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AMD Radeon Linux Gaming Performance At Parity Between KDE Plasma 6.0 X11 vs. Wayland   Linux Gaming   2024-04-08
KDE/GNOME Wayland vs. X.Org Radeon Linux Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2021-12-28
Ubuntu 21.10 Radeon Gaming With KDE Plasma vs. GNOME Shell + Wayland vs. X.Org   Linux Gaming   2021-10-18
Ubuntu 21.04 - X.Org vs. Wayland Linux Gaming Performance   Linux Gaming   2021-04-29
GNOME XWayland Radeon Gaming Performance Is In Good Shape For Ubuntu 21.04   Linux Gaming   2021-02-01
X.Org vs. Wayland Browser Performance With Firefox + Chrome   Software   2020-04-10
Ubuntu 20.04 GNOME X.Org vs. Wayland Session Performance Impact For Gaming   Linux Gaming   2020-03-30
Ubuntu 19.04 Radeon Linux Gaming Performance: Popular Desktops Benchmarked, Wayland vs. X.Org   Linux Gaming   2019-04-18
KDE Plasma, GNOME Shell, Xfce, LXQt & MATE Linux Gaming Benchmarks, Including X.Org/Wayland   Linux Gaming   2018-12-30
Clear Linux Rolling Out KDE Plasma Desktop Support, Plus Some Benchmarks Against GNOME Shell   Operating Systems   2018-08-28
KDE vs. GNOME, X.Org vs. Wayland Radeon Linux Gaming Performance With Ubuntu 18.04 LTS   Linux Gaming   2018-05-12
Intel Graphics On Ubuntu: GNOME vs. KDE vs. Xfce vs. Unity vs. LXDE   Software   2018-01-21
Radeon Linux Gaming Performance: Ubuntu 17.04 vs. Ubuntu 17.10   Linux Gaming   2017-10-18
Fedora 26 vs. 27 Beta Benchmarks, Wayland vs. X.Org Gaming Tests   Operating Systems   2017-10-14
GNOME 3.26: Wayland vs. X.Org Performance - Boot Times, Power Use, Memory Use & Gaming   Software   2017-09-11
Trying Out Ubuntu 17.10 On A Laptop One Month Ahead Of Release   Operating Systems   2017-09-07
Ubuntu 17.04 Gaming Performance: Budgie vs. GNOME vs. KDE Plasma vs. MATE vs. Unity vs. Xfce   Operating Systems   2017-04-14
A Look At The Changes & New Features Of GNOME 3.24   Software   2017-03-17
RadeonSI Benchmarks On Budgie, GNOME Shell, KDE Plasma 5, LXDE, MATE, Unity, Xfce   Linux Gaming   2016-11-18
Ubuntu 16.10 Desktop Gaming Benchmarks: Unity, GNOME, Xfce, LXDE, KDE, Openbox, MATE   Operating Systems   2016-10-18
Trying Out The Modern Linux Desktops With 4 Monitors + AMD/NVIDIA Graphics   Monitors   2015-03-30
6-Way Linux Desktop 2D/3D Performance Comparison On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS   Software   2014-03-12
GNOME Shell Wayland Benchmarks From Fedora 20   Display Drivers   2013-12-26
Running The Latest GNOME Wayland Shell On Fedora 20   Software   2013-10-28
The First Wayland Benchmarks From Fedora 20 Show Great Promise   Operating Systems   2013-10-07
Ubuntu 13.04 Desktop Gaming Performance Comparison   Operating Systems   2013-01-31
Ubuntu 13.04 Desktop Comparison: 6 Desktops, 5 Driver/GPUs   Software   2012-12-13
Gallium3D LLVMpipe On Mesa 9.0   Display Drivers   2012-10-11
Tweaking KDE's KWin For Linux Gaming Performance   Software   2012-04-19
Ubuntu 12.04 Desktops Impact Performance, Power Consumption   Operating Systems   2012-04-11
Gaming/Graphics Performance On Unity, GNOME, KDE, Xfce   Software   2012-02-08
LLVMpipe Performance On AMD Bulldozer, Intel Sandy Bridge   Processors   2011-11-04
Intel SNA With Unity, Unity 2D & GNOME Shell   Display Drivers   2011-09-11
How Unity, Compiz, GNOME Shell & KWin Affect Performance   Software   2011-05-30

