Linux Weekly Daily Wednesday

For the first time, Linux hits 5 percent desktop market share. Wayback aims to bridge the gulf between X11 and Wayland, Ubuntu 25.10 raises the bar for RISC V support, and hardware accelerated HDR to SDR tone mapping on ARM for fun and entertainment.

Ploopy releases a high-resolution Knob, advanced profile management for GPUs on Linux, a new Wi-Fi and Bluetooth module from RasPi, and a glimpse at the future of gaming on ARM.

Fedora proposes dropping support for i686, Apple finally kills off FireWire, installing Linux on a $1600 mixing console, and Flathub reaches 3 billion downloads.

Apple makes running Linux containers iEasy, KiCad explains its (lack of) Wayland support, Denmark isn't switching to Linux, and Killed by Mozilla catalogs discontinued products and services.

Ubuntu drops support for GNOME on X11. Banana Pi slaps four 2.5 Gbps ports on its latest router board, KDE courts abandoned Windows 10 users, and YouTube takes a swipe at self-hosting.