The future of Linux

I’m not proposing anything here, I’m curious what you all think of the future.

What is your vision for what you want Linux to be?

I often read about wanting a smooth desktop experience like on MacOS, or having all the hardware and applications supported like Windows, or the convenience of Google products (mail, cloud storage, docs), etc.

A few years ago people were talking about convergence of phone/desktop, i.e. you plug your phone into a big screen and keyboard and it’s now your desktop computer. That’s one vision. ChromeOS has its “everything is in the cloud” vision. Stallman has his vision where no matter what it is, the most important part is that it’s free software.

If you could decide the future of personal computing, what would it be?

Eryn6844,

I hope the joy and knowledge and freedom our for-bearers had is what we will continue to reap in the future. there will be challenges, but we will prevail.

SapphironZA, (edited )

I wish distro’s would combine efforts much more so we have a better desktop experience. Do we really need 15 window managers when we could have 2 or 3 much better ones.

Unify to a single package manager, they are all functionally the same.

Standardize on flatpacks and abandon snaps and appimage

tar_xf,

I like the option to pick different package managers but it would behoove the community to actually settle on a package format. Making a deb or rpm are very different processes and while containers are nice for server side stuff I wish there was something easier for desktop

flashgnash,

Nix might be what you want. Haven’t tried out the package manager on a non-nixos distro but it can be done

Massive package library, everything installs the same way and I believe it’ll run on any distro

I hear the aur is very good as well but I believe that’s arch only

SapphironZA,

The fact that the processes are so different, is part of the problem. Developers need to spend the same effort 3 or 4 times.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

I wish distro’s would combine efforts much more so we have a better desktop experience. Do we really need 15 window managers when we could have 2 or 3 much better ones.

What is it when almost all window managers have moved or are moving to wlroots? KWin and Mutter are exceptions because they predate wlroots.

q47tx,
@q47tx@lemmy.world avatar

Appimages serve a different purpose than packages that you install.

SapphironZA,

I get that, but in functionally they are so similar from an end user perspective, I would argue their development efforts should be combined.

PR_freak,

The future of PCs in general is tied to professionals and gamers, there is no need for a pc anymore in an household who is not anything of the above

Which means that the average PC user will become more and more tech savy, this is the only thing that could raise the Linux market share

On the other hand I don’t see a single chance of linux becoming relevant in personal computing unless a big corporation decides to offer an experience that is/has:

  • A polieshed UI, something eye-pleasing like MacOs
  • Noob friendly in the sense that it offers a 100% TRUE terminal-free experience
  • Reliable across hardware of any kind, the average user doesn’t want to worry about graphic or wifi drivers. Heck the average user doesn’t even know what a driver is
  • Not buggy
  • An easy way to install any software they need, today’s program coverage in various software centers often doesn’t fulfill the needs of the average user
MayonnaiseArch,
@MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org avatar

An immutable distro with working gpu passthrough for vms (or whatvere that’s called). That’s the dream

broface,

I’d be happy with the destruction of copyright and patent laws.

flashgnash,

I like that it’s kind of the wild west, there’s no single way to do anything and you’re sort of on your own with it, which also means you’re free to do whatever you want with it.

Choose what software you do or don’t want, delete important system files if you really want to, break stuff and be allowed to fix it yourself rather than a company telling you what you can and can’t do with your own computer

As long as it stays like that it’s good how it is

More of the few games remaining that don’t run on Linux via proton making the slightest effort to support it would be nice though

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