Topic: hardware compatibility
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Ditched Windows for Linux: My Success Story
The author successfully switched from Windows to Linux, choosing the Arch-based CachyOS distribution with the KDE Plasma desktop, and found the installation process educational due to the many user choices involved. Hardware compatibility was largely seamless, with devices like an Nvidia graphics...
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Valve Unveils Major Steam Controller Upgrade With Surprising Design
Valve has announced a redesigned Steam Controller for Spring 2026, offering compatibility with PCs, mobile devices via Steam Link, and new Steam systems, and featuring over 35 hours of battery life. The controller includes significant upgrades such as dual TMR magnetic thumbsticks for durability ...
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Chromebook vs. Windows Laptop: Which Should You Buy?
Chromebooks are limited by their inability to install traditional desktop applications, relying instead on web apps and Android apps from the Google Play Store, which may not be fully optimized. The hardware for Chromebooks has significantly improved, especially with the Chromebook Plus certifica...
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Unlock AirPods' Best Features on Android & Linux for Free
LibrePods is a free app that enables Android and Linux users to access advanced AirPods features by mimicking an Apple device connection through reverse-engineered protocols. The app unlocks functionalities like ear detection, head gesture controls, noise cancellation switching, and accurate batt...
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Valve Eyes Arm for Future SteamOS Handhelds and Laptops
Valve is actively exploring Arm architecture for future SteamOS devices, signaling a strategic expansion of its ecosystem into handhelds and laptops. The company is enhancing SteamOS to support a wider array of Arm devices, improving compatibility and performance for a smooth gaming experience. V...
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Windows 10 Upgrade Deadline: 5 Urgent Options Before Time Runs Out
Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025, and Microsoft will not extend it or change Windows 11's strict hardware requirements, leaving many functional PCs ineligible for an official upgrade. Users can enroll in the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for up to three years, with consumers ...
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Run Linux Desktop Apps on Your Android Phone
Running Linux desktop applications on Android is becoming practical due to a shift from software rendering to GPU acceleration, enabling mobile devices to function as portable workstations. The key advancement is GPU-accelerated rendering, which uses technologies like gfxstream to offload graphic...
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Framework Laptop 16 Review: The Upgradeable GPU Revolution
The Framework Laptop 16 introduces a modular, upgradeable GPU system, allowing users to replace just the graphics card instead of the entire machine, which extends the laptop's lifespan and offers significant cost savings. It features swappable graphics modules from various manufacturers, providi...
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Nvidia's DLSS 4.5: The Gamer's Win at CES 2026
Nvidia's DLSS 4.5 is a significant software upgrade that provides immediate performance and image quality improvements for gamers across a wide range of compatible GeForce RTX hardware. The update features two major enhancements: a refined AI upscaler for superior image quality and a more powerfu...
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Protect Your Windows 10 From Hackers With This One Step
Windows 10's official security support ended in October 2025, leaving systems without critical patches and creating a significant, growing vulnerability risk. Users can temporarily mitigate this risk by enrolling in a paid Extended Security Updates program or by relying on Microsoft Defender upda...
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Google Pixel Watch 4 Brings Back Gesture Controls
The Google Pixel Watch 4 is receiving a software update that reintroduces hands-free gesture controls, including a double-pinch gesture for actions like answering calls and dismissing alerts. The update also revives a wrist-flick gesture, now repurposed to dismiss on-screen content like notificat...
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Valve Quietly Redefines PC Gaming as Microsoft Pushes Xbox Brand
Valve is creating a hardware and software ecosystem to reduce PC gaming's reliance on Microsoft Windows and x86 architecture, using SteamOS and Arm processors to enable a full gaming experience independent of traditional platforms. The new products, including a compact console, an updated control...
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Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix for Windows 11 Update
Microsoft is releasing an emergency update for Windows 11 to fix application failures and hardware connectivity issues caused by a recent mandatory patch. The problematic update disrupted localhost HTTP/2 connections and caused issues with Logitech hardware, non-responsive peripherals, and securi...
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Xbox Controllers Get a Major Windows 11 Upgrade
Microsoft is updating Xbox controllers on Windows 11 to allow users to open Task View by holding the Xbox button, improving multitasking during gameplay or productivity. A long press activates Task View while the power-off function remains unchanged, aligning with interface improvements for handh...
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Linux Devs Unite to Launch Open Gaming Collective
The Open Gaming Collective (OGC) has formed to unify key open-source projects, aiming to centralize development on core gaming components like kernel patches and tooling to improve hardware compatibility and reduce duplicated work. Founding members include diverse projects like Nobara, ChimeraOS,...
