What are you most excited when it comes to linux in 2024?

jw13, 1 year ago

As a GNOME user:

A lot of development is ongoing in GNOME thanks to the Sovereign Tech Fund. I’m curious what that will bring.

Also hoping that the proposed tiling functionality will be implemented.

h_a_r_u_k_i, 1 year ago

Also excited for this. I tried KDE before but I didn’t find it easy to configure (too manually for a declarative guy like me). I like more the simplicity of Gnome.

the16bitgamer, 1 year ago

Oh I know this answer! Not using Windows, right?

nickwitha_k, 1 year ago

I’m looking forward to hardware and firmware hacking on a Framework laptop.

morethanevil, 1 year ago

I am waiting for Plasma 6 too. Maybe it will ship with Fedora 40 🤔

I hope so

And I am looking forward to Ubuntu server 24.04

ishigami_san, 1 year ago

More NixOS!!!

highduc, 1 year ago

Guix ftw!

ishigami_san, 1 year ago

Definitely more Guix, esp. as now Guix is available to NixOS

Pixel, 1 year ago

Bcachefs, love COW files. I wish all file systems had it even if it naively copied the whole file on first write. Sort of a write safe hard link.

zaphodb2002, 1 year ago

Getting my Pinephone Pro up and running, and getting away from Google forever, finally. Also I’m gonna make the jump from Arch to either Gentoo and/or Guix, I think.

KseniyaK, 1 year ago

Mee too. Already switched to Gentoo. I also plan on setting up my own NAS.

I_like_cats, 1 year ago

I’m hoping for COSMIC to come out. It looks so promising and the fact that they implemented the panels using wlr-layer-shell is so great. I think more desktop environments should do this for interoperability

radioactiveradio, 1 year ago

Kde plasma 6

AlijahTheMediocre, 1 year ago

Hoping to see Gnome make some progress on Mosaic Tiling. Also wish they’d bite the bullet already and implement a SSD fallback and go along with Hex color values and just choose named colors from there.

bier, 1 year ago

zfs raidz expansion

const_void, 1 year ago

What Plasma 6 feature are you waiting for?

d3Xt3r, 1 year ago

For me:

• Ability for a panel to stay visible but dodge windows, for a dock-like behavior.
• Better/customisable touchpad gestures (rumored)
• HDR support on Wayland
• Simultaneous password and fingerprint authentication
• Decoupling of icons from the Plasma theme (so ALL icons are changed when you apply a systemwide icon theme)

highduc, 1 year ago

I hope Valve will make the Index VR work again after breaking it with the 2.x updates in October :')

emly_sh_, 1 year ago

Hopefully Wayland support for polybar

ownsauce, 1 year ago

Moving beyond linux mint to other distros so I can learn more and have a more customizable linux experience.

I got fed up with windows 10, and then windows 11 pushed me away from ever wanting to use windows again.
Linux mint has been fun but its a bit too barebones when it comes to customization ( though that's one of its strengths since its so easy and straightforward for a longtime windows user to move over to linux)

Also I've had a bunch of trouble with Nvidia drivers and playing new games in 2023, so I'll probably buy/build a new linux desktop in late 2024 on AMD CPU/GPU.