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Cosmic
This one is really close!
More nixOS development. It's the reproducible builds on the OS scale, one configuration file that will always generate exactly the same system when run, and you can update and rebuild from that file without restarting the system in most cases. This should make triangulating and fixing distro issues much easier, as well as making a distro easier to maintain from the user side.
Wait, it's like docker, but for entire OS with packages, configuration and stuff like that?
Yes, and every package specifically defines the exact version of its libraries that it needs and the system symlinks everything together package by package, so there's no chance than an update will break something further upstream. The configuration file also controls things like MySQL configuration and user permissions so you can get literally the exact same system. I think even docker doesn't control for library versions with its regular configuration.
EDIT: And it keeps older versions of the configuration file and its symlink arrangement around, so if something goes wrong, you can reboot the machine and select an older version from the bootloader.
Definitely docker (well, let's say containers) control the library version, if you didn't build the image specifically not to do that (e.g. fetching dependencies at runtime, which is generally a bad practice and not the default).
However, at build time if you use things like "apt install ..." You will get different versions depending on when you build the image, but once the image is built, you have always the same software inside. Obviously it is very different from nix as they serve very different purposes (one day I will find the motivation to switch to nixOS!).
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Better than Docker in terms of reproducibility. While Docker containers are usually more or less reproducible, Docker images are not as the Dockerfiles depend on lots of external state such as the repositories of the distro used as a base image. This is also partially true for NixOS, but it's far more realistic to pin a version of nixpkgs (the Nix(OS) repository) than do the same with Debian repositories. The new Flake format even provides a way to pin nixpkgs by default.
NVK drivers for nvidia GPUs
Wayland on Plasma (sure, it works but still work in progress)
Lapce (like vscode but native)
Proper keyboard and screen sharing for Wayland
So many Wayland...
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- I don't realistically expect to see any progress here but video hardware acceleration gaining first-class support in popular applications would be a nice dream. The one area Linux is complacent to be "inefficient".
- One of the KDE devs has been working on some magic that might keep application state even after the desktop crashes.
- Chimera Linux.
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Helix editor, especially plugin system
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- bcachefs
- the EEVDF scheduler
Bcachefs sounds incredible.
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I'd love to see more work on Nvidia for wayland
Oculus on Linux, but thats a slow project
I just bought a Valve Index instead. Better tracking anyways with lasers now.
Lapce
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A Synergy/Barrier/Input-Leap for Wayland
Note that Input Leap will be supported on a Wayland session in GNOME 45 / Fedora 39 thanks to the new InputCapture portal and Peter Hutterer's libei work.
Barrier seems to be dead upstream and Synergy is closed source though, so those 2 probably won't get updated soon
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- System76 Virgo
- CosmicDE
- Wayland in general
Bcachefs getting merged in the kernel
Waypipe ad krdp
First one is network transparency for wayland apps, second one is plasma wayland rdp server
VSCodium has a Wayland version already. On firefox, you have to enable it if it doesn't do it by default.
The rest are the same with yours but add wayland allow tearing support for better latency in videogames.
I should add this is for Flatpak apps!
Polonium - autotiling for KDE 5.27. Ever since KDE Plasma broke Bismuth on wayland, i've been running with bare Plasma. Polonium is the first project to work (mostly) as Bismuth used to, although it's just one developer working on it as far as i understood and it still has a bunch of bugs. But really looks promising.
Also, KDE 6 (which will break everything again probably) :D
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- Rpm-ostree: more robust apply-live updates; local rpm package upgrades without needing to remove previous versions first
- Thunderbird/K-9 Mail: continued work on modernizing the UI and features of both desktop and mobile versions
- GNOME: smoother animations and increased performance for low-end GPUs and IGPs (triple buffering implementation, etc.)
- Firefox Mobile: site isolation
Plasma 6
The cosmic DE
Wayland in XFCE (GOD, PLEASE HURRY UP)
Wine on wayland
VanillaOS 2
dream2nix
Apart from what's already been mentioned, I'm eager to test Spacedrive
New season of One Punch Man
Pretty niche, but:
https://github.com/canboat/canboat
Allows me to interface a PC to a canbus in an efficient manner. I wrote an autopilot in perl using that, but I would like to see the project mature to the point where it is stable enough for production environments.
V :)
What?
They could be refering to the V programming language
You've heard of VI and VIM(proved) now get ready for V! With support for... opening files and that's it!
So cat?
My apologies, V is a new programming language based on Rust, Go and some others. I've been learning it a bit, and its fairly easy to learn, so i hope it has a bright future :)
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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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