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What are some exciting projects that you follow and hope to see progress on?

I'll start!

  • Wayland greeter on SDDM
  • rust support on gcc
  • more Wayland adoption (especially VSCodium & Firefox forks)
  • Reproducible Build
  • ReactOS
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • I don't realistically expect to see any progress here but video hardware acceleration gaining first-class support in popular applications would be a nice dream. The one area Linux is complacent to be "inefficient".
  • One of the KDE devs has been working on some magic that might keep application state even after the desktop crashes.
  • Chimera Linux.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is Chimera Linux still under development? I thought that project died a while ago...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You must be confusing Chimera Linux with something else. The project had a new release over a week ago. https://chimera-linux.org/news/