{"id":232929,"date":"2026-04-09T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/why-ubuntu-26-04-will-thrill-gamers-and-its-not-just-the-performance-bump\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T17:15:10","slug":"why-ubuntu-26-04-will-thrill-gamers-and-its-not-just-the-performance-bump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/why-ubuntu-26-04-will-thrill-gamers-and-its-not-just-the-performance-bump\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ubuntu 26.04 will thrill gamers &#8211; and it&#8217;s not just the performance bump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/ubuntu-26-04-performance\/\">Why Ubuntu 26.04 will thrill gamers &#8211; and it&#8217;s not just the performance bump<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/ubuntu-26-04-performance\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/ubuntu-26-04-performance\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-09 12:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Jack Wallen\/ZDNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ZDNET: <span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><span>Add us as a preferred source<\/span><\/span> on Google.<\/p>\n<h3>ZDNET&#8217;s key takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ubuntu 26.04 might be the fastest release yet.<\/li>\n<li>With a new kernel and GNOME 50, this raccoon can run.<\/li>\n<li>This is also the first Wayland-only release.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ubuntu 26.04, aka Resolute Raccoon, is just a few days away &#8212; April 23 &#8212; and it&#8217;s received a decent performance boost over version 25.10, according to Phoronix benchmarks.<\/p>\n<p>You can view the graphs and quickly see that 26.04 outperforms 25.10 across nearly every category, including PyPerformance, the Godot Game Engine, Kernel Compilation, and more. In fact, I didn&#8217;t see a single test where 26.04 lost to 25.10.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:\u00a0My 11 favorite Linux distributions of all time, ranked<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Faster is always the goal, even though it&#8217;s not always the reality. his time around it is. I took the latest beta out for a spin, and the performance gains are quite noticeable. Applications installed and opened faster than I&#8217;ve seen on any Ubuntu release in some time.  <\/p>\n<p>Where do these gains come from? Two places:<\/p>\n<p>Let me paint this in a way that could appeal to a large community of users.<\/p>\n<h2>Good news for gamers<\/h2>\n<p>Gaming.<\/p>\n<p>With Ubuntu 26.04 showing significant improvements over 25.10 and the latest release of Wine 11 (which delivers serious performance gains for Windows games on Linux), it&#8217;s easy to see why this is important. Even better, those performance gains don&#8217;t leave out AMD hardware. That could finally level the playing field for Intel and AMD.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s get back to gaming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>How much RAM does your Linux PC need in 2025? Here&#8217;s my ultimate sweet spot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A large swatch of gamers have been looking for a reason to jump off the Windows ship and into the warm embrace of Linux waters. This Ubuntu release gives that community one more piece of the puzzle they&#8217;ve been waiting for. (The final puzzle piece is all about the good old anti-cheat issue.)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a gamer and install\u00a0Wine 11\u00a0on Ubuntu 26.04, you should see a significant improvement over the Ubuntu 25.10\/Wine 10&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/ubuntu-26-04-performance\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Ubuntu 26.04 will thrill gamers &#8211; and it&#8217;s not just the performance bump https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/ubuntu-26-04-performance\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/8c4f2c4cdcbd2d03664432d23381631e5392b477\/2026\/04\/06\/00333ed2-d405-455a-958d-2848b356bee1\/ubuntu2604hero.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,79],"class_list":["post-232929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232931,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232929\/revisions\/232931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}