TUXEDO Computers, the German Linux hardware vendor, announced it will rebase TUXEDO OS from Ubuntu LTS to Debian Testing. The company cited growing friction with Canonical's direction, particularly the increasing difficulty of keeping Snap packages out of the operating system and Ubuntu's AI-focused roadmap. TUXEDO OS will adopt what the company calls a "Continuous Debian" model, permanently tracking Debian Testing rather than following it into a stable release. The new base will default to Btrfs with SUSE's Snapper for automatic rollback snapshots after package updates. Existing users will need a clean install, though a migration path to Kubuntu will be available for those who prefer to stay on Ubuntu.
The Linux Mint team confirmed that Cinnamon 6.8 will drop the "experimental" label from its Wayland session, marking full official support alongside X11. The team resolved more than 20 crash scenarios, improved multi-monitor handling, added proper HiDPI support, and rebuilt components in QML for smoother animations under Wayland. On the gaming side, Valve shipped SteamOS 3.8.14 on 2026-07-05 with a fix for a Wi-Fi speed bug that affected Steam Deck and Steam Machine hardware. Certain routers were advertising incorrect MCS capabilities, causing SteamOS to throttle connection speeds unnecessarily. A 3.8.22 beta with the same fix landed simultaneously, suggesting Valve considered it low-risk enough to push directly to stable.
Canonical reverted Ubuntu's Rust-based cp command back to GNU Coreutils after discovering it broke live image builds. The issue stemmed from how the Rust implementation handled the -afL flag combination, where archive mode's implied recursive behavior was silently dropped. The cp, mv, and rm commands are back on GNU Coreutils for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, with Canonical planning to re-evaluate for the 26.10 cycle. Separately, deepin 25.2.0 landed with over 20 stability fixes for its Treeland Wayland compositor, updated Linux kernel branches (6.6 and 6.18), per-window taskbar icon splitting, and new file indexing controls that let users balance search speed against resource usage.
