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Valve and Collabora Announce Official Arch Linux ARM64 Port for Steam Frame

Steam Frame uses an ARM64 processor, so Collabora, in collaboration with Valve, has been developing Holo Core as a full AArch64 port of Arch Linux intended as the base for the operating system that will power the gaming VR headset. Since Arch Linux has no official ARM64 support, Collabora had to build new tooling and CI infrastructure from scratch.

DXVK 3.0.2 Brings Fixes for Dying Light: The Beast, Halo CE, Overwatch, and More

Coming two weeks after DXVK 3.0.1, the DXVK 3.0.2 release is here to work around a performance regression in some video games that create a new DXGI factory every single frame, such as Dying Light: The Beast with FSR enabled, but other D3D12 games could be affected as well.

Wayland 1.26 Is Now Available for Download with New Features and Improvements

Highlights of Wayland 1.26 include a new wl_pointer.warp event to notify a new pointer position without an end-user-initiated motion event, a new wl_fixes.ack_global_remove request to address races related to global remove events, and a new wl_display_remove_socket_fd() function to remove sockets that were previously added via the wl_display_add_socket_fd() function.

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HackRF Pro SDR covers 100kHz to 6GHz with FPGA-based processing

The HackRF Pro follows the same general architecture as its predecessor but introduces several RF, processing, timing, and connectivity improvements. These include a flatter frequency response, removal of the characteristic center-frequency DC spike, an onboard temperature-compensated crystal oscillator, additional memory, RF shielding, and a USB Type-C connector.

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The gaming Linux distro everyone's switching to just made sudo way more secure with your fingerprint

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Apr 27, 2026,
updated Apr 28, 2026

Quoting: The gaming Linux distro everyone's switching to just made sudo way more secure with your fingerprint —

2026 has been a great year for CachyOS, and we're only a quarter of the way in. Earlier in the year, we saw CachyOS dethrone Arch Linux as the top distro for reports in ProtonDB, which ended a year-long reign and showed a pattern of people checking out CachyOS for their gaming needs.

Now, the April version of CachyOS has been released, and one of its key features is better sudo protection. Now, if you really want to stop people from running superuser commands on your system, you can lock it behind a fingerprint scanner for an extra layer of security.

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GamingOnLinux ☛ CachyOS April 2026 release brings a new package manager and even more optimizations | GamingOnLinux

CachyOS remains as one of the most popular Linux distributions for gaming, and a fresh download has arrived with the CachyOS April 2026 release. If you already have CachyOS installed, just run updates as you normally would. It's a rolling release, so now and then they put up a fresh download with lots of improvements like this.
FOSSLinux ☛ CachyOS April 2026: Meet Shelly, the New Package Manager That Finally Gets It Right

CachyOS April 2026 ships Shelly, a Rust-based GUI package manager that replaces Octopi entirely. It reads real libalpm state instead of parsing terminal output, has a live install progress panel, and deeply integrates with KDE Plasma 6.6. Here is my hands-on verdict.

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