Wine 11.13 Better Supports Input Pointers, Improved Keyboard Scancode Mapping For X11

by nouman | Jul 14, 2026 | Uncategorized

Wine 11.13 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software enabling support for running Windows games and applications on Linux…

KDE Plasma 6.7 X11 vs. Wayland Session Gaming Performance For NVIDIA On CachyOS

by nouman | Jul 14, 2026 | Uncategorized

With KDE Plasma 6.7 now having seen a few point releases to further polish this last version with X11 support ahead of Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-only, here are some NVIDIA Linux gaming benchmarks between the X11 and Wayland sessions on Plasma 6.7.2 using the popular...

Linux 7.3 Enabling Second Graphics Pipe For Modern AMD APUs

by nouman | Jul 14, 2026 | Uncategorized

AMD on Thursday sent out another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver updates to DRM-Next of new feature material ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window…

Linux DT Patches Provide Very Basic Support For Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra

by nouman | Jul 14, 2026 | Uncategorized

Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was initial support for booting Linux on the Apple M3 SoC devices. But just the barebones suppport for booting with not yet any accelerated graphics or other typical function needed for daily use of M3 Apple devices on Linux, just...

HiZ Plane Optimization Merged For Intel Vulkan Linux Driver For Some Performance Benefit

by nouman | Jul 14, 2026 | Uncategorized

After two years being on the TODO list for a possible performance optimization, the Intel open-source “ANV” Vulkan driver has now merged an HiZ plane optimization that can yield up to a few percent frame-rate improvement for Linux gaming/graphics on newer...