Bazzite's latest stable image lands kernel 6.19.14-ogc5, Mesa 26.0.5, Gamescope 137, KDE Plasma 6.6.4, and a built-in fwupd flatpak for GUI firmware updates.
KDE Plasma 6.7 beta ships the first public preview of Union, a new theming system that takes over styling for every QML and Kirigami app once installed.
DEEPX's new DX-AIPlayer pairs an Intel N97 with the company's 25 TOPS DX-M1 M.2 NPU module, which carries its own 4GB of LPDDR5 for multi-model inference.
Added Orange Pi 6 Plus (12-core, dual 5GbE, $199+). Updated Raspberry Pi 5 prices (RAM crisis: 4GB $75, 8GB $115). Updated Radxa X4 to 2.5GbE and corrected pricing. Updated ZimaBoard 2 to retail pricing ($279+).
The best handheld gaming PCs for Bazzite in 2026, with updated prices, the new ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X, Legion Go S tariff price notes, and Valve confirming Steam Deck 2 is years away.
Valve's Timur Kristóf has posted patches adding DRM format modifier support to AMD GCN 1.0 through GFX8 GPUs, the last AMDGPU-supported cards that lacked it.
Lenovo's first Strix Halo gaming laptop pairs the Ryzen AI Max+ 392 with up to 64GB LPDDR5X and lets users assign 48GB of it as VRAM for the Radeon 8060S iGPU.
Lenovo's Yoga Air 14 Ultra Aura is the first laptop to ship with Intel's quietly released Core Ultra X9 378H, a 16-core Panther Lake chip with Arc B390 graphics.
Lenovo's ThinkStation P4 ships with Ubuntu and RHEL support, pairing AMD's 16-core Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D with up to 96 GB of RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell VRAM and 256 GB of DDR5.
Anbernic's RG Rotate is a pocket-sized Android retro handheld with a 3.5 inch square display that flips down over the gamepad, starting at $88.
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund is funding KDE to harden testing, security, and communications across the Plasma desktop and its broader free software stack.
Deep Computing's third RISC-V mainboard for the Framework Laptop 13 packs an octa-core SpacemiT K3, up to 32GB LPDDR5, and 60 TOPS of AI performance.
OpenZFS 2.4.2 adds Linux 7.1 support, fixes multiple dRAID corruption and rebuild bugs, and finishes porting Linux mount handling to the modern fs_context API.
Minisforum's M2 mini PC ships with a 16-core Core Ultra 7 356H, dual 2.5 GbE, USB4, Wi-Fi 7, and two M.2 NVMe slots in a 130 mm chassis.
SONOFF's new Hydro DUO is a dual-zone Zigbee 3.0 and BLE smart water valve with brass inlets, a flow meter, and Home Assistant support via MQTT.
