What developments in the Linux world are you looking forward to the most?

the_crab_man@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml – 210 points –

Personally, I'm looking forward to native Wayland support for Wine and KDE's port to Qt 6.

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  • Nix (OS, the package manager, and the language) having excellent and exhaustive documentation.
  • It being so easy to use that my grandmother could use it. Heck, a GUI to handle packages would be amazing!

I dont think thats really the goal here. NixOS is not designed to be used by your grandmother. Better Documentation would sometimes be nice though.
By the way, there already is https://github.com/vlinkz/nixos-conf-editor

Probably not the goal, but a NixOS-based begginer distro could be great, with one app to install all your package and one app to manage all your settings. (I personally really like the idea of having app settings in the "general" settings app). But probably the killer advantage of NixOS is that it's really hard to break and really easy to fix, which is important for a distro aimed at the general public.

P.S.: Also check out nix-software-center by the same guy.

It isn't not the goal, either. Nix is very popular with devs for many obvious reasons, so most of the developments naturally has to do with making that an even better experience. That doesn't mean accessibility is a non-goal; there just isn't a great deal of motivation to work on making the operating system easy for non-devs to use.

It has so many interesting possible applications. Declarative and reproducible wine configurations for games and software; universal (cross-distro) packaging (without emulated runtime environments like flatpak); reproducible user environments managed easily with a GUI with trivial version control (both for config and software versions); pre-configuring a system before even setting it up (such as configuring a raspberry pi before you've even bought one so that once you have, you just install and configure everything in one go).