GNOME Shell Linux & Open-Source News

AMD User Queue Mesa Support Merged For Linux - Submitting Work Directly To The GPU   Radeon   2024-12-03
GNOME Mutter Switches To High Priority KMS Thread To Avoid Crashes   GNOME   2024-11-15
Mesa 24.2.4 Released With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes   Mesa   2024-10-03
GNOME 47 Released With Accent Colors, Improved Apps & More   GNOME   2024-09-18
GNOME Mutter 47.rc Ships Experimental Color Management Protocol   GNOME   2024-09-02
GNOME Session & GDM Can Now Be Built Without X11 Support   GNOME   2024-08-17
GNOME Shell 47 Beta Brings Hardware Encoding When Screen Recording & More   GNOME   2024-08-04
GNOME 47 Alpha Released With Accent Color Support & Wayland-Only Build Option   GNOME   2024-07-13
GNOME's Wild Week From Leadership Change To More STF-Driven Improvements   GNOME   2024-07-13
GNOME Mutter Lands Support To Transform sRGB To HDR Outputs   GNOME   2024-07-09
Fedora Workstation 41 Install Media Will Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME   Fedora   2024-07-08
GNOME Shell & Mutter See "47.alpha" Releases With Many Big Changes   GNOME   2024-06-30
GNOME Ends Out June With New Libadwaita Addition, Optional Building Without X11   GNOME   2024-06-29
GNOME 47 Can Now Be Built With X11 Support Disabled   GNOME   2024-06-27
GNOME Seeing Much Work On Their "Setup" OEM Style Installer, Key Rack & oo7   GNOME   2024-06-22
GNOME Shell Accent Color Support Merged For GNOME 47   GNOME   2024-06-20
NVIDIA Open Kernel Driver News, AMD EPYC 4004 & Linux 6.10 Made For A Fun May   Phoronix   2024-06-01
GNOME Shell & Mutter Broke Their Good Faith With Ubuntu   GNOME   2024-05-23
GNOME OS Working On A New Installer & Other Enhancements To Make It More Practical   GNOME   2024-05-18
GNOME Shell's Layout Being Improved For Smaller Displays   GNOME   2024-05-04
XZ Backdoor, Nova Driver, Linux 6.9 Features & Ubuntu 24.04 Made For An Exciting April   Phoronix   2024-05-01
GNOME Improving Integration With systemd-homed, Mockups For An OS Installer   GNOME   2024-04-06
New Gestures Code Squeezes Into GNOME 46   GNOME   2024-03-16
GNOME 46 Release Candidate Rolls Out Last Minute Fixes, VRR & Other Refinements   GNOME   2024-03-09
GNOME Developers Continue Tweaking The Shell, Tuning For Performance   GNOME   2024-03-09
GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 RC Brings Modifier-Aware Screencasting, VRR & X.Org Sync Fix   GNOME   2024-03-03
GNOME 46 Beta Released - Mutter Supporting Direct Scanout For Cropped/Scaled Surfaces   GNOME   2024-02-17
GNOME Mutter 46 Beta A Win For Gamers & VM Users, Other Last Minute Changes Too   GNOME   2024-02-11
Niri Debuts As A Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Inspired By PaperWM   Wayland   2024-01-27
GNOME 46 Alpha Released With Many Improvements   GNOME   2024-01-12
GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 Alpha Released   GNOME   2024-01-07
Nobara 39 Released - Customized Version Of Fedora Catering To Gamers/Enthusiasts   Fedora   2023-12-26
Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Continues Building Up Its Rust Infrastructure   Operating Systems   2023-12-20
Fedora Asahi Remix 39 Released For Apple Silicon Macs   Fedora   2023-12-19
GNOME Shell Lands Improved Icon & Text Scaling   GNOME   2023-12-05
