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.

  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    11 months ago

    Linux will eventually make it seriously to the desktop in the next few years, possibly going as high as 15%-20% of the userbase (in my country Greece it’s already at 9%). But only because MS is going to destroy its Windows base by making it subscription etc.

  • azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    More Wayland adoption, more protocols and desktop portals, color management and HDR getting closer, even better gaming

    NVIDIA getting its shit together maybe?

  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
    6·
    11 months ago

    Plasma 6, but just as excited for kernel 6.7 featuring:

    • bcachefs
    • AMD Seamless Boot (for flicker-free streamlined booting)
    • Scheduler improvements for better responsiveness/performance
    • IO_uring FUTEX support for better performance
    • More FUTEX2 work for potentially better gaming performance
    • Better write performance for eMMC chips (great for many IoT boards)
    • TCP network performance improvements
    • DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.1 support over Type-C
      • meteokr@community.adiquaints.moe
        2·
        11 months ago

        Its got a closer feature set to ZFS (tiered storage is going to be huge for me personally), but a much friendlier license. ZFS’s licensing drama solidly convinced me not to touch it with a ten meter pole. BTRFS isn’t bad as well, I currently use it, but tiered storage is excellent. Was the only reason I used to consider ZFS, but becachefs is getting to have my cake and eat it too.

          • pbjamm@beehaw.orgEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            BTRFS is honestly really great and has been for the last few years. Dont take the word of random people on the interwebs, check out some modern sources of info on the subject. Some people love to complain about RAID5/6 but if you use BTRFS the BTRFS way then it is solid.

            With that said, if you dont need snapshots, drive mirroring, sub volumes, bit rot protection etc then EXT4 is hard to beat for reliability.

          • umbrella@lemmy.ml
            0·
            11 months ago

            Thats why I’m still on trusty old ext4. Dunno if this is true but I dont want to risk data loss.

      • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
        1·
        11 months ago

        Initial benchmarks show better performance than btrfs (at least for some workloads), but more importanty, I like that it offers tiered/cache storage - so you can use a fast and small drive (NVMe) to speed up a slow and bigger drive (HDD). You can do that with ZFS as well of course, but it doesn’t have the massive RAM requirements. Also it’s much more easier to set up and configure in comparison.

  • andrew0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    5·
    11 months ago

    It’s amazing that Linux gaming is becoming a thing that’s better sometimes than Windows gaming (minus the getting banned part in some games). I also like that AMD is making some big pushes on open source drivers, plus their ROCm open-source alternative to CUDA.

    This is a great time for Linux users! :)

  • Pixel@lemmy.sdf.org
    5·
    11 months 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.

  • highduc@lemmy.ml
    4·
    11 months ago

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

  • Secret300@sh.itjust.works
    41·
    11 months ago

    I’m excited for convergence and Linux mobile.

    Wayland becoming the default for every DE. X11 needs to go.

    I’m hoping more market share will mean more applications come to Linux and better support for hardware. Cough cough Nvidia

    Bcachefs also looks interesting but I need to look into it more.

    And I’m also excited for all the things I don’t know about and didn’t even think about showing up

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Now that they’re working on it, I’m interested in seeing how well Wayland in Cinnamon works. Hopefully it can fix some tearing and stuttering issues in my mixed refresh rate multimonitor setup.

    Will also be interesting to see how the landscape with Windows goes, especially considering I’m picking up traces of discontent in their ranks. I think Valve’s actions will probably cause them to sit up and pay attention.

  • zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works
    41·
    11 months 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@lemmy.ca
      01·
      11 months ago

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

  • I_like_cats@lemmy.one
    3·
    11 months 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