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KDE KWin Patches Aiming To Optimize Gaming Latency To Better Compete With Windows

…the gaming latency between Linux and Windows and in turn working to drive some improvements into KDE's KWin Wayland compositor so the latency is more competitive with the gaming experience under…

Jun 10, 2026

phoronix.com › news › CachyOS-April-2026

CachyOS Introduces New Default GUI Package Manager, Kyber For NVMe I/O Scheduler

…Desktop Installation Experience Wine Wayland Driver Merges Pointer Warp Support DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On…

Apr 26, 2026

phoronix.com › news › OpenBSD-7.9-Released

OpenBSD 7.9 Released With Support For Up To 255 x86_64 CPU Cores, WiFi 6

…The Nice KDE Desktop Installation Experience DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware IBM…

May 19, 2026

phoronix.com › news › LXQt-2.4-Released

LXQt 2.4 Released With More Wayland Fixes/Improvements

…Desktop Installation Experience Wine Wayland Driver Merges Pointer Warp Support DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On…

Apr 20, 2026

phoronix.com › news › Shotcut-26.4-Released

Shotcut 26.4 Released With Timeline Improvements, Vulkan Accelerated Speech-To-Text

…Desktop Installation Experience Wine Wayland Driver Merges Pointer Warp Support DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On…

Apr 30, 2026

phoronix.com › news › AMD-Marek-Joins-Valve

Longtime Leading AMD Linux GPU Driver Developer Now Working For Valve

…12 Comments It seems that Valve isn't done expanding their open-source Linux graphics driver team and securing top talent for enhancing the Linux GPU drivers for a better gaming experience…

May 16, 2026

phoronix.com › news › ARM64-On-s390-IBM-Z-v2

IBM Updates Linux Patches For Introducing ARM64 KVM Virtualization On s390

…The Nice KDE Desktop Installation Experience DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware IBM…

Apr 28, 2026

phoronix.com › news › VKD3D-Proton-3.0.1

VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 Brings More Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan

…The Nice KDE Desktop Installation Experience DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware IBM…

May 6, 2026

phoronix.com › news › Mesa-26.1-rc1-Released

Mesa 26.1-rc1 Released For Testing With Many New Vulkan Extensions & Optimizations

…Desktop Installation Experience Wine Wayland Driver Merges Pointer Warp Support DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On…

Apr 15, 2026

phoronix.com › news › jemalloc-5.3.1

jemalloc 5.3.1 Released With Many Improvements After Nearly Four Year Hiatus

…The Nice KDE Desktop Installation Experience DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware IBM…

Apr 14, 2026