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What are you most excited when it comes to linux in 2024? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by SherlockHawk@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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For me it must be kde plasma 6 and the wayland driver for wine.

Edit: I made the question gendered by using the word guys. I've fixed my mistake.

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[–] bier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago

zfs raidz expansion

[–] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years 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

[–] the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Pixel@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years 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.

[–] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What's exciting about Plasma 6?

I'm a Plasma user, and I can't think of anything I want them to change.

Okay, it would be cool if there were more plasmoids. That's about it.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

Plasma 5 has a loooot of bugs. I admire people that never find them. I reported like 60 already, and currently the fixes are only there in Plasma6.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

More stability, better Wayland support, better UI without crazy inconsistent padding everywhere.

Plasma 6 might be what makes me give it another chance. The lack of visual consistency and the bugs were what was keeping me away, but they're fixing a lot of that.

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[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] ben@lef.li 4 points 2 years ago

Better mainline support for RK3588 SoC

[–] emly_sh_@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Hopefully Wayland support for polybar

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Hope Wayland gets more support and Fractional Scaling will finally work well.

[–] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

What's so special about plasma 6? Currently on plasma 5 and like it. Don't really know too much it can improve on besides reliability and the desktop being more usable and easy to use.

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