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
  • hottari@lemmy.ml
    151·
    1 year ago
    • 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.
  • binboupan@lemmy.kagura.eu
    111·
    1 year ago

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

  • rastilin@kbin.social
    71·
    1 year ago

    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.

      • rastilin@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yes, and every package specifically defines the exact version of its libraries that it needs and the system symlinks everything together package by package, so there’s no chance than an update will break something further upstream. The configuration file also controls things like MySQL configuration and user permissions so you can get literally the exact same system. I think even docker doesn’t control for library versions with its regular configuration.

        EDIT: And it keeps older versions of the configuration file and its symlink arrangement around, so if something goes wrong, you can reboot the machine and select an older version from the bootloader.

      • TheEntity@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Better than Docker in terms of reproducibility. While Docker containers are usually more or less reproducible, Docker images are not as the Dockerfiles depend on lots of external state such as the repositories of the distro used as a base image. This is also partially true for NixOS, but it’s far more realistic to pin a version of nixpkgs (the Nix(OS) repository) than do the same with Debian repositories. The new Flake format even provides a way to pin nixpkgs by default.

  • vettnerk@lemmy.ml
    6·
    1 year 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.

  • DarthSpot@feddit.de
    5·
    1 year ago

    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