntu MATE seeking maintainers as the creator looks to move on
31 Mar 2026 at 5:17 am UTC Likes: 1

What's the attraction of MATE over Cinnamon or current GNOME with classic-look extensions? Serious question, not trying to start any desktop wars.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta released with GNOME 50, Linux kernel 7.0, Mesa 26
28 Mar 2026 at 5:16 am UTC

Quoting: sarmadGnome 50 has a serious regression in graphics performance, so stay away from Ubuntu 26.04 until it's fixed.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-595-kde-gnome
It wasn't clear from the article whether it's a regression, some major improvement in KDE, or something else. Would be nice if he compared with GNOME 49 and/or some other desktop environments to give a better idea. If it *is* a regression, hopefully they can track it down quickly. The differences were pretty large in some cases.

RTS game PERIMETER: Legate Edition gets Linux ARM64 binaries and Steam Workshop support
27 Mar 2026 at 6:17 am UTC Likes: 3

Linux ARM64 binaries
Prepping for Steam Frame?

AMD announced the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor
27 Mar 2026 at 6:13 am UTC Likes: 3

Quoting: EWGAlso, that's a tonne of cache!
Fair trade for a ton of cash?

Steam Client Beta bring fixes for the new Linux SteamRT3 Beta
27 Mar 2026 at 6:01 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Liammore work on the new Linux SteamRT3 Beta
Surprisingly little, based on the changelog; I haven't poked at it much, but it seems pretty stable.

Quoting: Billli11Did you have env set in launch option?
Looks like the latest build has fixed that already.

NVIDIA driver 595.58.03 released as the big new recommended stable driver for Linux
25 Mar 2026 at 7:14 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: SakuretsuNow I just need to wait for Fedora to update their packages.
The negativo17 "fedora-multimedia" repo has it.

D7VK version 1.6 gets improved vertex processing and VSync handling
25 Mar 2026 at 5:32 am UTC

Would be nice to see this get pulled into GE-Proton. Would probably need some mechanism for whitelisting games to use it.

GNOME 50 released with much improved Parental Controls and lots more
20 Mar 2026 at 7:33 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: omer666
Quoting: shadowofwardThe last time i tried gnome i couldn't even make a short cut on the desktop has this been changed?
GNOME's design choice is not having desktop icons at all
That is certainly the default, but there's options. One of them:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2087/desktop-icons-ng-ding/ [External Link]

Performing Right Society (PRS) sues Valve over video game music
13 Mar 2026 at 6:45 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Cloversheen
Quoting: F.Ultraso the payouts is actually divided per how much your music was played.
How much of this is "in theory"?
Because that seems like an (in reality) impossible task outside planned organised events like a music festival.
"We spent half an hour trying to figure it out, which burned through all the money"