KDE Roadmap for 2021, Nvidia now loves Wayland, and Epic Games Store on Linux - Linux News

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This time we have the KDE roadmap for the year, Nvidia preparing to better support Wayland and ray tracing on Linux, the death of Flash Player, and an open source epic games store client for Linux. Let's take a look, right after this.

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KDE published their broad roadmap for 2021, and there are some interesting things in there: the team is aiming for a production ready Wayland session. https://pointieststick.com/2021/01/01/kde-roadmap-for-2021/

Linux is now available on some pretty amazing hardware: the Nintendo 64. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/01/linux-on-the-nintendo-64-yes-thats-possible-and-theres-a-new-up-to-date-port

Remember that project to port Linux to the Apple M1 chips? Well this project has a name now: Asahi Linux. https://asahilinux.org/about/

Linux developers are pondering whether to remove support for old CPUs from the kernel. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=2021-Linux-Drop-Old-CPUs

Nvidia seems to be willing to move forward to support hardware accelerated XWayland. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/01/nvidia-getting-geared-up-to-support-hardware-accelerated-xwayland

The GNOME team has published a new update on their upcoming redesign of the SHell's multitasking interface. https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2021/01/07/a-shell-ux-update/

Slimbook has announced a new laptop, called the TITAN. It's AMD based, with a ryzen 7, and an Nvidia RTX 3070. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/01/slimbook-reveal-the-ryzen-7-and-rtx-3070-powered-titan

Seems like the death of Flash is finally real. The older plugin had already been reviled and cast out since smartphones started poking their noses and creating a mobile web, but now, most if not all browsers have officially dropped support for it, including Firefox. https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2020/11/17/ending-firefox-support-for-flash/

Mozilla has also now opened their VPN to Mac and Linux users. https://vpn.mozilla.org/

Some bad news for Linux gaming, Mad Max and Shadow of Mordor are now dropped from Linux and Mac OS X. https://www.gamingonlinux ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKYrLhOjkfc