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.

  • azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    52·
    1 year ago

    More Wayland adoption, more protocols and desktop portals, color management and HDR getting closer, even better gaming

    NVIDIA getting its shit together maybe?

    • herrvogel@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      1 year ago

      They just broke xwayland on my gpu so i’ve been forced to return to x11, bit of a backwards move

    • Atemu@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
    48·
    1 year ago

    Plasma 6, but just as excited for kernel 6.7 featuring:

    • bcachefs
    • AMD Seamless Boot (for flicker-free streamlined booting)
    • Scheduler improvements for better responsiveness/performance
    • IO_uring FUTEX support for better performance
    • More FUTEX2 work for potentially better gaming performance
    • Better write performance for eMMC chips (great for many IoT boards)
    • TCP network performance improvements
    • DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.1 support over Type-C
      • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzM
        6·
        1 year ago

        Initial benchmarks show better performance than btrfs (at least for some workloads), but more importanty, I like that it offers tiered/cache storage - so you can use a fast and small drive (NVMe) to speed up a slow and bigger drive (HDD). You can do that with ZFS as well of course, but it doesn’t have the massive RAM requirements. Also it’s much more easier to set up and configure in comparison.

          • pbjamm@beehaw.orgEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            BTRFS is honestly really great and has been for the last few years. Dont take the word of random people on the interwebs, check out some modern sources of info on the subject. Some people love to complain about RAID5/6 but if you use BTRFS the BTRFS way then it is solid.

            With that said, if you dont need snapshots, drive mirroring, sub volumes, bit rot protection etc then EXT4 is hard to beat for reliability.

          • umbrella@lemmy.ml
            1·
            1 year ago

            Thats why I’m still on trusty old ext4. Dunno if this is true but I dont want to risk data loss.

      • meteokr@community.adiquaints.moe
        3·
        1 year ago

        Its got a closer feature set to ZFS (tiered storage is going to be huge for me personally), but a much friendlier license. ZFS’s licensing drama solidly convinced me not to touch it with a ten meter pole. BTRFS isn’t bad as well, I currently use it, but tiered storage is excellent. Was the only reason I used to consider ZFS, but becachefs is getting to have my cake and eat it too.

  • andrew0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    481·
    1 year ago

    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! :)

    • arty@feddit.de
      714·
      1 year ago

      The classical answer to a male is: do you sleep with guys?

      • Constant Pain@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 year ago

        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?”.

        • arty@feddit.de
          52·
          1 year ago

          I guess having to explain this is a good enough reason to avoid this allegedly gender-neutral word in gender-neutral contexts

            • arty@feddit.de
              31·
              1 year ago

              Do you include in this group everyone with English as a foreign language like me?

              • Constant Pain@lemmy.world
                41·
                1 year ago

                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.

                • arty@feddit.de
                  3·
                  1 year ago

                  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.

      • moomoomoo309@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Heh. “Guy” has some interesting history. It originally referred to Guy Fawkes, because that was his name. Then it came to mean any person, gender neutral, then it became any man, now gendered, but the neutral definition never went away, so we have both meanings floating around still, but the original meaning, an effigy of Guy Fawkes, died.

        (I skipped a few steps in there because they’re not relevant between guy Fawkes and any person)

        • arty@feddit.de
          11·
          1 year ago

          Sure, and this only strengthens the point of the counter question

  • loanrangerofpeanuts@lemmy.world
    40·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
    20·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • juli@programming.dev
      2·
      1 year ago

      You can test it today. The feature freeze has happened already, thus nothing will change until the release

      • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        I don’t really know how to install something like a beta version of KDE, especially without messing up things on my own computer.

        • juli@programming.dev
          12·
          1 year ago

          With an immutable system you can’t fuck things up. I guess you aren’t on one. In that case, use boxes and install it in a vm :)

      • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
        61·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.