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’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
I already have the LCD, but the OLED has me seriously considering retiring it far earlier than I usually do with my electronics.
I’ve had a gaming laptop for years but I think I did more gaming on the deck in the first six months than I ever did on my laptop. The suspend mid-game, actually using it away from a power plug…
The Deck announcement made me try linux on my desktop again, too, just to see if Valve’s claims about proton could be true… And I have yet to boot back into windows.
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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).
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?
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They just broke xwayland on my gpu so i’ve been forced to return to x11, bit of a backwards move
Gosh, NVIDIA literally pays just one guy to do the entire Linux support
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.
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.
SDDM Wayland Greeter, to have 100% wayland on KDE
I’m currently using greetd-tui but I would instantly switch over to sddm if the Wayland session actually works. (I use hyprland as my window manager )
Ps: isn’t ‘guys’ gender nutral, similar to ‘dude’?
What about dudette? /s
The classical answer to a male is: do you sleep with guys?
I don’t remember the grammatical names, but there’s a difference between using “guys” in your phrase and the way it’s used in the title. So it can be gender neutral depending on context.
The same as in “All men are equal”, and “Do you like men or women?”.
I guess having to explain this is a good enough reason to avoid this allegedly gender-neutral word in gender-neutral contexts
Only for people that did not made through elementary school.
Do you include in this group everyone with English as a foreign language like me?
English is my second language too, but my mother tongue has neutral genders the same. I don’t know how it works in your primary language, but if it is not the same, I guess you have to learn more about how it works before trying to tell the native speakers to abandon context.
I’m happy that we can now at least forget about inferring the education levels of people.
What I do see though is the usage of the language by native speakers. I pretty much never see a woman addressing a group of women by the “gender-neutral” “guys”. I often see males addressing a group of males by “guys”. Even this mismatch tells me enough about how neutral this term is among the people I see.
I also see males addressing a mixed group by “guys”. When called out, they say “oh, but I didn’t mean it like that, many other people do that, the word is now neutral”. Which might be even true despite the evidence mentioned above, but it still carries an awful lot of resemblance to other excuses about non-neutral language and behavior. I guess you can see why some people see this as an excuse.
I come from a country which in the last century had probably the best women’s rights in the whole world. And it still struggles with appropriate usage of neutral-gendered and “female”-gendered forms of words, and the excuses are all the same.
sometimes they might
Sure, and this only strengthens the point of the counter question
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?
I’m looking forward to Plasma 6
Seeing m$ lose a little more market share.
Plasma 6 for sure. I’m a Gnome user waiting with bated breath to see if it actually delivers the goods.
Always hoping for Nvidia to stop being bullshit. Definitely not buying from them again.
What Plasma 6 feature has you most excited?
None in particular. Just the totality of the changes. Many of them are small default changes or usability changes, but when taken together it sounds like a nice, somewhat overdue bundle.
Not OP, but I’m excited about the baked in tiling. Nervous about Wayland as I think I have some stuff that will break, but we’ll see.
2024 - The Year of The Linux Desktop!!!
Better ARM and RISC-V support
HDR playback
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
