Linux

XFCE with polish/feature parity of Gnome (with Dash-to-panel), and Wayland support.

Wayland support. I use Cinnamon

Well to wayland work with nvidia

Actual proper touch support, which includes a decent built-in keyboard (looking at you KDE...).

I love 2-in-1's, but I do wish touch support would go all the way. It's like... 70-80% there, with Gnome having a good keyboard and KDE having the better touch support overall. But it just needs to go the final stretch to make it a good experience.

KDE with GNOME design or GNOME with KDE functionality.

Consistency between all elements, apps and other things.

Dunno, KDE Plasma has it all. I would not mind some design improvements, but that is what Plasma 6 will bring. I just need to wait :)

Tabbed windows like Haiku has. I love that feature so much but I've only ever seen it on tiling WMs on Linux

Just install it and not have to care about anything system related. Just keep out of my way and let me do what I need to do. Linux, Windows, MacOS, the operating system should not be an end, but a mean.

If you need to update, just do it and don't bother me. I plug something, just show it to me. Something is proprietary? I don't care, just want it to work...

All the Wayland stuff related to gaming in GNOME.

Better trackpad support on KDE on Wayland. I use multi-finger gestures all the time on my MacBook, and my System76 laptop supports them on Windows, but the only gesture that works on Linux is two-finger scrolling.

Configurable touchpad gestures on Plasma. And a non-nonsense gesture to open the overview effect (waiting for Plasma 6, already done :)

As a new linux user, I would like KDE to fix their trackpad gestures because they suck. Please copy Windows or macOS. And I want fractional scaling in GNOME without everything looking blurry.

Working Screensharing from first boot lmao

Well this isn't a DE thing but I would like good ray tracing and the new frame gen support for my AMD GPU.

I'm on a tiling WM. If I want a specific feature, I make it happen.

Why's there an AI image attached to this question?

a better on screen keyboard for gnome

• wayland on xfce & cinnamon
• not exactly DE, but wayland greeter on sddm

I'm just mostly waiting for Plasma 6 so I can use all the Wayland goodies it comes with.

Another thing I'm looking forward to is Wine-Wayland to be ready.

Ability to run Android apps.

In KDE, proper secrets handling.

I want to be able to see true integration between Apps and the WM. I saw a lot of good stuff with the way that Instant Messengers, Downloaders and IRC clients and various accounts could be made part of the normal interface. Now everything is web apps, or worse, Web Desktop Apps, which is also a big huge Electron apps that are more Isolated from each other than ever.

The only things apps share today are notifications, and I could definitely have less of those.

Trackpad gestures, KDE (like 3 finger swipes customisation). THEM TO STOP MOVING AROUND THE SETTINGS.

Desktop per monitor.

Better support for gaming laptops with both igpu and dedicated gpus like in windows so that I can stop having to reboot when I want to go from portable mode to gaming mode