I’m not proposing anything here, I’m curious what you all think of the future.

What is your vision for what you want Linux to be?

I often read about wanting a smooth desktop experience like on MacOS, or having all the hardware and applications supported like Windows, or the convenience of Google products (mail, cloud storage, docs), etc.

A few years ago people were talking about convergence of phone/desktop, i.e. you plug your phone into a big screen and keyboard and it’s now your desktop computer. That’s one vision. ChromeOS has its “everything is in the cloud” vision. Stallman has his vision where no matter what it is, the most important part is that it’s free software.

If you could decide the future of personal computing, what would it be?

  • euphoric.cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    13·
    1 year ago

    I want a seamless linux ecosystem across all devices (desktop, mobile, tv, etc) but especially i want to see linux phones take off. Their openness, the privacy aspect, and the power user stuff that comes with kde is already awesome on desktop, and especially their integration with the desktop would be crazy. I think the potential is incredibly high, we just haven’t seen it because the support is very early.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’ve seen some of that just with Syncthing.

      The ability to take a picture with my phone, and by the time I want to do anything with it it’s already on my desktop. And that it doesn’t go out to the “cloud,” it’s all done on my local machines, under my control.

        • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          1 year ago

          Basically read Syncthing’s documentation, it’s pretty easy to set up. It’s a peer-to-peer system, you install Syncthing on every machine you want (and it’s available for basically every platform except iOS) and then you can introduce them together and set up shared folders. It can work across the internet, but I have it to work LAN only. My pictures folders are synced, so when I take a picture with my phone, it is automatically synced to my computer. I have my documents folder on my desktop and laptop synced too.