Wayland Improvements for Chromium-based Browsers

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00:00 Intro

01:15 Cosmic is working on its first alpha

https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-the-road-to-alpha

04:56 The Wayland saga continues

https://blog.tenstral.net/2024/01/wayland-really-breaks-things-just-for-now.html

09:48 Chromium gaining hardware accelerate video decoding on Wayland

https://linuxiac.com/chromium-vaapi-comes-to-wayland/

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13:20 The Linux kernel 6.7 being released

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/01/linux-kernel-6-7-new-features

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Features-Early-Look

16:55 Mint 21.3 is out

https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-21-3-virginia-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new

19:37 Cool new mockups for GNOME

https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2024/01/09/recent-gnome-design-work/

22:33 Some cool stuff coming to GNOME 46 and beyond

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-46-Alpha https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-VRR-2024

25:30 New Linux malware installs cryptominer

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/a-previously-unknown-worm-has-been-stealthily-targeting-linux-devices-for-a-year/

27:39 Gaming:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/ayaneo-next-lite-handheld-announced-with-steamos-linux/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Pipeline-Shader-Cache

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-24.0-Feature-Ends

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/heroic-games-launcher-v2120-brings-lots-of-improvements-and-some-fun-experiments/

37:56 Outro