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What are you most excited when it comes to linux in 2024? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me it must be kde plasma 6 and the wayland driver for wine.

Edit: I made the question gendered by using the word guys. I've fixed my mistake.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What about bcachefs excites you? Like, what does it offer that ext4, Btrfs and zfs don't?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Initial benchmarks show better performance than btrfs (at least for some workloads), but more importanty, I like that it offers tiered/cache storage - so you can use a fast and small drive (NVMe) to speed up a slow and bigger drive (HDD). You can do that with ZFS as well of course, but it doesn't have the massive RAM requirements. Also it's much more easier to set up and configure in comparison.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's like btrfs, but faster, and less prone to data loss.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Btrfs is data loss prone? OpenSUSE Tumbleweed uses it as default, I assumed it was good enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thats why I'm still on trusty old ext4. Dunno if this is true but I dont want to risk data loss.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ext4 just went through a data loss fix in the kernel, too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Its got a closer feature set to ZFS (tiered storage is going to be huge for me personally), but a much friendlier license. ZFS's licensing drama solidly convinced me not to touch it with a ten meter pole. BTRFS isn't bad as well, I currently use it, but tiered storage is excellent. Was the only reason I used to consider ZFS, but becachefs is getting to have my cake and eat it too.