What developments in the Linux world are you looking forward to the most?

art, 10 months ago

I’m excited watching the maturity of Pipewire/Wayland. I do a lot of audio and video work with Linux and these tools are so close to being perfect.

Reva, 10 months ago

Some more unique, old, retro or esoteric desktop environments developing further or new ones propping up.

nikolas, 10 months ago

Right? I agree. Retro/vintage is a very popular style as a whole, why not include it in a desktop environment?

sgtnasty, 10 months ago

Cosmic Desktop

mojo, 10 months ago

XFCE Wayland would be pretty sweet. Also native night mode whenever they add that.

freeman, 10 months ago

hot plug for PCIe/eGPU/USB-C/TB4 devices

dontcarebear, 10 months ago

Kinda with ya on that one - Wayland maturing and becoming standardized across all features and platforms to replace X11.

citytree, 10 months ago

Looking forward to greater support for “driverless printing” in more Linux distributions, especially via IPP-over-USB. This would allow most consumer-level printers to be used directly from Linux without needing proprietary drivers and/or explicit Linux support from the printer vendor. This solves one of the common pain points when using desktop Linux at home.

zos_kia, 10 months ago

I like the kind of revival of nice TUIs that is going on right now. I just wish it continues !

Zozano, 10 months ago

I’m looking forward to XFCE/Wayland.

I started Linux 2 years ago, and learned a lot, but never bothered learning about X11 because I figured it would be a waste of time.

afb, 10 months ago

Me too. I love XFCE so much, but it’s impossible to deny how large a step forwards Wayland is on a technical level (although there are still kinks to work out). When XFCE moves over, I’ll be able to confidently do so as well.

docrobot, 10 months ago

X12

Abusager, 10 months ago

pop os new de

mojo, 10 months ago

If you’re not familiar with Linux and distros, this reads like a foreign language lol

meisme, 10 months ago

Pop_OS!, a popular Linux distribution, is writing a new desktop environment. A desktop environment is basically the functionality of the desktop, think the taskbar and window snapping, etc. on Windows and the dock and top bar on macOS. A desktop environment also comes with its own set of apps, like how Windows comes with Explorer and Task Manager.

heimchen, 10 months ago

Yea, Cosmo Desktop sounds really cool.

Raphael, 10 months ago

Red Hat dying

Atemu, 10 months ago

That’d be an insane blow and would take years if not decades to recover from.

mojo, 10 months ago

Just because they’re fucking up RHEL doesn’t mean they’re not the biggest contributer to Linux there is.

emr, 10 months ago

x86box, Flashpoint Archive, Ruffle, and other tools to sustain the usefulness of the golden age of computing well into the future.

Eelviny, 10 months ago

HDR and wide color gamut! While the displays are still only really available in the mid to high end (I don’t count HDR400), it’s no longer just pro gear and I upgraded to a new display recently that I’d love to take advantage of it with. I’ve been using the new, still in testing Variable Refresh Rate on GNOME and this would be the final piece of the puzzle for making me ditch windows 100% when it comes to gaming, as Proton has basically solved every other issue for me - I’m primarily a singleplayer gamer.

meisme, 10 months ago

I think KDE and Gamescope have experimental HDR working with Windows games.

8Bitz0, 10 months ago

I don’t know if KDE got it working yet, but Gamescope’s works pretty well out-of-the-box. Nobara and maybe Chimara OS already have this ready with a session for Steam Big Picture mode.

Kinda funny that Windows games seem to always get compatibility with these things first. I guess just adding support in Wine means more games get the functionality at once than developers adding it on a per-game basis.

Lanthanae, 10 months ago

The ever-improving ecosystem for NixOS as a desktop environment.

I switched over to Nix around a month ago, and in that time I’ve already seen several guides and sources of documentation improve themselves significantly. I could see NixOS documentation eventually becoming almost as impressive as the Arch Wiki, and it seems that process is in hyperdrive right now.