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What Linux Needs to Truly Compete With Windows
Linux desktop adoption is hindered by significant fragmentation across desktop environments, packaging systems, and distributions, which confuses users despite growing interest driven by Windows' privacy and hardware issues. The ecosystem is addressing software incompatibility with universal cont...
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Analogue 3D Firmware 1.1.9 Update: Full Patch Notes
The Analogue 3D console excels in build quality and flawless N64 gameplay, but its latest firmware update (v1.1.9) only partially addresses user-reported issues, leaving some hardware design problems unresolved. Compatibility issues persist, including inconsistent flash cartridge support requirin...
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Modder Hacks Raspberry Pi 500+ to Run an RX 7900 XT
The Raspberry Pi 500+ was modified by Jeff Geerling to connect a powerful Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics card via its NVMe M.2 slot, demonstrating the board's unexpected versatility beyond its original design. Despite the Raspberry Pi 5's processor being a bottleneck for modern gaming, the system ran...
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Intel Arc Alchemist: Xe vs. i915 Driver Performance on Linux 6.19
The article compares Intel's legacy **i915** and modern **Xe** kernel drivers for Linux, focusing on performance for Arc Alchemist and Meteor Lake GPUs like the Arc A580. The **Xe driver** is a forward-looking design with better support for modern architectures and non-x86 platforms, though Alche...
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QNX 8.0 Developer Desktop Launches with Wayland & Xfce
A new self-hosted QNX development desktop allows developers to build applications natively on QNX 8.0, eliminating the traditional need for cross-compilation and offering a free personal license for non-commercial use. The environment provides a modern desktop experience with Xfce and Wayland, an...
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Steam Machine: 4 Ways Valve is Changing PC Gaming
The Steam Machine aims to reshape PC and console gaming by offering a compact, living-room-friendly design that could challenge established players like Sony and Microsoft with competitive pricing and high-performance claims. It simplifies the transition for console gamers to the PC platform by p...
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Microsoft's emergency Windows 11 update fixes critical recovery bug
Microsoft released an emergency update (KB5070773) for Windows 11 to fix a bug in the Windows Recovery Environment that blocked USB mouse and keyboard use during recovery or reset processes. The issue originated from the October 14th monthly update and affected Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2, ...
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Leaked: Microsoft's New Xbox Mode for Windows Handhelds Revealed
Microsoft is launching a dedicated Xbox interface for handheld gaming PCs, accessible via Windows 11 updates, offering a streamlined, console-like experience that enhances gaming performance. The Xbox mode conserves about 2GB of memory by bypassing standard Windows processes, allowing direct acce...
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Play Super Nintendo Games on Your PC with Epilogue's USB Dock
The SN Operator is a new USB dock that allows users to play original SNES and Super Famicom game cartridges on modern computers or handheld devices like the Steam Deck. A key feature is its preservation capability, enabling users to authenticate cartridges and create digital backups of their game...
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AMD EXPO v1.2 Unlocks Better Memory Overclocking
AMD's EXPO 1.2 update refines DDR5 memory overclocking to improve stability, user-friendliness, and boot times based on community feedback. User discussions highlight concerns over voltage safety for AM5 processors and note that EXPO profile compatibility can be inconsistent, sometimes requiring ...
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New AI Dev Tools for Windows: Enhanced Features & UI
Microsoft introduced Windows AI Foundry at Build 2025, expanding its AI tools to make Windows a leading ecosystem for AI development. The platform simplifies AI model deployment with automatic hardware detection and updates, ensuring compatibility and performance across devices. Foundry Loc...
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Dbrand's Steam Deck Gets a Portal Companion Cube Skin
Dbrand is releasing a limited edition Companion Cube skin for Valve's Steam Machine, blending nostalgic Portal design with modern hardware aesthetics and scheduled for a 2026 launch. The skin is an external shell that attaches seamlessly without blocking air intakes or exhaust, ensuring optimal t...
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iPhone 17 Unveils Major Security Upgrade, Apple Confirms
Apple's iPhone 17 series introduces Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), a major security upgrade designed to protect against memory-based exploits like Pegasus by securing critical system processes. The security layer is enabled by default and covers the kernel and over 70 userland processes, usi...
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Star Wars: Beyond Victory Review - A Thrilling New Adventure
Star Wars: Beyond Victory fails to deliver on its immersive VR podracing promise, with a rushed story that can be completed in about an hour and lacks depth in character development and plot. The gameplay is underwhelming, featuring simplistic VR segments and podracing viewed from a bird's-eye pe...
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