G. Vicente

Software Developer/IT Architect, MBA-Big Data & Analytics on @FGV_EAESP Scientist/Engineer - Computer Scientist on @puc_sp.
I love #Linux, #OpenSource, #Coding

[Phoronix @phoronix]

Wine 11.11 Released With Wayland Improvements

And even a fix for Microsoft Money 2000....

https://t.co/bIKgh4Vklb

[Techjunkie Aman @Techjunkie_Aman]

Linux gaming just got another major upgrade.

CachyOS Proton is a custom Proton build designed to push Windows games even further on Linux.

The latest release adds:

• Automatic HDR detection
• Wayland improvements
• Better Vulkan compatibility
• DXVK-Sarek support
• FSR4 enhancements
• DLSS integration improvements
• Lower latency options
• Multiple game-specific fixes

Supported on:

• Steam Deck
• Linux gaming PCs
• AMD GPUs
• NVIDIA GPUs
• Wayland desktops
• X11 desktops

Notable fixes include:

• Mega Man Legacy Collection 2
• Trails in the Sky FC
• Unravel
• Unravel Two

The coolest feature?

It can automatically detect older GPUs that don't support Vulkan 1.3 and switch to a more compatible rendering path.

Linux gaming has come a long way from "hopefully it launches."

Do you use standard Proton or a custom build like GE-Proton or Proton-CachyOS?

[Phoronix @phoronix]

Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware

https://t.co/YQsSBaS5oN

[GloriousEggroll @GloriousEggroll]

Just another reminder I'm still working on the GE-Proton 11 video playback rework. It's a huge task I've been working on non-stop since March. I've squashed all of the major bugs and am currently just cleaning up regressions that came with the 10->11 rebase of this video rework

[Phoronix @phoronix]

Wayland Protocols 1.49 Released With Improved Multi-GPU Support, Windows BT.2100

https://t.co/1hNt86Jn1U

[Phoronix @phoronix]

GNOME 51 Retires Legacy NVIDIA Driver Support With Removing EGLStreams

https://t.co/BGg62AtQoe

[VideoCardz.com @VideoCardz]

SteamOS beta adds early support for Intel handhelds

https://t.co/oxehqsDHDe

[Phoronix @phoronix]

VKD3D-Proton Merges @VulkanAPI Descriptor Heap Support

Woohoo! Big win for Steam Play!

https://t.co/oOaRVRARQk

[Phoronix @phoronix]

Exciting things happening on Linux. Details next week.

[TechPowerUp @TechPowerUp]

NVIDIA Reflex 2 and AMD Anti-Lag 2 Can Now Run on Any GPU Under Linux https://t.co/UUktRQEVEr

[Phoronix @phoronix]

SDL Library Adds Support For The New Steam Controller Without Depending On Steam

Awesome win for those wanting to use the Steam Controller without Steam client!

https://t.co/wfpdcSO6YZ

[VideoCardz.com @VideoCardz]

Valve customs record suggest first large shipment of 2026 Steam Controller
https://t.co/UxmbYG4J4W

[9to5Linux @9to5linux]

#NVIDIA 595 #Linux Graphics Driver Released as Latest Production Branch Version, Here's What's New https://t.co/IMbSAbKaDY

#OpenSource #gaming

[It's FOSS @Itsfoss]

Relatable, Arch users? 🤣

[Phoronix @phoronix]

Today @FFmpeg 8.1 Released With Experimental xHE-AAC MPS212, More @VulkanAPI Acceleration

https://t.co/U98usJJZZT

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You can’t buy Linux. It’s free. Always has been. So IBM did the next best thing: it spent $34 billion buying Red Hat, a company whose entire business is selling tech support for this free software. Largest software acquisition in history. For support contracts on something anyone can download for $0.

The “side project” story, while true, is maybe 5% of what actually happened since.

Linux itself is managed by a nonprofit, the Linux Foundation. That nonprofit pulled in $311 million last year. Only $8.4 million of that (2.6%) actually went to Linux itself. The rest of the funds support ~1,500 other open source projects, events, and training. Every Fortune 100 tech company is a paying member.

And here’s who actually builds this “free” software now: 84% of the code changes to Linux in 2025 come from developers on corporate payroll. Intel is the biggest contributor. Google is second. Huawei, Oracle, AMD, and Meta all have engineers writing Linux code full-time. Over 1,780 companies pay people to work on it. The solo genius in a dorm room stopped being the real story around 1998.

The wildest part: over 65% of Microsoft’s cloud computers run Linux. Microsoft, the company whose former CEO once called Linux “a cancer,” now runs more Linux than Windows on its own servers. Amazon and Google’s clouds are even higher, both above 90%.

A 2024 Harvard Business School study attempted to calculate how much companies would spend if all free, open-source software vanished tomorrow. The answer: $8.8 trillion more per year. 3.5x what they currently spend. And that number didn’t even include operating systems like Linux.

Linus Torvalds still personally approves every major code change. He makes about $1.5 million a year. He also built Git, the tool that powers GitHub (which Microsoft bought for $7.5 billion). Two pieces of software the entire tech industry runs on, same guy.

Linux started as 10,239 lines of code. It’s now over 40 million. Every one of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers runs it. 96% of the top million websites sit on it. Every Android phone has Linux inside it. That’s roughly 3 billion devices in people’s pockets.

It’s the largest collaborative engineering project in human history, free to use, funded by the same corporations it was supposed to replace.

[CachyOS @CachyOS]

CachyOS just took the #1 spot on ProtonDB. Arch Linux held it since 2021 🚀

Thank you all for your support!

[PC Gamer @pcgamer]

Why switch to Linux now? #pcgamer #pcgaming #linux #linuxgaming #windows

[VideoCardz.com @VideoCardz]

NVIDIA releases 595.76 hotfix driver addressing OC voltage issues on RTX GPUs
https://t.co/w3HBZdpq9m

[Phoronix @phoronix]

GNOME Mutter 50.rc Released With Better NVIDIA Performance, SDR-Native & Better HDR

https://t.co/diLBkB8uBF