Louvre Is A New C++ Library Helping To Build Wayland Compositors   Wayland   2023-11-17
GNOME 45.rc Brings GDM Wayland Multi-Seat, More libadwaita Adoption   GNOME   2023-09-09
GNOME Mutter 45 Release Candidate Brings Meta Toolkit Library, Other Last Minute Work   GNOME   2023-09-06
GNOME 45 Beta Released With Many Improvements   GNOME   2023-08-18
GNOME Shell & Mutter 45 Betas Released   GNOME   2023-08-08
GNOME 45 Alpha Released With Various Optimizations, Better Built-In Screen Recorder   GNOME   2023-07-05
GNOME 44.1 Released With Many Fixes   GNOME   2023-04-26
Intel Linux Improvements, AMD openSIL, Zen 4 3D V-Cache & Other March Highlights   Phoronix   2023-04-02
GNOME 44 Release Candidate Arrives With Many Last Minute Changes   GNOME   2023-03-12
GNOME Shell & Mutter 44 Release Candidates Bring Last Minute Changes   GNOME   2023-03-07
GNOME 44 Mutter Adds fractional_scale_v1 Wayland Support   GNOME   2023-03-05
GNOME's Mutter Lands Experimental Code For HDR Modes   GNOME   2023-03-04
GNOME Shell & Mutter Complete Their Migration Away From GTK3   GNOME   2023-03-03
GNOME Shell & Mutter 44 Beta Released With Many Changes   GNOME   2023-02-14
GNOME Is Making It Easier To Track Running Background Apps   GNOME   2023-02-08
Red Hat Planning A Hackfest To Further Advance HDR Support On The Linux Desktop   Desktop   2023-01-04
GNOME Shell & Mutter 43 Release Candidates Bring Last Minute Changes   GNOME   2022-09-04
GNOME 43 Beta Released With More GTK 4 Porting, Other Desktop Improvements   GNOME   2022-08-15
GNOME Mutter & Shell 43 Beta Bring Several Very Exciting Changes   GNOME   2022-08-11
GNOME 43 Alpha Released With Browser Improvements, More GTK 4 Porting   GNOME   2022-07-20
GNOME Shell + Mutter 43 Alpha Released   GNOME   2022-07-11
Ubuntu Developers Have An Idea For Handling The Over-Eager Systemd OOMD App Killing   Ubuntu   2022-06-23
GNOME 42 Mutter Lands Fix For Using The Old "Radeon" Graphics Driver   Radeon   2022-04-17
GNOME 42 Released With Many Improvements From Wayland To GTK4 Porting   GNOME   2022-03-23
GNOME Shell & Mutter 42.0 Tagged Following Last Minute Fixes   GNOME   2022-03-13
Steam Deck, GNOME 42 Advancements & AMD Linux Updates Excited Readers In February   Phoronix   2022-03-01
GNOME 42 Beta Released - Begins The UI / Feature / API Freeze, More Apps Ported To GTK4   GNOME   2022-02-22
Clutter Is Being Officially Retired   GNOME   2022-02-17
GNOME Shell & Mutter Prepare For GNOME 42 Beta With More Desktop Enhancements   GNOME   2022-02-14
X.Org vs. (X)Wayland Gaming Performance For NVIDIA GeForce & AMD Radeon On Ubuntu 22.04   Linux Gaming   2022-02-14
GNOME Shell 42 Lands Redesigned OSD Notifications   GNOME   2022-02-12
GNOME 42 Lands New Screenshot/Screencast UI   GNOME   2022-01-29
GNOME 42 Alpha Released With A Lot Of GTK4 Porting, Other Improvements   GNOME   2022-01-17
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Aiming For GNOME 42, Avoiding GTK4 Where Possible   GNOME   2022-01-13
GNOME Shell & Mutter Prepare For GNOME 42 Alpha With Exciting Improvements   GNOME   2022-01-12
GIMP 2.10.30 Released With Better Adobe PSD Support, Improved Portals Integration   Free Software   2021-12-21
WXRD Is A New Wayland Compositor Focused On XR/VR Use-Cases   Wayland   2021-12-20
Linux 5.17 Intel Graphics Driver Update Fixes Hangs, More Discrete vRAM Preparations   Intel   2021-12-10
