What are some exciting projects that you follow and hope to see progress on?
I’ll start!
- Wayland greeter on SDDM
- rust support on gcc
- more Wayland adoption (especially VSCodium & Firefox forks)
- Reproducible Build
- ReactOS
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Looks promising. A piece of software I didn’t know I needed.
Wayland on Plasma (sure, it works but still work in progress)
Lapce (like vscode but native)
Proper keyboard and screen sharing for WaylandSo many Wayland…
too many.
Bcachefs getting merged in the kernel
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This one’s exciting!
I’d love to see more work on Nvidia for wayland
Plasma 6
The cosmic DE
Wayland in XFCE (GOD, PLEASE HURRY UP)
Wine on wayland
VanillaOS 2
dream2nix
- 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
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Wasn’t this the one originally abandoned by Mozilla and then getting picked back up by someone?
Oculus on Linux, but thats a slow project
I just bought a Valve Index instead. Better tracking anyways with lasers now.
Helix editor, especially plugin system
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.
- 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.
Is Chimera Linux still under development? I thought that project died a while ago…
You must be confusing Chimera Linux with something else. The project had a new release over a week ago. https://chimera-linux.org/news/
- bcachefs
- the EEVDF scheduler
Bcachefs sounds incredible.
- System76 Virgo
- CosmicDE
- Wayland in general