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Top stories include the expiration of the last MPEG-4 Part 2 patent, Valve sponsoring a port of the open-source RADV Vulkan driver to Windows, Linus Torvalds reaffirming Linux is not anti-AI, ReactOS running Half-Life 2 and implementing its first NT6 syscall, Firefox 153 with Vulkan video decoding, GNOME 51 alpha, AMD P-State patches boosting 1%-low gaming FPS by 31%, and Proton 11.0-1. Hardware reviews covered include Ubuntu vs. Windows 11 benchmarks on a Razer Blade 18, CachyOS outperforming Windows on AMD Ryzen AI hardware, KDE Plasma 6.7 X11 vs. Wayland gaming, and AWS Graviton5 vs. AMD EPYC vs. Intel Xeon server comparisons. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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