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If you love your more casual exploration and building games, Shipolis seems like a neat one inspired by the Anno series. The developer mentioned it’s made with the open source Godot and it will have full Native Linux support, with a demo already available. Always nice to see more developers using Godot to get away…
Tuxedo Computers have announced plans to officially drop Ubuntu Linux for their own Tuxedo OS, as they will be moving directly to Debian. Their blog post goes over their reasoning which many Linux users will resonate with – they want to take back control of what they’re shipping on their own hardware. They’re not happy…
DistroWatch.com: LazyLinux Last Update: 2026-07-12 20:01 UTC LazyLinux is a Void-based desktop Linux distribution with Xfce as the preferred desktop and a vast collection of pre-installed software. It intends to be user-friendly and usable right after installation. The distribution ships with many popular productivity and multimedia applications, such as Brave browser, Thunderbird email client, LibreOffice…
The next release of the Cinnamon desktop and Linux Mint is finally ready for Wayland – with it no longer considered to be experimental. In their June round-up blog post, developer lead Clement Lefebvre mentioned that for the next version of Linux Mint due around Christmas time that “We worked really hard on Wayland and…
Wine 11.13 is the latest biweekly development release for the Windows compatibility layer – bringing new features and various fixes. We also just recently had the Proton 11 stable release built with Wine 11. The highlights for Wine 11.13 are: Better support for input pointers. Improved keyboard scancode mapping on X11. …
DistroWatch.com: TitalcruiseOS Last Update: 2026-06-04 23:08 UTC TitalcruiseOS is a desktop Linux distribution based on Debian’s “Stable” branch and featuring a heavily customised GNOME desktop. It aims to deliver low-latency performance and comprehensive software compatibility for system administrators, developers and power users alike. Its GNOME desktop is enhanced with a curated selection of native extensions…
Another constantly updated game that broke with newer Proton recently is Marvel Rivals, but now thanks to Valve it should work again with Proton Hotfix. A similar thing happened recently with Diablo IV which Valve needed to fix too. Valve don’t generally give out public updates on Proton Hotfix, but we can see that Marvel…
DistroWatch.com: nakeDeb Last Update: 2026-07-11 23:20 UTC nakeDeb is a minimalist desktop Linux distribution based on Debian’s “Stable” branch and designed for more advanced Linux users. By default it uses the Fluxbox window manager, although an alternative session with i3 is also available. The distribution provides a simple text-mode system installer and custom repositories with…
Valve released another Steam Beta – this time with a few bug fixes but also now actually showing Steam Machine Verified information in the interface. They’re a bit late rolling this out but good to see it arrive. From the Steam Deck Beta changelog (which Valve should really rename now…since it covers multiple systems): …
DistroWatch.com: LinuxCNC Last Update: 2026-06-28 16:05 UTC LinuxCNC is a Debian-based Linux distribution designed to control computer numerical control (CNC) machines. It can drive milling machines, lathe machines, 3D printers, laser cutters, plasma cutters, robot arms, hexapods and more. It is compatible with many popular machine control hardware interfaces and it supports rigid tapping, cutter…
