Long story short, this year is my exam preparation year and due to my nature I will take extreme measures to prevent distraction and focus on studying. I will decommision my PC, stop browsing Linux & tech related websites and leave this beautiful place called Lemmy. To make things clear, I am not influenced by anyone for doing this.

I want to use this post as a time capsule to revisit after 10 months, so I will write my predictions and also collect everyone’s. What do you expect to see in Linux and tech scene in 10 months from now? Here are my predictions:

  • Pop OS 24.04 will be awesome and be the go-to recommendation when it is released
  • SteamOS for PCs will not be released yet
  • Linux market share will be around %2-2.5 in Steam hardware survey
  • Plasma 6 will be released around January and will be a bit buggy, but most rough edges will be smoothed by the next release in 3-4 months
  • NVK will have performance parity with official drivers in certain configurations
  • Wayland will gain wider adoption, even on Nvidia
  • There will be little to no progress in compatibility with current anti-cheat blocked games

Side note:

  • Web environment integrity will be adopted only in education industry because it is dominated by Chromebooks at least in US. It will not be adopted by streaming services because highest level of DRM is only available on Edge and Safari. Even if Chrome had WEI support it would be meaningless because Netflix will stream 720p / 1080p anyways. MSFT and Apple will not implement WEI in their browsers in order to preserve the end-to-end control they have currently. Banks will also not implement WEI because they may be still serving customers using legacy (Windows 7) technology or simply using Firefox.
  • woelkchen@lemmy.world
    38·
    1 year ago

    Good luck preparing for exams without a PC and also not touch a smartphone in a timespan of 10 months…

  • Extras@lemmy.today
    27·
    1 year ago

    This seems fun my prediction is that twitter will suffer a massive breach especially with how theyre handling verification in like 5 months

  • irmoz@reddthat.com
    18·
    1 year ago

    I have a less drastic prediction for Pop. It will release Cosmic, and instead of taking over, it will just rise a few places in the list of commonly recommended distros, and become another DE for people to argue whether it’s the best.

  • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
    13·
    1 year ago

    I predict, when you finally run updates, you’ll have minor keyring issues to work around.

    Also after you reboot, if you’re on Nvidia, your DM may not load until you update your drivers.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
    10·
    1 year ago

    Framework will ship linux out of the box. I will have replaced the fans on my computer so they dont sound like industrial machinery.

    • flashgnash@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      Framework laptops aren’t actually designed with Linux in mind are they? Remember hearing they used some hardware that wasn’t well supported on linux

  • danielton@lemmy.world
    7·
    1 year ago

    I have a System76 laptop, but I don’t like Pop!_OS. Maybe it’s just because I don’t like GNOME.

      • danielton@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 year ago

        GNOME 2 was great. So great that it lives on today as MATE. But I just can’t get used to current GNOME at all and can’t understand why KDE Plasma isn’t popular.

        • deus@lemmy.world
          6·
          1 year ago

          What do you mean it isn’t popular? I was under the impression that KDE was roughly as used as GNOME, maybe a little less since it’s not the default in as many distros. As for why current GNOME is popular, my guess it’s mostly momentum (since GNOME was already popular) but it being a very clean and polished desktop probably helps as well.

          • danielton@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            It always seems like for the last decade or so, Linux fans have been all about GNOME or the tiling window managers. There aren’t really any distros I’m aware of other than KDE Neon that ship KDE as the default anymore, and some of the most popular distros, like Mint and Pop!_OS, don’t even offer a KDE flavor at all.

            GNOME just didn’t feel right to me at all since GNOME 3. I can’t get used to it.

          • danielton@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            My issue with GNOME is that it seems like it’s trying to be a weird hybrid of a tablet and desktop interface, and you have to install all these extensions if you want to change any of it.

  • dasnet@kbin.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    Good luck on your exam! I just started using pop os after never using Linux and it’s really nice

  • shaulliv@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    or simply using Firefox.

    In my experience Bank care little about anything outside of what they perceive as the mainstream (IE,EDGE,CHROME).

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
      7·
      1 year ago

      I was pleasantly surprised to see that my bank has security tips on their website for Windows, MacOS and Linux. They also mention Firefox alongside all the other browser options, so at least they can do this one thing right.

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    4·
    1 year ago

    What then, Windows?

    • no damn installable package manager
    • qclip for clipboard history is annoying
    • startisback++, files community and more projects are all paid

    But there is lots of nice software you can replace the Windows garbage with and have an okay desktop, still phoning home, shit file manager, stupid filesystem reading/encryption capabilities…

    Yeah, good luck haha

    • glibg10b@lemmy.ml
      6·
      1 year ago

      Windows has built-in clipboard history

      Also, OP said they wouldn’t be using their PC at all, not just Linux. Specifically cutting out Linux to avoid distractions doesn’t even make sense