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📰 Sunshine and Moonlight let me build my own game streaming service for the cost of one GPU Gaming on Linux was always viewed as a compromise. Leaving the clutches of Windows was met by roadblocks when it came to running PC games. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/self-hosting-streaming-service-changed-the-way-play-games/ #linux

📰 Type with your voice on Linux using this Whisper-based app Your mouth can say things faster than your hands can type them, yet voice typing is rarely used as a primary input method on desktop (most of us think nothing of it on mobile). That’s despite speech-to-text being available on desktop OSes for decades, natively and through dedicated apps. It never caught on because it was inaccurate and slow (and because what you do at a keyboard is less efficient to speak, but that’s a separate point). 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/speed-of-sound-linux-voice-typing-app #linux

📰 21-year-old Polish Woman Fixed a 20-year-old Linux Bug! She wasn't hunting for bugs. She was doing something mundane when she discovered the issue and made the fix. We need more such positive stories. 🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17320855/kamila-enlightenment-e16-bug #linux

📰 New NTFS File-System Driver Submitted For Linux 7.1 Making today very exciting in Linux 7.1 merge window land was a pull request being sent out for introducing the new, modern NTFS file-system driver. Linus Torvalds has yet to comment if he's going to merge the new driver but it looks like it's ready for providing a better Linux NTFS experience over the current NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed by Paragon Software a few years ago and hasn't seen too much feature progress... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-NTFS-Driver-Submitted-Linux #linux

📰 AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Adds i686 User-Space Packages The community-based AlmaLinux OS alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) continues exploring ways to better differentiate it from upstream RHEL and other derivatives. The latest difference is AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 adding i686 user-space packages for those wanting to run on a RHEL 10 based platform but still needing x86 32-bit user-space software compatibility... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Kitten-i686-Userspace #linux

📰COSMIC desktop surprised me, because it's the Linux DE I've been waiting for Discover the Linux desktop environment that's turning heads with its modern tech, superior performance, and unmatched user experience. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/cosmic-desktop-is-the-linux-de-ive-been-waiting-for/ #linux

📰 Linux Mint Will Adopt a Longer Development Cycle Starting with Linux Mint 23 Linux Mint devs announced that they will adopt a longer development cycle starting with the upcoming Linux Mint 23 release, as well as other important changes to the distribution. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-will-adopt-a-longer-development-cycle-starting-with-linux-mint-23 #linux

📰 Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager Kamila Szewczyk prefers old software, as back then people understood something could actually be finished No one can tell software developer Kamila Szewczyk that newer is better: She just fixed a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16, the old-school Linux window manager she favors partly because, she tells us, it is actually finished software.… 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/enlightenment_e16_bug_patched/ #linux

📰 Sched QoS For Linux Aims To Improve Scheduling & Inspired In Part By Apple's QoS Classes Linux developer Qais Yousef with Google has announced the alpha release of Sched QoS as a new initiative for user-space assisted scheduling. The scheduling model in turn is based in part on Apple's quality of service classes used by iOS for classifying software as user interactive, user initiative, utility, or background tasks... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Sched-QoS-v0.1 #linux

📰 Opera GX for Linux arrives on Flathub & Snap store Installing Opera GX on Linux is now easier, with official packages available on the Canonical Snap Store and Flathub. Opera GX made its debut Linux release in March 2026, with the gaming-centric web browser porting over many of the novel features that have helped to make it a modest hit on Windows and macOS. That includes CPU, RAM and network controls provided, background sounds, themes and eye-candy like web shaders. 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/opera-gx-linux-snap-flathub #linux

📰Tributary is a GTK4 reimagining of Rhythmbox music player Ever wondered what a GTK4/libadwaita version of Linux music player Rhythmbox might look like? A new app in development imagines just that. Tributary is billed a “high-performance, Rhythmbox-style media manager written in pure Rust with GTK4 and libadwaita”. It’s more than a way to play local audio files, too. Tributary can access and stream music from Jellyfin, Plex, DAAP/iTunes shares, internet radio stations and Subsonic/Navidrome setups as... 🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/tributary-music-player-gtk4 #linux

📰 SteamVR Beta 2.16.3 brings Linux fixes for VRLink Seems SteamVR for Linux really is getting some more attention recently, after a number of fixes in the previous Beta we have a few more here.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/steamvr-beta-2-16-3-brings-linux-fixes-for-vrlink/ #linux