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We recently had the exciting news that Valve plans to expand SteamOS onto more devices, starting with supporting more handhelds, which caused plenty of people to be curious about the future of the popular SteamOS-like Bazzite Linux.

Mecha Comet is a handheld Linux computer with 4GB RAM, 32GB storage, extensible hardware and software, and endless customization possibilities.

The Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition is an open-source voice assistant designed for integration with Home Assistant systems. It emphasizes privacy, local processing, and compatibility with smart home hardware, offering reliable performance and flexible usability.

Window snapping GNOME extension Tiling Shell —not that you need an introduction to it by now— adds a nifty new feature in its latest update.

Linux 6.13-rc7 is out as the newest weekly release candidate for Linux 6.13 is a more exciting one than weeks prior with many of the developers and kernel testers returning from the end-of-year holiday break. Linux 6.13 remains on track for releasing as stable during the back half of January.

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Privacy and security have never been more important—or more under threat. With headlines constantly reporting data breaches, hacks, and the unchecked collection of sensitive personal information, it’s easy to feel like your digital life is always at risk.

The 222nd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on January 12th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Real-time AI subtitling is in the works for VLC, the phenomenally popular open-source media player.

A little later than I planned, but here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. Each week Prime Gaming, part of what you get with a subscription to Amazon Prime, add and remove various games you can claim to keep.

Kdenlive, the popular KDE video editor, released the first maintenance update for the 24.12 series few days ago.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Plasma 6.3 Beta, Budgie Desktop in 2025, COSMIC Desktop Alpha 5, Debian 12.9, Tails 6.11, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, and more.

Set to make the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle even more exciting is that it looks like the completed NTSYNC driver will be ready for merging. The NTSYNC driver enhances Wine / Proton (Steam Play) gaming by better matching the Windows NT synchronization primitives to allow for better gaming performance.

‘I'm a software person with a soldering iron’, he warns alongside release of Linux 6.13-rc7. Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has offered to hand-build a guitar effects pedal for one lucky kernel contributor.

If GNOME is your jam, Voyager Linux is a great take on the open source desktop.

As 2025 begins, Pine64 has provided a community update for January. This month’s updates include progress on the PineVox, ongoing developments for the PineNote, and the release of InfiniTime 1.15.

From where we sit, Google’s “giveaway” of its open source Chromium assets is basically a ruse to convince the feds that the company isn’t an intentional monopolist… or that it’s changed its ways.

Most distros default to the integrated GPU (e.g. AMD or Intel) of your computer, whether it’s a laptop or a desktop workstation, so here’s a quick tutorial on how to switch the primary GPU to NVIDIA on Wayland.

Amarok 3.2.1 music player offers a refined experience with UI fixes, MTP updates, and Qt6 enhancements.

Seeed Studio’s reComputer AI R2130-12 is an Edge AI computer with a Raspberry Pi 5 SBC with 8GB RAM and a Hailo-8 module with 26 TOPS of AI performance, suitable for video analytics, machine vision, and intelligent edge computing.