What are you most excited when it comes to linux in 2024?

It's the year of the Linux desktop! /s

But seriously, I think I'm going to buy a SteamDeck.

Nothing. Which is great: everything already works for me. Any improvements and extra market share is cool. But I'm vibing already.

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! :)

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

NVIDIA getting its shit together maybe?

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

Ps: isn't 'guys' gender nutral, similar to 'dude'?

I’d have to say I’m eager to see an official release of the rust cosmic desktop from system76. I know it’s going to be fairly bare bones and I know you can already download it and play around with it. I’m just excited for another option.

SDDM Wayland Greeter, to have 100% wayland on KDE

Nothing. 6.6.6 was already released.

I'm looking forward to Plasma 6

Seeing m$ lose a little more market share.

GIMP 3.0

Plasma 6 is at the absolute peak of the mountain for me, however I am incredibly excited about the Wayland improvements within Wine, that are slowly coming in

Plasma 6 for sure. I'm a Gnome user waiting with bated breath to see if it actually delivers the goods.

Always hoping for Nvidia to stop being bullshit. Definitely not buying from them again.

Probably true convergence between mobile and desktop, where your linux phone is powerful enough to be your only computing device. You would only need something like a lapdock (basically a laptop without the guts) and instead of a cable connecting the two, a slot maybe somewhere within the keyboard that your phone slips into. Maybe this exists already, I don't know.

2024 - The Year of The Linux Desktop!!!

BSODs

HDR playback

Better ARM and RISC-V support

bcachefs in mainline. It's going to be fun.

Cosmic for Pop.

Cosmic

Budgie 11 (idk if 2024)

VanillaOS 2

SteamOS 3 for desktop (idk when, they are probably waiting until the new open source nvidia driver is mature enough. Maybe they are waiting on wine running without xwayland too... idk

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

I am waiting for dynamic buffering and variabile refresh rate being both merged in mutter. Wine on Wayland is also pretty exciting.

Fully Mature Wayland implementation in Gnome.

Cosmic

Plasma 6

Native wine Wayland

Work in Cinnamon on Wayland, Plasma 6, XFCE 4.20 for Wayland support, WINE on Wayland, The Fancy Hyprland-like effects coming to Qtile Wayland, basically everything Wayland.

wine Wayland driver

Not much. Plasma 6 and any wayland improvements I guess. Apart from that maybe FSR 3 frame generation, but that's not linux specific.

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.

I want Proton to evolve to the point where my CAD/CAM software works flawlessly.

I'm trying to adapt to FreeCAD, but I have so much muscle memory invested in Rhino that it feels like being a beginner again.

Probably COSMIC. I'm also excited to maybe see HDR and improved tiling in GNOME.

Continued increase in Nix adoption. It seems like 2023 saw a real shift in favour of immutable solutions in general and Nix in particular.

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.

Nvidia Opensource Drivers, NVK etc with Wayland support, and bcachefs.

native wine under wayland ! :D

Finally, KDE is going back to having some nice bling after slowly removing it for years.

If now they can make kwin stable, I'd be so happy

Definitely COSMIC DE, can't wait to check out all the cool stuff they've been doing!

Cosmic DE definitely. HDR too

More NixOS!!!!

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

Kde plasma 6

I'm still pretty new to Linux so I'm finding new stuff all the time, I've been very happy with EndeavourOS but I am planning to switch to vanilla Arch when Plasma 6 fully drops. There are other distros that have caught my attention, they're just abit beyond my skill level currently.

Only thing I'm really hoping for is improvements to Nvidia (Yes I will buy AMD next time I get the chance, I built this PC before I had any intention of using Linux)

zfs raidz expansion

What's exciting about Plasma 6?

I'm a Plasma user, and I can't think of anything I want them to change.

Okay, it would be cool if there were more plasmoids. That's about it.

Oh I know this answer! Not using Windows, right?

As a GNOME user:

A lot of development is ongoing in GNOME thanks to the Sovereign Tech Fund. I’m curious what that will bring.

Also hoping that the proposed tiling functionality will be implemented.

I am waiting for Plasma 6 too. Maybe it will ship with Fedora 40 🤔

I hope so

And I am looking forward to Ubuntu server 24.04

If Fedora would stop requiring reboots for daily updates that would be great. I might as well use windows for this kind of BS

I'm looking forward to hardware and firmware hacking on a Framework laptop.

Better mainline support for RK3588 SoC

What Plasma 6 feature are you waiting for?

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.

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

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.

Nothing much really. MGLRU was finally added this year to fix long-standing kernel OOM issues. Maybe some TPM stuff in systemd from Lennart. Maybe the pace of immutables will increase but who knows. Despite the occasional regressions am pretty happy with Linux.

Hopefully Wayland support for polybar

Moving beyond linux mint to other distros so I can learn more and have a more customizable linux experience.

I got fed up with windows 10, and then windows 11 pushed me away from ever wanting to use windows again.
Linux mint has been fun but its a bit too barebones when it comes to customization ( though that's one of its strengths since its so easy and straightforward for a longtime windows user to move over to linux)

Also I've had a bunch of trouble with Nvidia drivers and playing new games in 2023, so I'll probably buy/build a new linux desktop in late 2024 on AMD CPU/GPU.

Hope Wayland gets more support and Fractional Scaling will finally work well.

Hoping to see Gnome make some progress on Mosaic Tiling. Also wish they'd bite the bullet already and implement a SSD fallback and go along with Hex color values and just choose named colors from there.

What's so special about plasma 6? Currently on plasma 5 and like it. Don't really know too much it can improve on besides reliability and the desktop being more usable and easy to use.

Freesync for Gnome

still a sucker for solus a little so i wanna see if they do the merge with serpent next year, if not, solus 4.5 would also be nice to see

Vanity license plates and the .6 patch. 😄

Vanity license plates! 😄

Oxygen² theme was promised around the release of plasma 6 so probably next year!

Apparently theres a "better wayland" already as is -- forgot its name now. I'd love to see it overcoming both wayland and Xorg.

Just using it like I've always been with as little change as possible.

Personally I'm excited to see Flatpak become more widespread and usable, fixing some "rough around the edges" aspects of it. I've been using it quite a bit this past few months and I think it presents a really coherent, simple vision for how to do package distribution that solves a lot of pain points. The sandboxing functionality is critical and easy to use, I don't need every app to have access to everything in my home directory.

What are women most excited for?

Ubuntu 24.04!

Nothing about 2024 excites me. I wish my attempt in July had succeeded.

Even in 2024, most guys are most excited about girls, not linux...