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Someone built a Linux desktop where windows are paper on a walnut desk and the dock is a drawer
A developer who goes by fyzugx on GitHub released DEsk, a Wayland desktop for Linux where the desktop is an actual desk.
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Someone ran an unmodified Linux graphics driver on an iPad
An iPad is running Linux's own graphics driver, unmodified, to drive an AMD GPU in a Thunderbolt enclosure.
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A developer got Google's Googlebook OS running on an Apple Silicon Mac
Googlebook OS now runs on a Mac, unofficially, in a virtual machine with GPU acceleration and Chrome working.
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A Valve engineer made decade-old Radeon cards up to 30% faster on Linux
Timur Kristóf, of Valve's Linux graphics driver team, moved old AMD graphics cards from the legacy Radeon driver to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver, and he presented that work in Toronto at XDC 2026.