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The future of Linux (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 1 year ago by pmk@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I'm not proposing anything here, I'm curious what you all think of the future.

What is your vision for what you want Linux to be?

I often read about wanting a smooth desktop experience like on MacOS, or having all the hardware and applications supported like Windows, or the convenience of Google products (mail, cloud storage, docs), etc.

A few years ago people were talking about convergence of phone/desktop, i.e. you plug your phone into a big screen and keyboard and it's now your desktop computer. That's one vision. ChromeOS has its "everything is in the cloud" vision. Stallman has his vision where no matter what it is, the most important part is that it's free software.

If you could decide the future of personal computing, what would it be?

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[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

a small thing is that hardware will be linux focusef, such as removing the windows icon kn the super key

[-] tsallinia@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

We are the future already :)

[-] ExLisper@linux.community 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nothing special. Normal adoption of new standards, protocols and features and some new, easier ways to develops desktop apps for it.

For example let's say we want to add moving windows between phone and a desktop by swiping. It would be some new protocol and would be handled by DE on Linux and Android. Someone would develop the standard and different Linux app would add support for it. Exactly the same way we have bluetooth now.

[-] andruid@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Hyper convergence between phones, desktops, storage and networking. I think there has just been awesome progress in all of those fronts to the point that have a home server(s) that serves out the home wifi, shared storage, desktops (for gaming, school, and personal use) to the sharef human interfaces of choice. Even more so treat them as one giant multiuser machine, instead of a dozen separate devices.

[-] spiderman@ani.social 6 points 1 year ago

Better at gaming than now.

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[-] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

I don't like the migration to wayland when it is so woefully not ready to replace x11, terrible a11y, window embedding is still non existent, the window positioning seems like we might be getting is a watered down version that still wont be compatible with many apps.

Im not saying x11 is good, I am more then familiar with the multitude of x11 issues that are honestly a meme at this point. pretending like migrating to wayland will be this massive step forward is wrong however, it's a step to the side, just as broken, but different issues we can pick from.

x11 is broken by design, and wayland is designed to be broken

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[-] Maragato@eslemmy.es 6 points 1 year ago

El futuro de los pcs sera importante para Linux solo si los fabricantes de hardware apuestan por Linux o las leyes oblligan a publicar sus drivers como software libre. Mientras esto no suceda, veo dificil el futuro de Linux, al comprobar como la gente renuncia tan facilmente a su privacidad a cambio de la experiencia de usar windows, google,...

[-] 3arn0wl@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

FWIW I'm still very much an advocate of the Mark Shuttleworth Convergence vision. It's the Holy Grail that makes sense to me.

[-] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I want it to be accessible enough that people can realistically use it as a transition from mobile to PC

[-] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I just want it to become more popular and easy to use while remaining free (like to buy, hot take I know) and libre.

I want it to be something I can endorse to all my friends, even the friends that almost never use computers and barely know what a filesystem is

my hope is that after this point of it being popular and accessable, FOSS principles will start to gain more traction in spaces like mobile phones and car head units. there will always be proprietary OS's and software, but in my ideal world FOSS is at least an equal competitor, not just a a niche thing that only super involved computer people get into

[-] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I couldn’t find a single gui resource monitor on xcfe that I wouldn’t have to build from source.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

FEX-emu / box86 / qemu-user let ARM machines run x86 binaries with minimal hassle.

I want a future where platforms matter about as much as image formats. Some will be better. Some will be worse. Some will be closer to what your setup expects. But the idea your system won't open it, at all, is absurd.

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[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly Linux should keep going in it's direction (standardization) and hopefully software support will get better over time.

[-] broface@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I'd be happy with the destruction of copyright and patent laws.

[-] PlexSheep@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

I think stability is a huge factor. Just yesterday, my laptop shit off without any forewarning. There is still too much random issues that seemingly have no reason.

[-] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 4 points 1 year ago

I'd settle for Microsoft 365 offline apps + trouble free miracast

[-] vvvvv@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

A few years ago people were talking about convergence of phone/desktop, i.e. you plug your phone into a big screen and keyboard and it’s now your desktop computer.

Mobile apps are shit for that. Sure, my phone is powerful enough to browse internet, play video and music but on desktop with mouse/kb it's just weird and funky. And I'm not even talking about any productivity software which is straight impossible.

[-] wischi@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Linux is way to fragmented and without a great dominating distro it will never. Waymand, Ubuntu, Mint, Gnome, KDE, WTF, Users don't fucking care about that jargon. Most Window users don't even know the name of the browser they are using or that "the internet app" is even called "browser".

A few weeks ago I updated Ubuntu from 22 to 23 on my home media center. First tried the Updates App because why not just press a single fucking button like on windows or mac. No - no major updates there. Open a console, apt update and upgrade the hell out of everything, update the package sources with some shady regex command I copy pasted from some random forum, update upgrade again dist-upgrade WTF. After everything was done the layout of the info area (network, wifi, etc) was fucked up. Read some only shit about gnome shell extensions, themens, nothing made sense, force reinstalled the gome shell - worked again.

And somebody expects that "typical" users to do that don't even know what Windows Version they are running - sure.

[-] glasgitarrewelt@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I hope selfhosting becomes even more convenient. It already is for tech savy people, but I mean 'buy a Pi and press a button'-easy. It would take away the power of so many big companies.

[-] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I just want ubiquitous Libreboot support along with more FOSS drivers

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