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I'm and enthusiast of Linux on Laptops and Secure Boot related stuff. Playing exclusively on Linux since 2013. Played on Wine on dates that trace back to 2008(Diablo 2, Lineage 2...). A troubleshooter that used to work with strace and it is now working with Kubernetes...

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You may want to avoid NVIDIA driver 550 if you're on a laptop

By nwildner, Jun 10

If you are a laptop user, you may want to avoid driver version 550 because there is a megathread on the NVIDIA forum where users are reporting that this version is making their distributions randomly crash.

Looks like GPU switching tool optimus-manager isn't abandoned yet

By nwildner, Jun 9

As we have previously reported here, optimus-manager, the GPU manager for laptop setups was going silent because the main developer didn't have the time or resources to keep that project running on Github. Looks like it's coming back!

Free & open source RPG 'Veloren' update compilation - weeks 229 to 232

By nwildner, May 27

This is a compilation series from the last updates provided at the Veloren blog, the free and open source voxel action-adventure RPG.

Former Nouveau driver lead joins NVIDIA and sent a massive patch set

By nwildner, Apr 18

Ben Skeggs, former Nouveau lead developer and former Red Hat employee has joined NVIDIA and appears to still be working on the open source drivers.

SDL 3 will prefer Wayland Over X11, if certain protocols are available

By nwildner, Mar 28

Less than a week ago, SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) developers restarted the discussion regarding whether Wayland should be configured as the preferred over X11, but now Wayland will be sticking if certain Wayland protocols are available.

Nova, a Rust-based Linux driver for NVIDIA GPUs announced

By nwildner, Mar 26

Danilo Krummrich who is a Red Hat display driver team Software Engineer, announced the Nova project, a Rust-based GSP-only driver for Nvidia GPUs.

Retro-gaming Linux distribution Batocera 39 released

By nwildner, Mar 8

Batocera.linux is an open-source and completely free retro-gaming distribution, and a new release is now available.

Fedora Workstation 41 will drop GNOME X.Org session as fallback option

By nwildner, Mar 7

While defaulting to Wayland since version 25 of Fedora Workstation (GNOME), and Fedora version 34 for the KDE Plasma Desktop spin, this Linux distribution intends to completely ditch X.Org session as fallback for GNOME on release 41.

Nintendo DS emulator DraStic became free of charge after Yuzu case

By nwildner, Mar 7

After Yuzu emulator owners agreed to pay Nintendo $2.4 million USD and EmuDeck also announcing Yuzu and Citra removal right after the court settlement became available on the internet, Nintendo DS emulator DraStic is now free.

AMDGPU driver for Linux 6.7 enforces lower power limits from vBIOS

By nwildner, Mar 5

Starting with Linux kernel 6.7, users of the AMDGPU driver are not be able to set power limits below the recommended values advised by the AMD Engineering team on the hardware itself. The new low-power limits are intentionally enforced and set based on each card vBIOS specification.