Exploring Linux Gaming and Hardware Recommendations

Linux 6.14 lands with big improvements for gaming, laptops, and filesystems—but why is a Windows feature sneaking into our kernel?

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• Linux 6.14
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• Btrfs Support for uncached buffered I/O
• FUSE and io_uring
• Windows NT synchronization primitives for Linux
• NixOS/nixos-hardware: A collection of NixOS modules covering hardware quirks.
• NerfyGek0/MeshtasticIOAddon — Documentation of how to use Meshtastic serial and MQTT functionality to automation custom hardware
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• Eloquent - Flathub
• languagetool — Style and Grammar Checker; it finds many errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect.
• LanguageTool standalone server