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.

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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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It’s another hot questions episode. Whether we think better on our own or with other people, our non-standard debugging habits, favourite interview questions, coding at night, character encoding, and abolishing time zones.

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The ugliest and jankiest hacks we’ve put into prod, and a few of the worst things we’ve seen other people get away with.

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