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 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! :)
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
What about bcachefs excites you? Like, what does it offer that ext4, Btrfs and zfs don’t?
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.
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.
It’s like btrfs, but faster, and less prone to data loss.
Btrfs is data loss prone? OpenSUSE Tumbleweed uses it as default, I assumed it was good enough.
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.
Snapshots changed my life. And I don’t exactly demand ultra reliability for my home PC. Thanks for the feedback!
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Nothing. 6.6.6 was already released.
Scary number
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.
You can test it today. The feature freeze has happened already, thus nothing will change until the release
I don’t really know how to install something like a beta version of KDE, especially without messing up things on my own computer.
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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
I’m looking forward to Plasma 6
BSODs
That’s already here with systemd 255 which released recently.
That’s the joke
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Better ARM and RISC-V support
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.
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Why are you bringing gender into something that doesn’t need any gendering?
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bcachefs in mainline. It’s going to be fun.
HDR playback
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.
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Probably COSMIC. I’m also excited to maybe see HDR and improved tiling in GNOME.
