Big Linux updates and news this week with Wayland improving with remote support finally, gaming explodes on Linux with new offerings, performance goes up, and AI joins Linux development. Here’s everything you need to know from a big week in Linux.

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https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_15.html
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/releases/tag/proton-10.0-4
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/amd-gfx/2026-January/137482.html
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/download/
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260126-swap-table-p3-v1-0-a74155fab9b0@tencent.com/
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https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/3193
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4863
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https://www.shotcut.org/blog/new-release-26.01.30/
https://amutable.com/blog/introducing-amutable
https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/releases/tag/v1.16.0
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b187e0c1-1df8-4529-bfe4-0a1d65221adc@meta.com/
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00:00 - XFWL4 A NEW Wayland Compositor for XFCE
01:13 Proton with EVEN MORE Windows Games
02:21 Valve Improves AMD's APUs on Linux
03:28 NVIDIA Announces GeForce NOW on Linux
06:07 Memory Patches Imrpove Linux Performance
07:31 FreeType Gets Improved
08:36 Linux 7.0 CPU Performance Boost
10:24 Dolby Digital Patent Expires
11:46 Ubuntu 26.04 Confirms Kernel V
12:57 GNOME 50 Lands Better GPU Detection
13:41 GNOME 50 VRR Stable
15:16 Plasma 6.7 Brings Back Features
16:13 Could We Lose Torvalds' REPO?
18:25 Linuxulator Steam Play on FreeBSD
19:42 Shotcut Using Hardware Decoding Now
20:49 SystemD Annouces a NEW Company
22:03 TigerVNC Improves Sharing Wayland Sessions
23:05 AI Code Revew for Linux
24:01 Rasp PI's Smart Display Module
25:07 Linux's b4 tool Now has AI Agent


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Big Linux News – Wayland Remote Desktop, Gaming Wins, AI Hits the Kernel