PikaOS 5. I want to see this project flourish, and I think they bring some much-need UX innovations to certain GUI tools (their system update interface is the best I’ve seen so far). I also love that they’ve dumped Ubuntu in order to do the CachyOS optimization thing upon a Debian base while still keeping everything bleeding edge.
Improved default keyring services in KDE. kwallet is kinda messy, and some people have pointed out that their use of blowfish is behind current best practices. On the flipside, using PGP means entering your password twice to unlock your keyring, so the experience is just not great out of the box.
I’m aware you can use third party tools like KeePass, but a user should not have to use something else to get a good experience.
Total Linux desktop share at 3%.
More/Frequent upstream gaming improvements from the Valve x Arch joint effort.
Nvidia integration parity with AMD
Open source Nvidia driver (as long as we’re wishing)
No doubt, but where does the documentation explain that? It’s not totally surprising that the firmware would remain closed source for now.
Regardless of the fact that firmware and userspace components are still closed source, this is still an improvement for the Nvidia + Linux relationship.
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PikaOS 5. I want to see this project flourish, and I think they bring some much-need UX innovations to certain GUI tools (their system update interface is the best I’ve seen so far). I also love that they’ve dumped Ubuntu in order to do the CachyOS optimization thing upon a Debian base while still keeping everything bleeding edge.
Improved default keyring services in KDE.
kwalletis kinda messy, and some people have pointed out that their use of blowfish is behind current best practices. On the flipside, using PGP means entering your password twice to unlock your keyring, so the experience is just not great out of the box.Total Linux desktop share at 3%.
More/Frequent upstream gaming improvements from the Valve x Arch joint effort.
Nvidia integration parity with AMD
Open source Nvidia driver (as long as we’re wishing)
The marketshare has already reached 5% and 4.55% in some surveys.
I’ve seen some of those, and from what I understand, the actual market share is 2.4% (the way average people like me would understand it, anyway).
Either way, my wish is for increased growth in the next year, however you measure it.
It’s 1.5% according to StatCounter which is the least biased source I know of.
For all the operating systems in the world including mobile.
Fair point - 4.1% for desktop, which is more than I would have guessed.
Nvidia released open source drivers in 2024.
Which are barely more than a first step as they are just the bare minimum with everything else being proprietary and pushed to userspace.
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I think you have that backwards…
https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules
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No doubt, but where does the documentation explain that? It’s not totally surprising that the firmware would remain closed source for now.
Regardless of the fact that firmware and userspace components are still closed source, this is still an improvement for the Nvidia + Linux relationship.