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In the news: Fedora 44 Gaming Ready; Manjaro 26.1 Preview; Microsoft Issues Warning About Linux Vulnerability; Is AI Coming to Your Ubuntu Desktop?; Framework Laptop 13 Pro Competes with the Best; Latest CachyOS Features Supercharged Kernel; Kernel 7.0 Is a Bit More Rusty; and France Says "Au Revoir" to Microsoft.
Fedora 44 Now Gaming Ready
I never thought I'd consider Fedora a solid gaming platform, but with the release of the latest iteration (version 44), the developers have enabled the NTSYNC kernel module. NTSYNC enables high-performance emulation of Windows NT synchronization primitives, which are used to manage thread interaction, protect shared resources, and prevent race conditions by signaling when threads can proceed. This new addition vastly improves gaming performance with Wine and Proton by moving synchronization to userspace tools like fsync and esync.
With the help of NTSYNC, you might see anywhere from 40-200 percent frames per second (FPS) gains! That's impressive.
As well, you'll get kernel 6.19, Gnome 50 (or KDE Plasma 6.6, if you go the Fedora KDE route), support for the Nix package manager, DNF5 support for PackageKit, and (finally) the Fedora Miracle spin gets the Dank Material Shell, which means the Miracle Window Manager should be working properly again (huzzah!).
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