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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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What feature are you dying for to come to your DE - Linux? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Desktop as a service. With the latest feature being worked where apps can be handed off to another compositor, I want the next stage where my compositor and desktop can be swapped with my intervention or notice. Wanna do redundancy? Running the backup live as a hot swap. Wanna do live updates with no interruption? Start the next compositor, try and loads the apps, if nothing breaks, swap the user, if the user doesn't hit the notification to revert kill the last session.

Add in better remote compositor support and it can get really cool. Allowing for a distributed DE across your devices. Making high availability more possible as well, but that might actually be overkill.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

read "as a service" and was immediately turned off tbh.

edit: as in that phrase immediately conjures up thoughts of subscriptions. Might want to call it something more appealing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wasn't sure what to call it either. I'm not a subscription fan either...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's actually on the way with Plasma 6...