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The future of Linux (lemmy.sdf.org)
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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?

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[–] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.