Linux

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

GIMP 3.0

Seeing m$ lose a little more market share.

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.

2024 - The Year of The Linux Desktop!!!

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.

BSODs

HDR playback

Better ARM and RISC-V support

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

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

Fully Mature Wayland implementation in Gnome.

Cosmic

Plasma 6

Native wine 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.

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.

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

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

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

native wine under wayland ! :D

Cosmic DE definitely. HDR too

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.