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?

broface,

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

kittenzrulz123,

Honestly Linux should keep going in it’s direction (standardization) and hopefully software support will get better over time.

vvvvv,

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.

Mobile apps are shit for that. Sure, my phone is powerful enough to browse internet, play video and music but on desktop with mouse/kb it’s just weird and funky. And I’m not even talking about any productivity software which is straight impossible.

dutchkimble,

I’d settle for Microsoft 365 offline apps + trouble free miracast

mindbleach,

FEX-emu / box86 / qemu-user let ARM machines run x86 binaries with minimal hassle.

I want a future where platforms matter about as much as image formats. Some will be better. Some will be worse. Some will be closer to what your setup expects. But the idea your system won’t open it, at all, is absurd.

backhdlp,
@backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

If the platform doesn’t support transparency, I’m not using it!

PlexSheep,
@PlexSheep@feddit.de avatar

I think stability is a huge factor. Just yesterday, my laptop shit off without any forewarning. There is still too much random issues that seemingly have no reason.

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
glasgitarrewelt,

I hope selfhosting becomes even more convenient. It already is for tech savy people, but I mean ‘buy a Pi and press a button’-easy. It would take away the power of so many big companies.

MigratingtoLemmy,

I just want ubiquitous Libreboot support along with more FOSS drivers

ndsvw,
@ndsvw@feddit.de avatar

The future? Chrome… Chrome everywhere… Forgive me this Spongebob joke

wischi,

Linux is way to fragmented and without a great dominating distro it will never. Waymand, Ubuntu, Mint, Gnome, KDE, WTF, Users don’t fucking care about that jargon. Most Window users don’t even know the name of the browser they are using or that “the internet app” is even called “browser”.

A few weeks ago I updated Ubuntu from 22 to 23 on my home media center. First tried the Updates App because why not just press a single fucking button like on windows or mac. No - no major updates there. Open a console, apt update and upgrade the hell out of everything, update the package sources with some shady regex command I copy pasted from some random forum, update upgrade again dist-upgrade WTF. After everything was done the layout of the info area (network, wifi, etc) was fucked up. Read some only shit about gnome shell extensions, themens, nothing made sense, force reinstalled the gome shell - worked again.

And somebody expects that “typical” users to do that don’t even know what Windows Version they are running - sure.

yesdogishere,

linux has to start a new OS from the ground up. Go back to command line and PC-DOC days. Everything must be controllable at a basic level. Shove MS and Apple out the door. Nobody wants their adware and virus bloated shit any longer.

lyth,

How basic are we talking? You can already tear out the desktop environment if that’s important to you

MayonnaiseArch,
@MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org avatar

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

csolisr,

I expect to see distros that use Flatpak as its exclusive package manager, even for the bare-metal, in the near future. Also, Linux as a remote desktop on the cloud will probably be attempted at a larger scale, given that Windows 12 is rumored to try that route.

samuelc,
@samuelc@lemmy.world avatar

Flatpak are still not designed to run clis so that’s a long way to go at least

(would love to be proven wring because I’d love to not have to ship deb and rpm for the OSS projects I take care of)

intrepid,

I really don’t want Linux to be a remote desktop on the cloud. That’s already possible easily with Linux. But OS as a service is another attempt by companies like MS to pry the control of the system and data away from their customers. Worst of all, we have to pay a monthly subscription even after we buy hardware. To put it simply, it’s rent seeking. Linux on the other hand, is good at making the best of even mediocre or low-end hardware.

TheHolyT,

my view for linux is basically macos but FOSS, my dream system would be a fully immutable install with secure boot and fully verified root on boot it would most likely use gnome and wayland and the only way to install programs will flatpak, there wont be a package manager it will instead be an image-based OS with everything needed preinstalled(amd,intel,nvidia drivers etc) if anyone is interested in developing something like this hit me up

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