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.
- andrew0 ( @andrew0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 35•10 months 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! :)
- d3Xt3r ( @d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz ) 28•10 months 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
- acockworkorange ( @acockworkorange@mander.xyz ) 1•10 months ago
What about bcachefs excites you? Like, what does it offer that ext4, Btrfs and zfs don’t?
- d3Xt3r ( @d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz ) 5•10 months 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.
- meteokr ( @meteokr@community.adiquaints.moe ) 3•10 months 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.
- bastion ( @bastion@feddit.nl ) 2•10 months ago
It’s like btrfs, but faster, and less prone to data loss.
- acockworkorange ( @acockworkorange@mander.xyz ) 2•10 months ago
Btrfs is data loss prone? OpenSUSE Tumbleweed uses it as default, I assumed it was good enough.
- pbjamm ( @pbjamm@beehaw.org ) English3•10 months 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.
- acockworkorange ( @acockworkorange@mander.xyz ) 2•10 months ago
Snapshots changed my life. And I don’t exactly demand ultra reliability for my home PC. Thanks for the feedback!
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) 1•10 months ago
Thats why I’m still on trusty old ext4. Dunno if this is true but I dont want to risk data loss.
- ExLisper ( @ExLisper@linux.community ) English24•10 months ago
Nothing. 6.6.6 was already released.
- paradiso ( @paradiso@lemm.ee ) 4•10 months ago
Scary number
- GnuLinuxDude ( @GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ) 20•10 months 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 ( @juli@programming.dev ) 2•10 months ago
You can test it today. The feature freeze has happened already, thus nothing will change until the release
- GnuLinuxDude ( @GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ) 1•10 months 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 ( @juli@programming.dev ) 1•10 months 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 :)
- const_void ( @const_void@lemmy.ml ) 2•10 months ago
What Plasma 6 feature has you most excited?
- GnuLinuxDude ( @GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ) 5•10 months 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.
- minnix ( @minnix@lemux.minnix.dev ) English18•10 months ago
Probably true convergence between mobile and desktop, where your linux phone is powerful enough to be your only computing device. You would only need something like a lapdock (basically a laptop without the guts) and instead of a cable connecting the two, a slot maybe somewhere within the keyboard that your phone slips into. Maybe this exists already, I don’t know.
- MentalEdge ( @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ) 5•10 months ago
Asus EEE Pad Transformer TF101
That whole line of products was before it’s time, I really wanted one of the phone/tablet combos, but man were they expensive.
- frogmint ( @frogmint@beehaw.org ) 3•10 months ago
It’s a cool idea and there are similar devices, but they never seem to catch on because most people would rather carry a laptop that’s still useful if something happens to their phone
- MyNameIsRichard ( @MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml ) 18•10 months ago
I’m looking forward to Plasma 6
- ominouslemon ( @ominouslemon@lemm.ee ) 15•10 months ago
BSODs
- Strit ( @Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show ) 2•10 months ago
That’s already here with systemd 255 which released recently.
- ominouslemon ( @ominouslemon@lemm.ee ) 4•10 months ago
That’s the joke
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) 1•10 months ago
does it nees to be implemented anywhere else?
- nayminlwin ( @nayminlwin@lemmy.ml ) 12•10 months ago
Better ARM and RISC-V support
- theshatterstone54 ( @theshatterstone54@feddit.uk ) 12•10 months ago
Work in Cinnamon on Wayland, Plasma 6, XFCE 4.20 for Wayland support, WINE on Wayland, The Fancy Hyprland-like effects coming to Qtile Wayland, basically everything Wayland.
- 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 ( @sxan@midwest.social ) 11•10 months ago
bcachefs in mainline. It’s going to be fun.
- fennek182 ( @fennek182@feddit.de ) Deutsch11•10 months ago
HDR playback
- TheFriendlyArtificer ( @TheFriendlyArtificer@beehaw.org ) 10•10 months ago
I want Proton to evolve to the point where my CAD/CAM software works flawlessly.
I’m trying to adapt to FreeCAD, but I have so much muscle memory invested in Rhino that it feels like being a beginner again.
- Dario ( @dario@feddit.it ) English10•10 months ago
I am waiting for dynamic buffering and variabile refresh rate being both merged in mutter. Wine on Wayland is also pretty exciting.
- MangoKangaroo ( @MangoKangaroo@beehaw.org ) 10•10 months ago
Probably COSMIC. I’m also excited to maybe see HDR and improved tiling in GNOME.
- Mactan ( @mactan@lemmy.ml ) 9•10 months ago
wine Wayland driver