Interested in learning more about #PipeWire? Join us at the upcoming PipeWire Hackfest, co-located with Embedded Recipes in Nice, France! Perfect chance to collaborate on that feature you've been thinking about or get help with tricky bugs! 👉 Register now: gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pip...

Valve announce a reservation system for the new Steam Controller #SteamController #Steam #Valve

Linux 7.2 To Support Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Realtek-RTL8159-Linux-7.2

Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.1-Released

D7VK 1.9 Brings Some Hefty Performance Improvements - https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-1.9-Released

KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering - https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-Faster-WL-SHM

VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 Brings More Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan - https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-Proton-3.0.1

Dell & Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dell-Lenovo-Sponsoring-LVFS

Union, KDE's new style engine, will be released with Plasma 6.7. Check out how it works and what changes it introduces to styling and theming for Plasma. quantumproductions.info/articles/202... Are you into theming? Take it for a spin and share what you build with Union! #theming #design

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Experimental Support For Descriptor Heaps - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Descriptor-Heap-Merge

Valve's Steam Controller Now Shipping - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Controller-Shipping

Prayag Jain wants you to meet Drawy, KDE's new infinite whiteboard. Ideal for training, presentations, and education, Drawy provides a simple-to-use space for you to develop and show your ideas. prayag2.github.io/posts/meet-d... #education #teaching #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

Linux 7.1 Fixes Audio For The Steam Deck OLED After Being Broken 2 Years On The Upstream Kernel - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Deck-OLED-Audio-Fix

Wine 11.8 Improves VBScript Compatibility, Finally Fixes Microsoft Golf 1999 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.8-Released

EndeavourOS "Trtion" To Ship New Desktop/WM Options, Titan Neo Brings Various Updates - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Endeavour-OS-Titan-Neo

EndeavourOS "Triton" To Ship New Desktop/WM Options, Titan Neo Brings Various Updates - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Endeavour-OS-Titan-Neo

Steam On Linux In April Pulled Back From Its Record High Marketshare - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-April-2026-Survey

Linux Support Coming For The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II: A $160 High-End Gaming Controller - https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-ROG-RAIKIRI-II-Linux

AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL Patches For Their AMDGPU Linux Driver - https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-FRL-Patches

Sovereign Tech Agency Launches New Initiative To Help Open Standards - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sovereign-Tech-Standards

KDE will be 30 years old this year and Katie updates her look! KDE is all about innovating, but Katie hadn't changed her apparel in more than 10 years. Now, sporting an orange hoodie and leggings, she's ready to spring into action and stomp on all those bugs! kde.org/anniversarie... #kdeAt30

Bazzite 44 is here 🥳 universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-44...

WayVNC 0.10 Released For Advancing This Leading VNC Server For Wayland - https://www.phoronix.com/news/WayVNC-0.10-Released

Kdenlive 26.04.0 is out, featuring contributions from more developers than ever before. This release focuses on stability, usability, and workflow improvements and comes with new features like animated transition previews and monitor mirroring. kdenlive.org/news/release... #kdenlive #kde

Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout The Next Year - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-AI-Features-2026

XWayland 24.1.11 Brings Crash Fixes - https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-24.1.11-Released

D7VK v1.8 Continues Improving Legacy Direct3D Atop The Vulkan API - https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-1.8-Released

🚀 CachyOS April 2026 Release is here! Featuring Shelly as the new GUI package manager, DNS-over-HTTPS, fingerprint sudo, installer snapshots, MangoWM + DMS, improved hardware detection, and more. cachyos.org/blog/2604-ap...

LACT 0.9 Released With UI Updates, Voltage-Frequency Curve Editor For NVIDIA - https://www.phoronix.com/news/LACT-0.9-Released

"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that... You can add System Settings options to the desktop and have easy access to their configuration page, Discover gets fancy headers for applications, KRunner adds searches from startpage.com, and much more! blogs.kde.org/2026/04/25/t...

KDE Plasma 6.7 Enables Overlay Planes For Intel Graphics, More Performance/Efficiency - https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7-Intel-Overlay

Fedora 44 Releasing Next Week - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-44-Next-Week

HDMI FRL Support Achieved With Open-Source Nouveau For NVIDIA GPUs - https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-FRL-On-Nouveau-Linux

Heroic Games Launcher gets a slick full-screen console-like mode #HeroicGamesLauncher #Linux #SteamOS #PCGaming #SteamDeck

Many USB Improvements & New Hardware Merged For Linux 7.1 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-USB

Linux May Drop Old Network Drivers Now That AI-Driven Bug Reports Are Causing A Burden - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Old-Network-AI

RADV Driver Enables Host Image Copy By Default For RDNA2 & Newer - https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Default-Host-Image-Copy

I received the amended Colorado Age Attestation bill. * Open source OS's and apps are excluded * Code repos are excluded (github/gitlab) * Containers are excluded (docker/podman) Now to work on getting the bill passed with these amendments.

Colorado Age Attestation bill gets amendments to have open source excluded #Linux #OpenSource #USA #Colorado #PCGaming

Framework Computer Announces The Framework Laptop 13 Pro - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Laptop-13-Pro

Bazzite running on the new @frame.work hardware 👨‍💻

Hear ye hear ye! Steam Medieval Fest has opened court. Interested in swords? We have you covered. Building up an empire in ye olden days? Check. Running the local tavern (pre-electricity)? All that and more here, from now til April 27. store.steampowered.com/category/med...

Playnix launch their own Steam Machine-like Linux gaming console #Playnix #Linux #PCGaming #SteamMachine

LXQt 2.4 Released With More Wayland Fixes/Improvements - https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXQt-2.4-Released

GNOME Fixes Screencasting Issue With H.264 Recordings Being ~18x Larger Than VP8 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Fixes-VA-API-H264-Rate

New Lenovo Legion Go Drivers & More Sony HID Device Support In Linux 7.1 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-HID

Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux - https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Harvested-GPUs-Linux

State of Kdenlive - from new features to community growth, check out what happened in Kdenlive this past year and what lies ahead. kdenlive.org/news/2026/st... #kdenlive #kde #floss #videoediting #news