Rootless Linux based on containers or at the very least better practices like least privilege.
Android has done a very good job with security. Let’s do that for the desktop.
More users.
But seriously, more ports of and/or viable alternatives to professional applications. It’s the top reason people stick with Windows—even when they don’t like it.
I don’t see that happening like you think it can.
I think trying to get people on Linux is kind of silly. Just document the stuff you do and post about how you solve your own problems.
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Built-in Local AI Assistant
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Local AI-Based Image/Video Editing Features
Are these like… Really things people want…? These seem either superfluous, or like they should just be standalone apps dedicated to this sort of functionality if people want them.
These are niche in their actual usefulness to a point of essentially being irrelevant. Of all the user experience polish, nice-to-have-features, and general system integration that this space needs, these kinda feel like proactive wastes of time…
The “AI” stuff is just fluff and isn’t something that should be forced into everything. It isn’t going anywhere but it would be nice if the tech would hurry up and settle.
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Yess, because if I’ve learned one thing in the past year, then it’s that users love AI being shoved into everything!
Why stop at an AI assistant? Build AI into the kernel, I say! Let AI handle system calls, so everyone can be a low-level programmer! The kernel will just guess what your intentions were!
This is the author telling on themself, the whole article was probably generated by a LLM.
But an NPU is a much-needed necessity for most users! We definitely need to include a LLM in every base image so that this necessity can actually be used by software.
Don’t hard-reboot when memory runs out.
The process that takes up the memory is killed
Finish the transition from X to Wayland?
I just want Sway to work on Nvidia GPU without flickering.
I’m not a super-savvy user. Can someone explain to me why I should care about X vs Wayland? Everything seems to work with X, and as I’ve just read, many programs don’t support Wayland. So will this transition just lead to lots of broken software once someone decides they won’t ship with X by default anymore?
X is broken and the people who understand it at a deep level are pretty much all dead. What’s worse is that the code base is massive and doesn’t follow modern code practices.
Wayland is different as there is no codebase. It is simply a set of standards that allow apps to connect to a desktop.
The X model:
App -> window manager -> X server -> hardware
The Wayland model:
App -> desktop -> hardware
This sounds like it wouldn’t be that big of improvement but unlike X Wayland is designed to take advantage of the modern GPU horse power. X was originally designed to run on UNIX mainframes so to make it run like it does took a bunch of Jacky work arounds.
You basically shouldn’t until you are forced to move. Almost all of the improvements so far are in the internal architecture.
You might notice some tiny differences if you switch, like logging in doesn’t show a black screen at any point, and window choosers when screen sharing show a (totally broken) grid of previews instead of a plain list of window titles.
Hopefully when X is fully dead (give it another 10 years) we’ll see some actual improvements, e.g. RDP-style remote desktop, good support for multi-monitor, HDR, HiDPI, etc.
I’m not sure if you have been paying attention but Wayland has come very far in the last year or two. It has XDG portals for screen sharing, HDR (early support), display scaling and plenty of other stuff.
@bleistift2 @addie Wayland will be the only display server, it’s impossible to deny it, for example KDE defaults to Wayland & Gnome is 100% detached from X11, the deletion of X11 is coming in the future
plus, X11 is full of spaghetti code and no one, and I mean no one, supports it anymore, Wayland came to correct that, plus if you have a laptop with a hybrid GPU, you must switch manually between for example Nvidia & Intel, on Wayland everything is done automatically, etcWayland isn’t a display server, it is a protocol. There is no source code for Wayland only a set of standards.
if you have a laptop with a hybrid GPU
That is something I really care about. Thanks!
[Edit: I just checked. Something is handling the switch automatically on my system]
Wayland is basically the direct successor to X11. It basically fixes tearing, makes HDR possible, makes scaling way better, and is all-round just better prepared for the future. I’ve been using it for years without much trouble. The only issues I keep having are scripts which expect x11-specific tools to be there, but that seems to be quickly solving itself while people realize that x11 is quickly loosing support. If you want to try it, I recommend setting up a fresh installation of a distro with KDE, Gnome, Sway, or Hyprland, just to make sure all the right dependencies are installed.
Wayland is nothing like X and definitely isn’t a successor
Wayland is basically the direct successor to X11
Being pedantic. Wayland is a replacement not a successor. It’s for those X does it, why not Wayland, situations.
native support for e-ink display and stylus input
Remembering my screen layout so I don’t have to manually switch after every boot?
UMU launcher integrated into Heroic Games Launcher
UWU launcher
Different scaling for different screens that are attached at the same time?
@Sunshine
More efficient software.Hopefully the distros integrate ollama or similar so users don’t have to think about it. And it all runs locally.
How about no. Users can install apps like Alpaca if they want AI. Right now there are zero Foss models anyway and there are many copyright issues.
Anything like that should absolutely be left up to the user. The distro should not decide that for you. If you want it, install it and set it up yourself.
I dont see any harm in including support for running models built into the distro and then providing easy access to a pre-selected list of models to use with that if the user wants.
Sure, I agree with that. But that should, at the very least, not be included in a general purpose distro aimed at beginners unless they offer it as a seperate download or something. I feel like this kind of thing should be a seperate edition of the distro or something for people who actually want it.
It’s already in the AUR. And someone could just set up a PPA for DEB-based distros.
