For me it must be kde plasma 6 and the wayland driver for wine.
Edit: I made the question gendered by using the word guys. I’ve fixed my mistake.
It’s the year of the Linux desktop! /s
But seriously, I think I’m going to buy a SteamDeck.
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Just got a steam deck and love it. I also got the official dock and can’t believe how bad it is. I have to unplug it and my TV half the time to get the dock to connect correctly. It works fine for a few days, then stops. I’ve had picture issues and audio issues and even issues with the deck right after disconnecting it.
Yeah, same issues. I bought my dock during the summer steam sale and didn’t use it much, but now that I’'ve tried using it more I feel like I want to send it back and get a refund, but it might be too late. I keep hoping the issues will get fixed with firmware updates, but so far they haven’t.
Awesome. Thanks!
I completely agree. I bought one in the preorder days and was a bit nervous. It came in, and it was so much better than I thought. It works and it works well, and is fun to use. I’ve connected to a tv and done “real” work on it to boot. It is some hardware I highly recommend to anyone if they can afford it. The other cool thing is my whole library of steam games are there and still playable.
I swear I’ll too this 2024 hopefully a newer release doesn’t appear all of sudden (like just the Retro is Pocket 4 and 4 Pro happened right now, at least for me).
I’ve been considering this too. I don’t have much time at all to game but feel like maybe I’d do better with a portable than can stream to a TV.
I need to search up if they support all games or just those that have been ported. Surely it’s more than what has been ported to Linux…
But my mouse and keyboard, hmm
Nothing. Which is great: everything already works for me. Any improvements and extra market share is cool. But I’m vibing already.
More Wayland adoption, more protocols and desktop portals, color management and HDR getting closer, even better gaming
NVIDIA getting its shit together maybe?
NVIDIA getting its shit together maybe?
That truly would be the year of the linux desktop
I think the teams that are responsible for bringing proper HDR support are moving slow and waiting for HDR to get its shit together, as right now it’s a poorly standardized dumpster fire of various protocols and definitions and implementations. It’s still a bit of a pain in windows and macos despite the fact that official support exists already.
NVIDIA getting its shit together maybe?
Given the recent pace of NVK development we probably won’t have to rely on that for much longer in 2024.
It’s amazing that Linux gaming is becoming a thing that’s better sometimes than Windows gaming (minus the getting banned part in some games). I also like that AMD is making some big pushes on open source drivers, plus their ROCm open-source alternative to CUDA.
This is a great time for Linux users! :)
I just ROCm was built in to mesa. Because either you use the proprietary drivers that have some issues, or use mesa and fight with everything (amf, ROCm) to try and get it working.
I’d have to say I’m eager to see an official release of the rust cosmic desktop from system76. I know it’s going to be fairly bare bones and I know you can already download it and play around with it. I’m just excited for another option.
Ps: isn’t ‘guys’ gender nutral, similar to ‘dude’?
Dude!
What about dudette? /s
I’m Tom Dudette, and I’ll leave the light on for ya. (guitar outro…)
Plasma 6 is at the absolute peak of the mountain for me, however I am incredibly excited about the Wayland improvements within Wine, that are slowly coming in
What are you most excited for in Plasma 6?
Consistency. Both visual, and internal logic. Cleanup of dead code, and migrations to uniform new systems
GIMP 3.0
Is this actually happening in this decade?
Seeing m$ lose a little more market share.
SDDM Wayland Greeter, to have 100% wayland on KDE
I’m looking forward to Plasma 6
2024 - The Year of The Linux Desktop!!!
Cosmic
Budgie 11 (idk if 2024)
VanillaOS 2
SteamOS 3 for desktop (idk when, they are probably waiting until the new open source nvidia driver is mature enough. Maybe they are waiting on wine running without xwayland too… idk
Fully Mature Wayland implementation in Gnome.
Better ARM and RISC-V support
