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What are some exciting projects that you follow and hope to see progress on?

I'll start!

  • Wayland greeter on SDDM
  • rust support on gcc
  • more Wayland adoption (especially VSCodium & Firefox forks)
  • Reproducible Build
  • ReactOS
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[–] the_q@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

This one is really close!

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[–] anyone_yun@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 years ago

NVK drivers for nvidia GPUs

[–] rastilin@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago (5 children)

More nixOS development. It's the reproducible builds on the OS scale, one configuration file that will always generate exactly the same system when run, and you can update and rebuild from that file without restarting the system in most cases. This should make triangulating and fixing distro issues much easier, as well as making a distro easier to maintain from the user side.

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[–] hottari@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • I don't realistically expect to see any progress here but video hardware acceleration gaining first-class support in popular applications would be a nice dream. The one area Linux is complacent to be "inefficient".
  • One of the KDE devs has been working on some magic that might keep application state even after the desktop crashes.
  • Chimera Linux.
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[–] binboupan@lemmy.kagura.eu 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wayland on Plasma (sure, it works but still work in progress)
Lapce (like vscode but native)
Proper keyboard and screen sharing for Wayland

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] starman@programming.dev 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Helix editor, especially plugin system

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[–] BitPirate@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)
  • bcachefs
  • the EEVDF scheduler
[–] rastilin@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

Bcachefs sounds incredible.

[–] nicman24@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it sucks that bcachefs cannot be run as a dkms as it cannot be run as a module (only built-in)

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It is coming in 6.7, I think. What are the advantages of bcachefs over something like ext4 or btrfs?

[–] trougnouf@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

All the advantages of btrfs + the ability to combine SSDs and HDDs in a way that maximizes speed and space.

[–] PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Isn't that what I'm already doing with standard bcache + btrfs?

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[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

I'd love to see more work on Nvidia for wayland

[–] squid@feddit.uk 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oculus on Linux, but thats a slow project

[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I just bought a Valve Index instead. Better tracking anyways with lasers now.

[–] MultipleAnimals@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] ultra@feddit.ro 8 points 2 years ago

Bcachefs getting merged in the kernel

[–] DarthSpot@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Polonium - autotiling for KDE 5.27. Ever since KDE Plasma broke Bismuth on wayland, i've been running with bare Plasma. Polonium is the first project to work (mostly) as Bismuth used to, although it's just one developer working on it as far as i understood and it still has a bunch of bugs. But really looks promising.

Also, KDE 6 (which will break everything again probably) :D

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[–] Certainity45@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago
  • System76 Virgo
  • CosmicDE
  • Wayland in general
[–] DARbarian@artemis.camp 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A Synergy/Barrier/Input-Leap for Wayland

[–] nielsdg@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Note that Input Leap will be supported on a Wayland session in GNOME 45 / Fedora 39 thanks to the new InputCapture portal and Peter Hutterer's libei work.

Barrier seems to be dead upstream and Synergy is closed source though, so those 2 probably won't get updated soon

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[–] wallmenis@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

VSCodium has a Wayland version already. On firefox, you have to enable it if it doesn't do it by default.

The rest are the same with yours but add wayland allow tearing support for better latency in videogames.

[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

I should add this is for Flatpak apps!

[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Pretty niche, but:
https://github.com/canboat/canboat

Allows me to interface a PC to a canbus in an efficient manner. I wrote an autopilot in perl using that, but I would like to see the project mature to the point where it is stable enough for production environments.

[–] freijon@feddit.ch 5 points 2 years ago

Apart from what's already been mentioned, I'm eager to test Spacedrive

[–] thayer@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
  • Rpm-ostree: more robust apply-live updates; local rpm package upgrades without needing to remove previous versions first
  • Thunderbird/K-9 Mail: continued work on modernizing the UI and features of both desktop and mobile versions
  • GNOME: smoother animations and increased performance for low-end GPUs and IGPs (triple buffering implementation, etc.)
  • Firefox Mobile: site isolation
[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mundane stuff for the most part.

  1. New releases for Alpine and Void.
  2. Newer packages being added to Void.
  3. Hoping for a Black Friday sale at Racknerd.
  4. Bug fixes to Node-Red.
  5. Flexible scaling of storage in ZFS.
[–] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I haven't tried it personally but I found the link somewhere https://racknerd.com/blackfriday

I thought about going with them but I chose Hetzner instead.

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[–] dmrzl@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago
[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Winlator. Being able to run Windows games via kISS is gonna make sbcs much more usable.

[–] Andy@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago
[–] SamboT@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

New season of One Punch Man

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