Bill Gates gives a possessed Doom heavy weapon dude both barrels in a rediscovered Windows 95 plus DirectX gaming presentation.

Linux developers are discussing removing x32 ABI from the Linux kernel; a hybrid x32/64-bit mode that was never widely adopted by software developers.

An IBM ThinkPad user boasts that they can install '(almost) all versions of Windows from NT 4 to 10 22H2' with driver support, without resorting to virtual machine (VM) technology.

AMD has been accused of 'bait-and-switch' tactics following changes to the licensing of Vivado on Linux.

California lawmakers introduced a new amendment that could exempt most Linux distributions from the state’s upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act after privacy backlash and concerns that the law would force open-source operating systems to become age-verification platforms.

We have all been there. You boot up a fresh Windows 11 installation only to be greeted by forced online accounts, AI assistants you didn't ask for, and background bloatware eating into your precious framerates. For years, the alternative has been Linux, but the perceived hassle of terminals and compatibility issues has kept most gamers away. What if I told you that you could ditch Windows, install a heavily optimized gaming OS, and be ready to launch your first Steam game in under 10 minutes?

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
00:56 Getting started…
03:04 Getting the system prepped
07:19 CachyOS installation
12:10 We’re in the OS!
15:53 Running games on Steam – the basics
20:02 How to troubleshoot
22:02 Running our game!
24:57 Closing thoughts

Let's not sugar coat it: the state of modern Windows is increasingly frustrating for PC enthusiasts. In our recent hardware reviews, we've seen first-hand how pre-installed software and OS-level bloat can literally rob you of your system's performance, leaving real framerates on the table for no good reason.

The classic counter-argument is always, “Just switch to Linux.” But for the average gamer, the idea of jumping into an entirely new operating system sounds like a daunting, weekend-long project filled with troubleshooting, mental gymnastics, and endless forum diving.

I wanted to prove that this simply isn't true anymore.

Enter CachyOS. It's a Linux distribution purpose-built for squeezing every last drop of performance out of your hardware right out of the box, with gaming at the forefront of its design. But rather than just throwing benchmarks at you, I decided to show you exactly how frictionless the transition can actually be.

In this video, we are doing a real-time, follow-along tutorial. No skipped steps and extra fluff. We start from absolute scratch by creating a bootable USB drive using Ventoy, walk through the surprisingly simple CachyOS graphical installer, and handle the post-install essentials together. We run through grabbing the necessary gaming packages (literally pressing a single button to install everything), ensuring the system is fully up to date, and logging straight into Steam.

The best part? From downloading the CachyOS .iso to getting on your new fresh CachyOS desktop in just a little over 10 minutes. If you have a spare NVMe drive sitting around, and you are simply fed up with the current direction of Microsoft's operating system and want a snappier, cleaner desktop experience, grab a coffee and hit play.

You might just find that the grass actually is greener on the other side.

KitGuru says: Let us know if you're a Linux user, or if this guide might just tempt you to try it out!

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"AI detected bugs are pretty much by definition not secret, and treating them on some private list is a waste of time for everybody involved."

Microsoft has finally confirmed that Windows Update downgrades GPU drivers in certain circumstances. A partial fix is coming later this year to reduce the chances of driver downgrades occurring on newer devices.

Microsoft introduces Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery, an important Windows reliability change designed to minimize buggy driver mayhem.

After a new "low Latency Profile" for Windows 11 was discovered last week, the community has responded severely, criticizing Microsoft for suppressing a bigger issue. The company, however, is defending the decision on social media, saying that it's only doing what every other operating system already does.

SupportAssist Remediation is a background service that Dell bundles on its Windows PCs to automate system recovery and repair tasks, and a recent update is reportedly causing BSOD loops.

AMD’s landmark K5 processor family will no longer be supported by Linux when kernel version 7.2 arrives.

Linux mascot Tux the penguin was first conceptualized by Linus Torvalds on this day in 1996.

A top Microsoft exec has admitted that Windows 11 still relies on a bunch of old code from the 1990s.

CISA warns of the actively exploited “Copy Fail” Linux flaw (CVE-2026-31431), enabling root access, with a public exploit released before patches were ready.

Pretty much no games recommend more than 16GB of RAM, even in the unoptimized era we're living in right now. Only a few titles at their highest presets say 32GB is ideal, so Microsoft claiming that 32GB is the future-proof standard isn't exactly wrong. You'll be fine with 16GB today, but perhaps not tomorrow.

Microsoft continues to make some of the earliest chapters of its operating system history open-source and freely available. Here's 86-DOS 1.00, released on its 45th anniversary, for example.

Andy Nguyen (TheFloW) has launched a guide to installing Linux on a PS5. By publishing the technical steps to turn a PlayStation 5 into a fully functional PC, Nguyen has effectively handed players a “Plan B” for hardware ownership. This jailbreak targets disc-version consoles running older firmwares, but not all equally.

The developer published the guide and all things necessary for this procedure on GitHub (via VideoCardz). Once the OS is installed, users are greeted by a Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon environment running on Linux kernel 7. Surprisingly, the installation is quite sophisticated, offering custom VRAM allocation, granular fan control, and a boost mode that can be toggled through system files. It essentially turns the console into a pseudo-Steam Machine, though it is currently limited to 60 Hz across all resolutions. Future updates may unlock 120 Hz support, but for now, the driver development team is focusing on the stability of 2K and 4K output at 60 FPS.

The guide only works with PS5 consoles running firmware versions 3.00 through 4.51. M.2 storage support is limited to firmwares in the 4.XX range. While firmware downgrading might be possible, the reliability of such a process remains a gamble for most users.

There are, of course, the usual growing pains associated with such a port. Wireless networking has its issues, often requiring a manual restart of the WLAN adapter, and the DualSense controller's built-in Bluetooth functionality is also not working. Perhaps the most important caveat is that this remains a soft mod. If the console is restarted, the Linux environment vanishes, requiring the jailbreak to be reapplied. While this might sound troublesome, it serves as a safety net, as the base PlayStation OS remains entirely untouched.

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Only PS5 Phat consoles on older firmware 3.00, 3.10, 3.20, 3.21, 4.00, 4.02, 4.03, 4.50, or 4.51 are supported.