As we start the new year what are you hoping for in the Linux ecosystem?

  • onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    6 days ago

    Please for all that is good in the world, let the Linux foundation invest the majority of their funds in the Linux kernel first. Then please have a marketing budget bigger than what’s left… A paltry 2% of their funding going to kernel stuff is an absolute joke.

    The kernel also badly needs to be rewritten in rust. Not all at once but piecemeal. The rust tooling is lightyears ahead of whatever is being used now, getting into a rust project is also so much easier. There’s another project, the name of which I can remember, doing a rewrite and building it is a simple as cargo build. Seriously, that’s the level of simplicity I want, not whatever bullshit I have to do now and follow a guide, take my own notes on how to make it work on my specific distro, fail a few times, and stare at unreadable GCC errors.

    Also please please please stop using a mailing list (or at least make it optional). Holy moly are you losing a bunch of next gen devs through that. Regardless of how controversial the CoC was, it finally changed the tone a little, which is nice, but mailing lists are seriously archaic. The absolute minority uses them. It’s another big thing hampering kernel development (at least to me). They are a terrible experience through and through that make it difficult to follow discussions, diffs difficult to read and interact with (leave comments on lines and respond to them), and spams the inbox.

    Please let kernel development move into this century.

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  • Sickday@kbin.earth
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    6 days ago

    No particular order to these.

    • A full XFCE release with wayland support
    • HDR on DEs other than Plasma
    • More support for Snapdragon X laptops and ARM64 platforms
    • NVK support for Maxwell GPUs
  • Telorand@reddthat.com
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    7 days ago

    In no particular order:

    • PikaOS 5. I want to see this project flourish, and I think they bring some much-need UX innovations to certain GUI tools (their system update interface is the best I’ve seen so far). I also love that they’ve dumped Ubuntu in order to do the CachyOS optimization thing upon a Debian base while still keeping everything bleeding edge.

    • Improved default keyring services in KDE. kwallet is kinda messy, and some people have pointed out that their use of blowfish is behind current best practices. On the flipside, using PGP means entering your password twice to unlock your keyring, so the experience is just not great out of the box.

      • I’m aware you can use third party tools like KeePass, but a user should not have to use something else to get a good experience.
    • Total Linux desktop share at 3%.

    • More/Frequent upstream gaming improvements from the Valve x Arch joint effort.

    • Nvidia integration parity with AMD

    • Open source Nvidia driver (as long as we’re wishing)