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Notice how none of these replies are “AI assistant”?

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A more polished wayland with plasma 6 :)

A bunch of ai garbage and also some ads please! Maybe collect info about me and sell it to marketing corporations while you're there.

I want the cube back.

A consistent system settings app that actually handles all configs without requireing manual editing of config files.

Basically competent support for hardware for laptops newer than 2014. Proper thunderbolt, displaylink, trackpad, fingerprint reader, facial rec support.

Remote desktop working like it does in windows.

• easy to setup and use
• can remote into a system that has been recently rebooted. Without needing to make the user auto login and set the keychain password to be blank.
• resolution scales to remote client interface

I love linux and it is really all I use but RDP support is severly worse than windows.

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Kde, cast the screen wirelessly. The gnome app does work but it's not integrated in kde display configuration

I just hope GNOME's developers would stop being so insufferable. Lots of Wayland extensions and FreeDesktop portals unimplemented on GNOME because of the developers' stubbornness. These also adversely affect to other DEs and WMs and Wayland's evolution itself because other DEs would have less reasons to support a standard if one of the largest DEs themselves don't support it.

I really love GNOME because it's polished, but if KDE would be just as polished I will immediately switch. I know KDE works really hard to make the DE and the apps in general as polished and modern as possible, but I can't still help but feel better at GNOME.

One example is the color scheming protocol by FreeDesktop. You can now make your apps look greenish or purplish or whatever color you want regardless of the toolkit they're made with. Right? Well no, because the insufferable GNOME developers keep blocking the proposal because they want the colors to be hardcoded by the DE. They were offered a compromise where a DE can just offer a limited, curated color picker to the user when they go to the theming settings and allow any arbitrary color hidden behind commands, but the insufferable GNOME developers said no. And the proposal, last time I heard, is still stalled because of GNOME.

I really want to have better tiling and window management in Gnome. Ubuntu has an add-on released with 23.10 that I haven't got around to test yet. And I know that Gnome has that feature in the works, but it annoys me that Windows 11 has better management of windows with window-snapping than my DE of choice.

TTS & STT, tightly integrated. And perhaps language translation.

Accent. Colours. Now. (I'm looking at you, gnome)

The tiling concept that was shown off some time ago for GNOME looks amazing

I'm on KDE.

Wallet sync with Android.

Wayland crash recovery.

General support for Wayland screen sharing in flatpack apps.

Swap between KDE and GNOME without restart.

Not for me but selecting different premade layouts for KDE on install.

App by app file backups that integrate with cloud storage.

Context menu of application dock shows Application window settings (otherwise only accessible via main settings or titlebar. (very niche)

Casting the whole screen to Android TV built in.

Option to remove PPAs that error via gui.

Move window to an activity shortcut.

Native support for installing webapps (think Samsung installing a website) so I don't have to use a separate browser window or an unsecure electron package.

But if I'm being completely honest the amount of use cases I have that are covered by KDE is completely insane. These are the ones I want for "1-2 times per day saves 10 seconds" or "1-2 times per montt saves a minute + standing up". If it were not for these I'd have to list "Interact with my IoT devices via laptop and KDE connect to make me coffee without standing up". Love KDE.

I love the cover photo bro

Not a DE user, but I would like Cosmic to be stable.

(Plus, mouse-keys.)

KDE: When using multiple monitors, being able to configure their relative position on start up. Right now, it just does who knows what, but they're out of order. Also, I only need 1 logon screen in total, not one in each monitor...that happen to be out of order anyway.

Honestly nothing. Im pretty happy with it for a few years now.

Seamless transition from X to Wayland

Please inbuilt on screen keyboard. For the love of god windows on screen keyboard is miles ahead of any Linux alternative and on Wayland the scene is even worse.

Zero unrecoverable freeze events per month

Better Wayland support across the board, but also more Wayland compositors and window managers from which to choose. I'd make my own but I know so very little about Wayland right now and it would take me a while to learn.

Also, I have always wanted desktop environments to be more like Emacs, i.e. to be fully programmable in a Lisp language like Common Lisp or Scheme, where you can just whip-up a GUI app for anything you want in a few minutes with a few lines of code. Operating systems like that existed back in the 1970s and 80s, but went extinct when Windows and Macintosh took over everything, which were never designed to be programmable by end users. It sucks because there hasn't been anything like it ever since.

To see what I am talking about, check out the historical preservation projects for Lisp Machines like the InterLisp Medley desktop environment or the CADR ZMacs editor.

Wayland support. I use Cinnamon

XFCE with polish/feature parity of Gnome (with Dash-to-panel), and Wayland support.

Theming, controlled one central place.

This goes for both Gnome (GTK, Qt, Gnome Shell) and Sway (GTK, Qt, Sway, Rofi, Waybar...)

Still waiting for a DE that's looks and acts like i3/sway but takes care of everything under the hood like monitor config, shortcuts for brightness, volume etc. Essentially everything Gnome or KDE does.