Notice how none of these replies are “AI assistant”?
To be fair - people don’t know what they want until they get it. In 2005 people would’ve asked for faster flip phones, not smartphones.
I don’t have much faith in current gen AI assistants actually being useful though, but the fact that no one has asked for it doesn’t necessarily mean much.
“AI assistant” just seems like a euphemism for “increased tracking”.
Open source locally run LLM that runs on GPU or dedicated PCIe open hardware that doesn’t touch the cloud…
Remote desktop working like it does in windows.
- easy to setup and use
- can remote into a system that has been recently rebooted. Without needing to make the user auto login and set the keychain password to be blank.
- resolution scales to remote client interface
I love linux and it is really all I use but RDP support is severly worse than windows.
KDE with GNOME design or GNOME with KDE functionality.
Consistency between all elements, apps and other things.
Driver manager like the one on windows and ability to install driver with just inf files, so I can install windows driver on Linux
Better Wayland support across the board, but also more Wayland compositors and window managers from which to choose. I’d make my own but I know so very little about Wayland right now and it would take me a while to learn.
Also, I have always wanted desktop environments to be more like Emacs, i.e. to be fully programmable in a Lisp language like Common Lisp or Scheme, where you can just whip-up a GUI app for anything you want in a few minutes with a few lines of code. Operating systems like that existed back in the 1970s and 80s, but went extinct when Windows and Macintosh took over everything, which were never designed to be programmable by end users. It sucks because there hasn’t been anything like it ever since.
To see what I am talking about, check out the historical preservation projects for Lisp Machines like the InterLisp Medley desktop environment or the CADR ZMacs editor.
A more polished wayland with plasma 6 :)
Ctrl + alt + shift + meta + L hotkey to open LinkedIn
Is this a joke?
Yes
What a relief. What I was dreading was that it was parody and M$ had added this to Windows 11.
Basically competent support for hardware for laptops newer than 2014. Proper thunderbolt, displaylink, trackpad, fingerprint reader, facial rec support.
You want open firmware, so this is not a DE problem.
oh no fucking ai “art”
Open source AI assistant in GNOME… that can generate “art”…
…so I can generate images of Elon Musk getting mistreated at the workplace as a programmer…
…for reasons…
Seamless transition from X to Wayland
For that to work Wayland has to be just as broken as x
XFCE with polish/feature parity of Gnome (with Dash-to-panel), and Wayland support.
AFAIK Wayland support is in the pipeline
Yeah maybe it’ll be ready by 2030 lol. I don’t know why XFCE development is so incredibly slow
Gnome has at least some payed developers at IBM / Ubuntu. (unless IBM/Red Hat fired them, yet?)
KDE has a big community, and there is some sponsoring happening from Valve (!).
Xfce, to the best of my knowledge, has no full time developer.
The tiling concept that was shown off some time ago for GNOME looks amazing
Homie, they’re working on that… but, there are extensions :>
HDR
Why does everyone like it so much?
I’d tell you… if I had it!
I just hope GNOME’s developers would stop being so insufferable. Lots of Wayland extensions and FreeDesktop portals unimplemented on GNOME because of the developers’ stubbornness. These also adversely affect to other DEs and WMs and Wayland’s evolution itself because other DEs would have less reasons to support a standard if one of the largest DEs themselves don’t support it.
I really love GNOME because it’s polished, but if KDE would be just as polished I will immediately switch. I know KDE works really hard to make the DE and the apps in general as polished and modern as possible, but I can’t still help but feel better at GNOME.
One example is the color scheming protocol by FreeDesktop. You can now make your apps look greenish or purplish or whatever color you want regardless of the toolkit they’re made with. Right? Well no, because the insufferable GNOME developers keep blocking the proposal because they want the colors to be hardcoded by the DE. They were offered a compromise where a DE can just offer a limited, curated color picker to the user when they go to the theming settings and allow any arbitrary color hidden behind commands, but the insufferable GNOME developers said no. And the proposal, last time I heard, is still stalled because of GNOME.
I think the reason Gnome is good is the same thing that makes them insufferable. They believe there is a right way to do things, sometimes those are things you like, sometimes they aren’t.
A locally run, self hosted AI assistant that can do everything ChatGPT can do, where you have control and ownership of the model and can mix with open models that are updated automatically, - and a mechanism where it can be instructed to design widgets as well as other simple desktop features that adhere to system wide privacy and security policies on request…
…yes.
