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RADV Vulkan Video Adds Low-Latency Encode/Decode Options

…13 Comments The Mesa Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver has added new low-latency Vulkan Video encode/decode options for those seeking better performance. The RadeonSI Gallium3D driver with its VA-API video…

Mar 30, 2026

WSL, WINE updates speed cross-OS app performance

…bit Linux and macOS. Two very different types of graphics driver stack both received updates this week, and although they are unrelated, both are pursuing the same goal: better graphics performance when…

Mar 20, 2026 · Liam Proven

AMD Preps Linux For CPPC HighestFreq Feature Coming With Future ACPI Spec

An improvement on the way for the AMD P-State Linux CPU frequency scaling driver and the Linux ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) code at large is supporting a new 'HighestFreq…

May 5, 2026

Linux 7.1 Kernel Starts Enabling Intel FRED, Expands AMD GPU Defaults, And Dropping Of Intel 486 CPU Support

…graphcs driver. This means better performance for these old AMD APUs, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other improvements. A multi-SDMA engine optimization for AMDGPU with Linux 7.1…

Apr 13, 2026 · Sarfraz Khan

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Hacker News · u/cayleyh · 2w ago

Ask HN: Are advances in AI going to push Linux to a micro-kernel?

This is something that has been bouncing around my head for the past couple weeks with the flood of security related news around Mythos and the number of 0days being found.Microkernels, unikernals, hardware-enforced capa…

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r/Linux_Gaming · u/Arthedu · 1w ago

A little rant about Linux gaming and NVIDIA.

You know what? Before anything else, I want to make this very clear: I've been using Linux since Fedora 40, which doesn't make me an old-school user, but it doesn't make me a complete newbie either. With that said, peopl…

r/macbookpro · u/iamhevi · 3w ago

Switched to M4 Max MBP after 15+ years of Windows - first impressions after 2 weeks

I’ve been using Windows for quite a bit of time until now. I also tried many Linux distros since I am a software engineer and I loved that, but never managed to make them work as a daily driver, mostly due to poor creati…

Linux 7.2 To Support Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet

…In Linux 7.1 Many MediaTek MT76 WiFi Driver Improvements Coming For Linux 7.1 Linux Fixes Performance Bug Affecting Qualcomm Ath11k & Ath12k WiFi Drivers New Patches Allow Building Linux IPv6-Only…

May 7, 2026

Mesa 26.1 RADV Driver Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap As Big Improvement For Steam Play

…This addresses issues uncovered with VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer and should provide more portable guarantees and more predictable performance characteristics. NVIDIA added descriptor heap support in their R595 Linux driver while now…

Apr 14, 2026

Axboe Hacking On New Linux Patches For 60% Increase To Per-Core I/O Performance

…Their AMDGPU Linux Driver Dell & Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service CachyOS Switches Python To Using Tail-Call Interpreter For 5~15% Better Performance Steam On Linux In April Pulled…

May 10, 2026

AMD & Valve Deliver Better Kaveri / Kabini APU Experience With Upcoming Linux 7.1

…After years of the AMDGPU driver having "experimental" support for GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs, over the past year it has been Timur Kristóf of the Valve Linux graphics team to…

Apr 5, 2026

Linux 7.2 To Set Default DRM Scheduler Priority To "Fair", New AIE4 Hardware In AMDXDNA

…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 Old "Potato…

May 1, 2026

Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux

Apr 19, 2026

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