Valve Releases Steam Survey Results For April 2025

Like clockwork with the start of the new month comes the updated Steam Survey results from Valve to reflect the latest Linux gaming hardware and software trends...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-April-2025

Ubuntu 25.10 Plans To Use sudo-rs By Default For Memory-Safe, Rust-Based sudo

With Ubuntu 25.10 Canonical is planning to make use of more Rust-written system components and so far most of that talk has been about transitioning to Rust Coreutils "uutils" in place of GNU Coreutils. It's also been firmed up today that Canonical is planning on using sudo-rs by default as a replacement to sudo...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-sudo-rs-Default

KDE Plasma Will Now Make Sure Your System Doesn't Suspend When Transferring Files

KDE Plasma 6.4 embarked on its soft feature freeze this week. Thus KDE Plasma developers are now predominantly working on bug fixing and UI polishing for this next open-source desktop release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-No-Suspend-On-Transfer-File

CachyOS, Clear Linux & Debian 13 Deliver The Best Performance On Framework Laptop 13 With AMD Strix Point

For those that may be upgrading to the new Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" SoCs and curious about hitting the best possible Linux performance, this article is for you. Here is a look at the performance of the Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 across CachyOS, Clear Linux, Debian, Fedora Workstat…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-13-amd-linux-2025

Debian 13 "Trixie" Now In Hard Freeze: MIPS64EL Demoted, RISC-V 64-bit Promoted

Debian 13.0 is now one step closer to release with Debian developers having moved Debian "Trixie" into a hard freeze state ahead of the official release this summer...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-13-Hard-Freeze

GNOME GDM Now Disables The X11/X.Org Session By Default

Merged yesterday to the GNOME Display Manager "GDM" codebase is disabling of the X11/X.Org session by default as the first step toward deprecating GNOME's X11 session support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GDM-Disable-X11-Default