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Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive

…Wine handles one of the most performance-sensitive operations in modern gaming. On top of that, the WoW64 architecture overhaul is finally complete, the Wayland driver has grown up a lot, and…

Mar 23, 2026 · Adam Conway

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Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Experimental Support For Descriptor Heaps

…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 s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust…

May 5, 2026

phoronix.com › news › Archinstall-4.2

Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.2 Fixes Botched Disk Encryption Security

…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…

Apr 15, 2026

phoronix.com › news › Linux-7.1-More-AMDGPU

AMDGPU Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Debug Improvements, New Hardware IP

…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 s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust…

Mar 27, 2026

phoronix.com › news › Intel-Xe-Purgeable-BO

Intel Xe Driver Improves Memory Pressure / Out-Of-Memory Behavior For vRAM With Linux 7.1

…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 s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust…

Mar 27, 2026

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AMD InterWave ISA Sound Card Driver Seeing New Linux Patches In 2026

…NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware Dirty Frag Vulnerability Made Public Early: Root Privilege…

Apr 7, 2026

phoronix.com › news › FEX-2604-Released

FEX 2604 Released With Better Memory Savings For Running x86_64 Apps/Games On ARM64

…FEX 2604 also brings a variety of performance improvements, including some optimizations to avoid jumping out of the JIT for an average of a 3.7x improvement for some operations. Games using…

Apr 10, 2026

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Intel Graphics Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Workaround For Dell XPS Panther Lake Laptop

…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 s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust…

Mar 30, 2026

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AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL Patches For Their AMDGPU Linux Driver

…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 s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust…

May 1, 2026

phoronix.com › news › KDE-1M-EUR-Investment

KDE Receiving Over 1.2 Million EUR Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund

…Many Bug Fixes Wine Wayland Driver Merges Pointer Warp Support Dirty Frag Vulnerability Made Public Early: Root Privilege On All Distributions Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware…

May 13, 2026