Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands on the BOSGAME VTA-439 under CachyOS, testing Radeon 890M performance at 1080p across five quality presets.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Home
Discover the best free and open source alternatives to Apple Home for Linux, including Home Assistant, openHAB, Domoticz and other tools.
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LinuxLinks Is Changing – A Fresh Look and Updated Content
Discover what’s changing and share your feedback.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Phone Link
Best free and open source alternatives to Microsoft Phone Link for connecting, controlling and sharing data between Linux PCs and smartphones.
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Linux Will Never Succeed on the Desktop Until It Stops Expecting Users to Be Experts
Linux can be easy to use, yet newcomers are still expected to master terminal commands. Is the desktop held back by its own community?
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Machine Learning in Linux: Local AI Studio – local AI toolkit
Local AI Studio combines local LLM chat, Stable Diffusion, Whisper transcription and Kokoro text-to-speech in one Linux interface.
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BOSGAME VTA-439: Gaming on Linux – Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
Let’s see how the Radeon 890M integrated graphics performs.
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Stencil – powerful batch file renamer with live previews
Stencil is a modern Linux batch file renamer with stackable operations, live previews, presets, metadata-based renaming and undo support.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Roxio Easy CD & DVD Burning
Best free and open source alternatives to Roxio Easy CD & DVD Burning for burning, copying, ripping and authoring optical discs on Linux.
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AetherTune – Terminal Internet Radio Player Review
A review of AetherTune, an open source terminal radio player with station search, favourites, audio visualisation, and themes.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Data Studio
Explore the best free and open source alternatives to Google Data Studio for dashboards, reporting, analytics and data visualisation.
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4 Best Free and Open Source PKI and Certificate Authority Tools
Explore free and open source PKI and Certificate Authority tools for managing certificates, digital identities, signing and trust.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Roxio Easy VHS to DVD
Best free and open source alternatives to Roxio Easy VHS to DVD for capturing, converting, editing and authoring analogue video on Linux.
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Wayland Has Won, But It Hasn’t Replaced Everything X11 Did
Wayland has won the Linux desktop, but remote access, automation and accessibility can still be harder than under X11.
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BOSGAME VTA-439: Run VirtualBox on the Ryzen AI 9 HX 470’s Zen 5 Cores
Run VirtualBox on the Ryzen AI 9 HX 470’s Zen 5 cores with taskset and a KDE desktop entry, avoiding slower Zen 5c cores.
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SquirrelDisk – fast and attractive disk usage analyzer
SquirrelDisk is a fast open source disk usage analyzer with sunburst and treemap views, cleanup tools, SSH scanning, cloud storage and themes.
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6 Best Free and Open Source Application Sandboxing Tools
Explore Linux application sandboxing tools for isolating software and restricting access to system resources.
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Best Free and Open Source Software: September 2026 Updates
September 2026 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
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LinuxLinks Policy on AI-Heavy Software Projects
We explain why AI-heavy open source projects rarely feature on LinuxLinks and the standards software must meet before we recommend it.
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podcast-dl – Download and Archive Podcasts from the Command Line
podcast-dl is a flexible command-line tool for downloading, filtering, archiving and organising podcast episodes from RSS feeds.
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4 Best Free and Open Source PHP Code Formatters
Explore the best free and open source tools for automatically formatting PHP source code and enforcing consistent coding styles.
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Minisforum Says Disable Four of the MS-R1’s 12 CPU Cores – Is Linux Scheduling Them Properly?
Minisforum says disable four MS-R1 CPU cores. I test whether Linux schedules its heterogeneous 12-core ARM processor properly.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Connect
Discover free and open source alternatives to Adobe Connect for virtual classrooms, webinars and online meetings
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft SQL Server
Explore the best free and open source alternatives to Microsoft SQL Server.
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Linux Has Too Many Distributions – And Most New Ones Don’t Need to Exist
One of Linux’s greatest strengths is choice. It is also one of its easiest excuses.
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Beelink EQi 304: Can Linux Make Proper Use of Its One Fast CPU Core?
The Intel Core 3 304 has just one fast P-core alongside four LP E-cores. I test whether Linux gives that scarce resource to the right workloads.
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Kokoro – Open-Weight Text-to-Speech Model
Kokoro is a lightweight open-weight text-to-speech model offering local speech synthesis, multiple languages, voices, and speed control.
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How to Download YouTube Videos, Playlists, and Channels on Linux with 4K Video Downloader Plus
Download YouTube videos, playlists, channels, subtitles and audio on Linux with 4K Video Downloader Plus and its graphical interface.
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Full Steam Ahead – import games from other launchers into Steam
Full Steam Ahead imports games from other launchers into Steam, adds matching artwork, organises collections and backs up shortcuts.
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Argon2 GUI – graphical password hashing and verification
Argon2 GUI generates and verifies password hashes using Argon2id, Argon2i or Argon2d with configurable security parameters.
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PrismLinux – Arch-based Linux distribution with four desktop option
PrismLinux is an Arch-based Linux distribution offering KDE Plasma, GNOME, Cinnamon and niri with a universal ISO and custom installer.
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Serie – rich Git commit graph viewer
Serie is a Git history viewer that renders rich commit graphs, supports repository browsing, search, custom keybindings and user commands.
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Lindows OS – Debian-based Linux distribution for Windows users
Lindows OS is a Debian-based Linux distribution featuring Cinnamon, a Windows-style desktop, Wine integration and familiar applications.
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15 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI File Encryption Tools
This roundup looks at the finest GUI-based file encryption tools. Only free and open source software is included.
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Smatch – static analyser for C code
Smatch is a free and open source static analysis tool for C code with extensive checks designed for the Linux kernel.
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18 Best Free and Open Source Linux Chess Apps
Chess is a recreational and competitive board game played between two players. It’s a very popular game, played by millions across the world.
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Lerama – lightweight self-hosted feed aggregator
Lerama is a lightweight self-hosted feed aggregator supporting RSS, Atom, RDF and JSON Feed with search, categories and filtering.
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Lex – terminal-based Bible study and research tool
Lex provides terminal Bible study with interlinear texts, Strong’s references, topical searches, cross-references and study exports.
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27 Best Free and Open Source Python Linter Tools
This article picks some useful tools to help you fix Python code.
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Leed – lightweight self-hosted RSS and Atom reader
Leed is a lightweight self-hosted RSS and Atom feed reader with background updating, OPML migration and a responsive web interface.
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Selah – cross-platform Bible study app
Selah is a cross-platform Bible study app offering offline reading, notes, highlighting, Strong’s numbers, cross references and search.
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Blunux – Arch-based Linux distribution with KDE Plasma
Blunux is an Arch-based Linux distribution featuring KDE Plasma, a graphical installer, rolling updates and tools for building custom ISOs.
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13 Best Free and Open Source Unified Modeling Language Tools
Unified modelling software helps developers visualise, design and document software systems, their structures and interactions.
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ASGI WebDAV – asynchronous WebDAV server implementation
ASGI WebDAV is an asynchronous WebDAV server supporting multiple storage providers, accounts, permissions and authentication methods.
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klog – plain-text time tracking tool
klog is a command-line time tracking tool built around a human-readable plain-text file format with flexible filtering and reporting.
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Anthares OS – Debian-based desktop Linux distribution
Anthares OS is a Debian-based Linux distribution featuring Cinnamon, custom desktop utilities and graphical tools for newcomers.
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