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What Would You Like To See Improved in GNU/Linux? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by lofenyy@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Hey guys, I'm just an ordinary dev looking for something to work on. While messing around with my hobby projects, I couldn't help but notice that under the surface, there are a lot of places that the libre desktop can be improved. I'd like to take on your suggestions on what I should seriously consider working on and helping out with.

Thanks for any comments and suggestions.

(For those wondering, I'm still working on my other stuff.)

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[–] yuki2501@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Hardware support, in particular:

  • Better support for dual monitor setups (at first this was niche, but the ubiquity of laptops has changed this)
  • Improved graphics cards support (curse you, nVidia)
  • Better ARM and RISC-V support
[–] AlijahTheMediocre@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

The Arm support is there, its just not upstreamed because companies don't like sharing

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 10 months ago

ARM and RISC-V not hardware that is auto-discoverable. It's the hardware not the software that is the problem.

[–] averyfalken@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So I legit rub in to no issues on my 3 monitor setup on Linux what issues do you run into out of curiosity.

[–] yuki2501@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

The latest updates (a few days ago) made my distro crash on the SDDM login screen (I'm using a KVM switch, I can confirm this is a KVM switch issue). I could work around it by doing autologin, but it's disheartening that I had to do it.