GNOME 42 To Finally Allow Input Events To Happen Full-Rate   GNOME   2021-12-09
Fedora 36 Planning To Run Wayland By Default With NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver   Fedora   2021-12-07
Linux I/O Optimizations, AMD Improvements, NVIDIA GBM Excited Linux Users Last Month   Phoronix   2021-11-01
Trying Out Ubuntu's New Flutter+Curtin-Powered Desktop Installer Was Disappointing   Ubuntu   2021-10-21
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" Begins Development   Ubuntu   2021-10-18
Ubuntu 21.10 Released With GNOME 40 Desktop, Many Underlying Improvements   Ubuntu   2021-10-14
Firefox 92 vs. Chrome 94 Browser Benchmarks On Ubuntu Linux   Desktop   2021-09-26
GNOME 41 Release Candidate Arrives With Many Improvements   GNOME   2021-09-08
Ubuntu 21.10 Delivering Some Performance Gains On The Intel Core i9 11900K   Ubuntu   2021-09-08
GNOME 41 Beta Released With "Calls" SIP/VoIP Support, Wayland Improvements   GNOME   2021-08-23
Linux On The Apple M1 Can Now Boot To The GNOME Desktop But Lacking Acceleration   Apple   2021-08-23
GNOME's Magnifier Will Now Avoid Double Painting The Desktop   GNOME   2021-08-20
GNOME 41 Alpha Released With Many Desktop Changes Accumulating   GNOME   2021-07-19
GNOME 40's Shell Theme Code Is Rather Expensive But Optimization Pursued   GNOME   2021-05-25
Google Announces Some Very Interesting GSoC 2021 Projects   Google   2021-05-17
Hypocrite Commits, Rocket Lake Benchmarks, Arch's New Installer Rallied April   Phoronix   2021-05-01
Ubuntu 21.04 Released With Wayland By Default, New Dark Theme   Ubuntu   2021-04-22
openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Offering GNOME 40   SUSE   2021-04-16
The Most Exciting Open-Source Graphics Driver News From Q1'2021   Mesa   2021-03-29
GNOME 40 Released With Many Improvements   GNOME   2021-03-24
GNOME 40 Release Candidate Arrives Ahead Of Next Week's Official Debut   GNOME   2021-03-19
Standalone XWayland Makes It For Ubuntu 21.04 Along With Linux 5.11, Mesa 21.0   Ubuntu   2021-03-18
The Last Minute GNOME Shell + Mutter 40 Release Candidate Changes   GNOME   2021-03-16
GNOME 40 Beta Released With Many Improvements   GNOME   2021-02-24
GNOME Shell + Mutter 40 Beta Released With Wayland Improvements, Overview Redesign   GNOME   2021-02-23
"Fedora Kinoite" Coming For Fedora 35 As An immutable KDE Desktop Spin   Fedora   2021-02-17
The Work Ahead For Ubuntu 21.04 To Switch To Wayland By Default   Ubuntu   2021-02-09
GNOME 40 Approaches Its UI Freeze, Easy Means To Start Testing It   GNOME   2021-02-02
Linux 5.11, Pyston, Wayland & Other January Excitement   Phoronix   2021-02-01
GNOME Shell Merges Its New Horizontal Workspaces   GNOME   2021-01-30
Ubuntu 21.04 Will Try To Use Wayland By Default   Ubuntu   2021-01-28
Wayland 1.19 Released With Small Protocol Updates, Fixes   Wayland   2021-01-27
GNOME 40 Alpha Released   GNOME   2021-01-26
The State of GNOME 40's Threaded Input   GNOME   2021-01-23
Ubuntu 21.04 To Stick With GNOME 3.38 Desktop   Ubuntu   2021-01-21
GNOME Shell Merges Port Of Extensions App + Portal To GTK4   GNOME   2021-01-14
Progress On The GNOME 40 Shell Continues At Full Speed   GNOME   2021-01-07
GNOME In 2020 Saw Many Optimizations, GTK 4.0 Released, GNOME 40 In Development   GNOME   2020-12-31
The Most Popular NVIDIA Linux News + Milestones Of 2020   NVIDIA   2020-12-30
