Linux

The 5 Best Ways to Back Up Your Files on Ubuntu  How-To Geek

How to Get Adobe Photoshop on Linux Using Wine  How-To Geek

Google is enhancing Android 16's Linux Terminal app to support graphical Linux applications, so Android Authority decided to put it to the test by running Doom. From the report: The Terminal app first appeared in the Android 15 QPR2 beta as a developer option, and it still remains locked behind developer settings. Since its initial public release, Google pushed a few changes that fixed issues with the installation process and added a settings menu to resize the disk, forward ports, and backup the installation. However, the biggest changes the company has been working on, which include adding hardware acceleration support and a full graphical environment, have not been pushed to any public releases. Thankfully, since Google is working on this feature in the open, it's possible to simply compile a build of AOSP with these changes added in. This gives us the opportunity to trial upcoming features of the Android Linux Terminal app before a public release. To demonstrate, we fired up the Linux Terminal on a Pixel 9 Pro, tapped a new button on the top right to enter the Display activity, and then ran the 'weston' command to open up a graphical environment. (Weston is a reference implementation of a Wayland compositor, a modern display server protocol.) We also went ahead and enabled hardware acceleration beforehand as well as installed Chocolate Doom, a source port of Doom, to see if it would run. Doom did run, as you can see below. It ran well, which is no surprise considering Doom can run on literal potatoes. There wasn't any audio because an audio server isn't available yet, but audio support is something that Google is still working on.

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"NOVA-Core" Patches Propose Building New NVIDIA Driver Piece-By-Piece In The Linux Kernel  Phoronix

TLB Flushing Scalability Optimizations Merged For Linux 6.14 To Benefit AMD / Intel CPUs  Phoronix

AMD RDNA 4 GPUs to buck trend by getting near-perfect launch-day Linux support  Notebookcheck.net

AMD RDNA 4 GPUs to buck trend with get near-perfect launch-day Linux support  Notebookcheck.net

Lilbits: Apple scraps an AR glasses project, Linux app support for Android, and AYANEO's handheld gaming PC with modular controllers  Liliputing

Lilbits: Apple scraps an AR glasses project, Linux app support for Android, and AYANEO's handheld gaming PC with modular controllers  Liliputing

TouchOSC native Linux touch support arrives; demo on SteamDeck  Create Digital Music

The 8 Easiest Ways to Share Files Between Linux and Windows  How-To Geek

Linux performance overlay MangoHud 0.8.0-rc1 out now for testing with Intel GPU support and lots of improvements  GamingOnLinux

Linux performance overlay MangoHud 0.8.0-rc1 out now for testing with Intel GPU support and lots of improvements  GamingOnLinux

Free tense horror game Those Who Crawl about exploring shrinking caves added Linux / Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

Free tense horror game Those Who Crawl about exploring shrinking caves added Linux / Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

Free tense horror game Those Who Crawl about exploring shrinking caves added Linux / Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

Games to claim from Prime Gaming, Jan 31 edition round-up for SteamOS Linux and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Games to claim from Prime Gaming, Jan 31 edition round-up for SteamOS Linux and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Games to claim from Prime Gaming, Jan 31 edition round-up for SteamOS Linux and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

FUSE Hooks Up With IO_uring For Greater Performance Potential In Linux 6.14  Phoronix