Steam stats suggest that gaming on Linux is more popular than ever, Wine improvements might entice even more gamers, Ubuntu might break things when it tightens up GRUB security and makes 6GB of RAM the minimum requirement for the desktop edition, and Ubuntu MATE is looking for new maintainers.
News
LAS 2026 Call for proposals extended till the 10th April
Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time
Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive
Ubuntu 26.10 could drop btrfs, ZFS and LUKS support from GRUB
Ubuntu quietly raises its minimum system requirements
Windows 11 has lower requirements
Ubuntu MATE – seeking maintainers
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