GNOME Shell UX Continues Improving For GNOME 40   GNOME   2020-12-19
Fedora Looks To Provide Standalone XWayland Package Tracking X.Org Server Git   Fedora   2020-11-30
Fedora 34 To Proceed With An AArch64 KDE Plasma Desktop Spin   Fedora   2020-11-18
Ubuntu 21.04 Is The "Hirsute Hippo", Releasing On 22 April   Ubuntu   2020-10-28
Fedora 34 Looking To Add An AArch64 KDE Plasma Desktop Spin   Fedora   2020-10-27
GNOME 3.38.1 Released With An Initial Batch Of Fixes   GNOME   2020-10-08
GNOME 40 Aims To Have A Better Extensions Experience   GNOME   2020-09-17
GNOME 3.38 Released With Many New Features, Better Performance   GNOME   2020-09-16
GNOME 3.38 RC2 Released With Last Minute Changes   GNOME   2020-09-13
The Many Mutter + Shell Improvements Coming With GNOME 3.38   GNOME   2020-09-08
Fedora 34 KDE Spin Planning Switch To Wayland   Fedora   2020-09-08
GNOME 3.38 Beta 2 Released With Many Fixes   GNOME   2020-08-26
Linux 5.10 To Bring Support For Matrox G200 Desktop Graphics Cards   Hardware   2020-08-26
GNOME 3.38 Beta Released Ahead Of Official Release Next Month   GNOME   2020-08-15
I've Been Running The AMD Ryzen 7 4700U + Ubuntu 20.04 As My Main System   AMD   2020-07-17
Linux Seeing Kernel GPU Driver Support Two Decades Later For Matrox G200 Graphics Cards   Hardware   2020-07-15
GNOME 3.36.4 Released With Faster Mutter Fix Back-Ported   GNOME   2020-07-08
GNOME Shell + Mutter 3.37.3 Are Out Roaring With Better Performance   GNOME   2020-07-08
GNOME Shell + Mutter Off To A Good Start For Summer 2020   GNOME   2020-07-02
GNOME Shell's Icon Grid Could See Almost Double The Performance   GNOME   2020-06-29
Apple Confirms Their Future Desktops + Laptops Will Use In-House CPUs   Arm   2020-06-22
GNOME Shell Continues Eyeing Improvements As It Approaches 10 Years Old   GNOME   2020-06-22
New Patches Aim To Improve Smoothness & Latency Of NVIDIA On GNOME   GNOME   2020-06-15
Ubuntu 20.10 / GNOME 3.38 Could See Better Intel Gen9 Graphics Performance   GNOME   2020-06-08
GNOME 3.37.2 Released As Another Step Towards GNOME 3.38   GNOME   2020-06-07
Experimental Linux Live OS For Showcasing Wayland Updated With Latest Desktops   Wayland   2020-05-07
GNOME 3.36.2 Released With Restoring TLS 1.0/1.1, Crash Fixes, Other Stable Updates   GNOME   2020-05-04
GNOME Adds Bit To Launcher Files For Indicating Apps That Should Run On Discrete GPUs   GNOME   2020-05-04
Linux Gaming, Qt Drama, New Hardware Kept Open-Source Enthusiasts Entertained This Month   Phoronix   2020-04-30
GNOME 3.37.1 Released As The First Step Towards GNOME 3.38   GNOME   2020-04-30
The GNOME Shell Calendar Will Stop Over-Consuming The CPU, Eating Up Battery Life   GNOME   2020-04-27
NixOS 20.03 Released Atop Linux 5.4, Various Desktop/Display Improvements   Operating Systems   2020-04-21
GNOME's UX Team Working On More 2020 Improvements To The Shell   GNOME   2020-04-15
GNOME 3.36.1 Released With First Batch Of Fixes   GNOME   2020-04-02
Shortwave Sees First Stable Release As GNOME Internet Radio Player   GNOME   2020-03-15
GNOME 3.36 Set To Be Released Today With Ongoing Wayland + Performance Improvements   GNOME   2020-03-11
GNOME Shell + Mutter 3.36 Released Following Last Minute Fixes   GNOME   2020-03-07
GNOME 3.36 RC2 Released Ahead Of The Official Desktop Update Next Week   GNOME   2020-03-06