Reprinted with permission from Ryan T he hostile Microsoft-backed tech media has been blaming "Linux" for trouble that Intel caused which could destroy Intel hardware. It all started last week when Intel asked Greg KH, the stable Linux kernel series branch maintainer, to bring in a patch series to better handle display power saving. The problem was that they only marked part of the patch series for backport and what ended up in Linux 5.19.12 was a half-broken mess that was entirely the fault of Intel. Users on bleeding edge GNU/Linux distributions, which included this author, brought in Linux 5.19.12 thinking nothing of it. Fortunately, the problem (flickering display that may cause hardware damage) did not appear to happen to my Gen11 Tiger Lake laptop with Intel IRIS Xe graphics. I did start experiencing some weird glitches across the system though which freaked me out wondering if they were hardware failure.