I want the ability to play all my steam, gog, origin and play natively, all this in a nice shiny cool looking desktop.
bonus if they add android app support
This, waydroid is excellent, I use it all the time
HDR
You could use game scope if I remember correctly
You need the game scope session, which there’s only a package for Nobara and I think Arch too but don’t quote me on that
And the session will require you to log out, which can be a massive pain in the ass.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/gamescope#status-of-gamescope-packages and i can conform on my fedora laptop it is there avalible in the repos to. I don’t have a HDR display if you don’t count in my phone.
bspwm - i do miss alt-tab from time to time.
I know there is a few sxkhd entries that sort of mimics it, but I miss something like gnome or cinnamon alt-tab
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 better “desktop as an IDE” experience would be killer to me too. Even if it’s not for everyone, I think as an accelerator for FOSS designers of Linux desktop apps it would be cool
Maybe Arcan will be a thing to experiment with.
How is the GNOME app called? I’m asking for a school project
@visnudeva perhaps look into the EndeavorOS Sway community edition. It’s pretty sweet!
Yeah, I tried Hyprland but never really felt alright coming from KDE because I don’t have the skill learning all config apps like eww or wayfire Panel etc.
A community workshop thing like KDE does would be even more awesome.
Keep an eye on Pop’s Cosmic desktop. Even the current customized gnome version is a nice tiling DE.
This with Nvidia support :(
Have look at nwg https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-shell
I want the cube back.
I don’t think it ever left
But but Compiz and burning windows and cube… The times are not the same.
Here it goes. The cube one was posted above. https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows
There’s wayfire
KDE still has it
Yes, along with wobbly and exploding windows!
It never left, you can still use Compiz!
The what
Nice
Notice how none of these replies are “AI assistant”?
“AI assistant” just seems like a euphemism for “increased tracking”.
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Imagine a standardized API where you provide either your own LLM running locally, your own LLM running in your server (for enthusiasts or companies), or a 3rd party LLM service over the Internet, for your optional AI assistant that you can easily disable.
Regardless of your DE, you could choose if you want an AI assistant and where you want the model to run.
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Check out koboldAI and koboldassistabt projects. That’s Litterally the thing you are describing and is Open source
I’ve had this idea for a long time now, but I don’t know shit about LLMs. GPT can be run locally though, so I guess only the API part is needed.
I’ve run LLMs locally before, it’s the unified API for digital assistants that would be interesting to me. Then we’d just need an easy way to acquire LLMs that laymen could use, but probably any bigger DE or distro can create a setup wizard.
Not just hypothetically but practically too. A foss program called koboldai let’s you run LLMs locally on your computer and a project that takes advantage of this is the koboldassistant project. You can essentially make your own Alexa,Cortana,Siri whatever that doesn’t collect your data and belongs to you
Yeah. I’m really annoyed by this trend of having programs that could function offline require connecting to a server.
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What if it’s a friendly purple gorilla
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.
To be fair, in 2005 a lot of people dreamed of “mini portable computers that could fit in their hands”. They just didn’t associate it to the form created with smartphones, and when the smartphones came to be, people were amazed by it. I don’t see the same level of reception when it comes to AI assistants.
faster flip phones
I don’t think speed was a complaint anyone had about phones right before smartphones launched.
People were mostly concerned with cell phone plans. Talking used to be charged by the minute, texting was charged per text, and data was practically non-existent.
Cell phones have come a long way, but I think a lot of people take for granted just how much cell service has improved. I pay $25/month for a single line that gives me unlimited talk, text, and data (Visible). Couldn’t be happier.
I pay $25/month for a single line that gives me unlimited talk, text, and data (Visible). Couldn’t be happier.
cries in Canadian
Would be a cool feature if it could be leveraged in a secure, private, efficient way that was more useful than 99% of the algorithmic monkey typewriter garbage that’s on the market these days. I don’t need a glorified Cleverbot rifling through my unspeakables.
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Desktop per monitor.
Explain
I think it’s a feature of some tilling window managers that allow to put each virtual desktop assigned to each different monitors. So instead of the normal thing where when connecting an external monitor it extends the area of the virtual desktop, you could have the virtual 1 on the laptop monitor and the external with the desktop 2, so you could easily switch desktops that could have different windows, for example changing laptop monitor to virtual desktop 3 and keep external monitor with desktop 2.
I’ve never used it, but after hearing about this for the first time some time ago it made so much fucking sense compared to the chaotic way that normal window managers behave that I really want to experiment with it.
Assuming that I’m describing this correctly.
Thats the reasson i use hyprland at work Gnome, cinnemon and kde are really nice but monitor independent virtuall desktops is a must for me
Yeah - this is what I meant. One virtual desktop per physical monitor.
I used to have it on a forked version of Openbox, but then I lost the binary and it doesn’t compile anymore. If just makes much more sense to me and makes window management just a little easier. Especially when apps get confused about which monitor they’re supposed to start on or try to be on both in an unhelpful way.
Well to wayland work with nvidia
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.
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
I wasn’t sure what to call it either. I’m not a subscription fan either…
That’s actually on the way with Plasma 6…
Trackpad gestures, KDE (like 3 finger swipes customisation). THEM TO STOP MOVING AROUND THE SETTINGS.
You can install touchegg to customise touchpad gestures, I learnt it because I also needed it!
for them to admit that wayland is just not ready. Get feature parity first, then switch.
I use Wayland on the daily and don’t have any issues with it. What problems are you having?
it crashes daily (I have nvidia, true, but so do the majority of people, so i expect it to work before being forced on me). As a user, I do not give a fuck whose fault that is, (LOTS of fingerpointing going on there) but if it’s not stable, then don’t force the switch to it yet.
Does it have soome new features? Yes it does, but what really affected me is the features that are removed, by design. Some apps don’t work properly on wayland because it does not allow them to do what they need. And if you complain that something does not work, you’ll be told that you don’t need it and you will like it.
Also, far too much stuff is “not wayland’s responsibility”. Which means that one cannot just write an app for wayland, but rather for kde on wayland, or for gnome on wayland, etc. So if, as a dev you ask, for example, “how do I take a screenshot on wayland” you get the response “that is not something wayland does, check your de, compositor, one of the bunch of incompatible implementations”, for functionality that had been seamlessly available and taken for granted on every single os I tried (including linux, with x).
And I hate being told you can’t do that because it’s not secure. It’s my machine running my code. Stop forcibly protecting me from myself. Turn some functionality off by default? that’s fine. cater to the average user. Promising to never implement the functionality because I might hurt myself if I don’t know what I’m doing in not ok
X is not ready. I am running X and it doesn’t do vsync properly on the desktop or browser
