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  Steam On Linux Dives Down To 3.05% For September Steam on Linux use in March hit an all-time high of around 5.33% marketshare. Since then it pulled back to around 4% while for September 2026 the Steam Survey results are now in and it’s clocking in just above 3%. The Steam Survey results for September that were published this evening indicate a rather steep decline of 0.85%, down to 3.05%. Meanwhile macOS is at 1.92% and Microsoft Windows at 95%. As with most months where Steam Survey indica...

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  Northstar is the free-software web browser of the Nordstjernen projec Northstar is a minimalist web browser written from scratch in C. One window, one page, one process — about 160,000 lines of original C, small enough for one person to read and audit end-to-end. It carries no upstream browser engine: no Gecko, no WebKit, no Blink. It is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later, and it runs on Linux, macOS and Windows — on Windows from the Microsoft Store. Norths...

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  Kagi Ends Orion Browser Development for Linux, Will Open-Source It Kagi has announced it will stop developing the Orion Browser for Linux and Windows, ending its direct work on these platforms. The good news is that instead of dropping the project, the company plans to open-source both versions so other developers or organizations can keep them going. For Linux users, this is a big shift for a browser that had just started to show real promise. Orion first came to Linux in early alpha at the...

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  NVIDIA's Results Of Conducting Wayland vs. X.Org Latency Testing In addition to NVIDIA announcing their Display Config Server project at XDC 2026 in Toronto, at this annual developer’s conference they also presented their findings on scientific testing of X.Org vs. Wayland latency. X.Org vs. Wayland latency across different compositors and desktop environments has been a heated topic among passionate Linux desktop enthusiasts. Some argue in favor of classic X.Org delivering the lowest lat...

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  Windows 11 is failing as an operating system Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:46 Sponsor: TuxCare Radar 02:23 Windows 11 is failing right now 05:20 What’s the job of an OS? 06:51 Updates break systems. Often. 10:53 You have to adapt to it 15:14 It’s highly intrusive 17:44 Debloating tools don’t make it good 20:19 Windows fails at being an OS 21:33 Alternatives are better, but not perfect 27:23 Windows is a sales platform, not an OS

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  Firefox Gets (too) Rounded, Flatpak for CLI & Dev tools, Ubuntu does tiling now - Linux Weekly News Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:30 Sponsor: Proton Mail 01:23 Ubuntu 26.10 beta released 03:58 Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04 upgrade now possible 05:14 Toolpak introduced as the Flatpak for dev tools 08:24 F-Droid launches full rewrite of the app 10:00 Firefox 157 adds the new Nova theme 12:33 Igalia working on Firefox for SteamOS 14:35 PostmarketOS changes name 16:11 Dev proposes that...

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  OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 Released With Linux Kernel 7.2, Plasma 6.7 OpenMandriva has published refreshed installation images for ROME, its rolling-release edition, combining the distro’s current software stack in the new 26.09 snapshot. OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 ships with Linux kernel 7.2 by default, while kernel 7.3-rc4 is also available for users who want to test the upcoming series. The distro also provides kernels in both Clang-compiled and GCC-compiled variants. On the desktop side, KDE...

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  Ubuntu 26.10 ships with a Rust-based OpenPGP - OMG! Ubuntu Surprisingly, it’s LGPL v2. The Sequoia PGP is part of the default seed, with the sq package in the main repo and officially supported. It’s said to provide a “modern, and memory-safe OpenPGP implementation”. Ubuntu isn’t making Sequoia the distribution’s default OpenPGP toolchain. It ships preinstalled, but lives alongside the standard implementation. However, the goal is to make Sequoia PGP Ubuntu’s default in the near futu...

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  Flatpak 1.18.4 Released With Fixes for Six Security Vulnerabilities Flatpak 1.18.4 has been released as a security-focused update to the popular application sandboxing and distribution framework for Linux, addressing six newly disclosed vulnerabilities along with several related hardening improvements. Among the most important fixes is CVE-2026-97024, which could allow a malicious Flatpak application during installation to overwrite arbitrary files with either an empty file or a symlink. A re...

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  NVIDIA Developing "Display Config Server" To Improve Linux/Wayland On Display Walls As an initiative from NVIDIA for improving the Linux ecosystem outside the world of AI, they have been developing Display-Config-Server as a new solution to help enhance the Linux capabilities for complex display walls. NVIDIA engineer Austin Shafer presented this morning at XDC 2026 Toronto around Linux on next-generation display walls: complex display setups appearing in TV production, theaters, an...

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  Codenotary Expands Its No-Strings-Attached Linux Security Deal - FOSS Force

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  Talk of AI in KDE sets the community ablaze Graham sounds more and more like a grifter. Is KDE slowly doing the walk towards evil? A proposal to make KDE an “AI-native” desktop has gone down like a house on fire: screams, flames, people running for safety. There may be no survivors.* Last weekend was KDE’s annual Akademy conference and it included a presentation proposing an AI-native KDE. We noted that it seemed likely to polarize the audience. It looks like this was a considerable unde...

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  AlmaLinux Puts Software Certification in the Hands of Users For the first time, there’s a way to carry out software certification on AlmaLinux, and the hardware suite has been rewritten alongside it, with test results from either certification path landing in the same public catalog. Don’t worry about the cost to validate or the uptime of the machine itself. Certifications are free, and the hardware checks no longer require you to install the distro on your setup. Validating, how? In this p...

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  Solus Linux Adopts Formal AI and LLM Contribution Policy Solus Linux has announced a new policy on using AI and large language model tools in project contributions, explaining where these tools can and cannot be used. The Solus team says developers can use AI to help with contributions, but they must take full responsibility for their work. Anyone submitting code or package changes needs to test them first. If AI was used, the commit should include an ‘Assisted-by LLM’ note. Only developers,...

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  No, KDE isn't turning into an AI desktop Timestamps: 00:00​ Intro 00:36​ Sponsor: TuxCare 01:46​ KDE’s AI policy 06:42​ Existing AI policies 10:06​ Going further on AI 12:58​ My stance on AI 17:05​ FOSS projects: yes or no to AI? 28:02​ Sponsor: Tuxedo Computer

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  Ubuntu 26.10 stops low memory from killing your desktop session - OMG! Ubuntu Ubuntu 26.10 changes how the system choose which processes are killed when memory runs low, making a rogue browser tab is less likely to punt you back to the login screen. When your system runs out of memory, the kernel’s out-of-memory (OOM) killer kicks in, terminating processes to recover some. The issue is that doesn’t always kill the right things. By default, many apps and critical desktop services share the...

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  Microsoft Office 365 on Linux, Mint develops their own apps, Steam Frame is here Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:42 Sponsor: Internxt 02:26 Microsoft 365 runs on Linux through Wine now 04:44 Mint will ship more of their own application 07:07 Ubuntu completes its move to Rust coreutils 09:37 Steam Frame revealed, up for signups 13:04 GNOME 51 released 14:54 GNOME Shell Mobile seems in a weird place 17:44 Flatpak working on app services 19:47 Improvements for the Linux kernel 21:...

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  These projects get a lot of criticism. Why, and is it deserved? These projects get a lot of criticism. Why, and is it deserved? 1 week ago 530 views Try out Proton Mail, the secure email that protects your privacy: proton.me/mail/TheLinuxEXP Grab a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux: www.tuxedocomputers.com/en SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: Get access to: a Daily Linux News show a weekly patroncast for more thoughts your name in the credits YouTube: www.youtube.com/@thelinuxe...

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  Wine 11.18 Continues Building Out Its NTOSKRNL Implementation Wine 11.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and apps on Linux, macOS, and other platforms. With Wine 11.18 a number of patches have landed for further building out its NTOSKRNL implementation support for kernel drivers. NTOSKRNL is the main kernel executable file for the Microsoft Windows operating system as the core for the kernel and executive layers....

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  GNOME 51 Released With Improved Frame Scheduling, Many App Improvements Right on schedule and in time for appearing in the likes of Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora Workstation 45, the GNOME 51 desktop is officially released. GNOME 51 debuted today with many nice improvements to Mutter for bettering the desktop responsiveness and a smoother experience with improved frame scheduling. There are also new Wayland protocols supported (such as ext-background-effect-v1) and other optimizations there, inclu...

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  He’s knows but it’s being cynical about it.

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  Ubuntu's Rustification Has a New Milestone! Coreutils Migration is Complete Oboi here we go 🙄 Ubuntu has managed to do away with GNU Core Utilities in its default stack. The last three holdouts, cp, mv and rm, have moved to uutils’ coreutils; the Rust reimplementation Canonical has been feeding into the distro since 2025. They had been held back from 26.04 LTS over flaws in the uutils versions. Everything else, from ls and cat to chmod and du, made that jump in earlier releases....

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  Has Copilot “written” that bs?

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  How to turn a Smart TV into an "almost" full-fledged Linux workstation Not for the faint of heart

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  Jason Perlow’s New NCZ-OS Scratches Several Itches in One Distro - FOSS Force What would you do if you bought some capable hardware that you really like, but there’s no Linux distribution that runs well on it? When Jason Perlow found himself in that predicament, he broke out some tools and built his own Linux distribution to fully support it. He’s calling the distro NCZ-OS, and it currently supports arm64 machines, with a specific focus on the CIX Sky1 platform, targeting Radxa Orion O6/O6N a...

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  Linux Mint reveals new calendar and ebook reader apps Two new apps are coming to Linux Mint later this year: a new calendar and eBook reader. Plus, the Ubuntu-based Linux distribution has redesigned its (overlooked) document hub, Library, to make it easier to find and manage documents scattered across you device from one place. Both new apps join the XApp Project, Linux Mint’s collection of home-grown, cross-desktop GTK apps (which now has a new website wearing the popular Claude design...

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  KaOS 2026.09 Released with Dinit, Niri, and Noctalia 5.1 KaOS 2026.09 is now available as the second stable ISO of the independently developed, Qt-focused Linux distribution, fully based on Dinit, and marks another step away from systemd and KDE Plasma. The new release uses a startup stack built around Dinit, Turnstile, and seatd for system startup, sessions, and services. Systemd components are now used mainly for udev and tmpfiles. Elogind remains only to provide Polkit integration. F...

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  Bottles' Founder Has Managed to Run Microsoft 365 on Linux Mirko Brombin, the creator of Bottles, has got Microsoft 365 running on Linux. His posts on X showcase an installation that completes on a Windows 10 or 11 Wine prefix, signs in with his existing license, and launches at least one editor. He achieved this using two things, an unreleased version of Soda and Bottles 67.4. If you remember, Soda is a Wine-based runner that facilitates easy running of Windows games and applications....

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  Israel opens embassy in Slovenia as small EU nation shifts policies Europeans at it again! LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Israel opened its first embassy in Slovenia on Wednesday, boosting relations with the small European Union nation even as ties sour with some longtime allies over its policy on illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar travelled to Ljubljana, Slovenia’s capital, for the occasion that asserts a shift in Slovenia’s policy toward Isr...

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  Noctalia 5 Wayland Desktop Shell Is Now Officially Stable