Voice of the Masses: What are you most looking forward to in 2017?
So 2016 is almost over, and we’ll soon be recording our last podcast of the year. We could use this time to reflect on the last 12 months, but isn’t it far more exciting to think about the future? The answer is yes.
On that basis, we want to hear from you: what Linuxy or FOSSy thing are you most looking forward to in 2017? Perhaps it’s a new release of your favourite distro, or an update to a killer app that you depend on. (Gimp 2.10, anyone?) Maybe you hope to see Linux grab 3% of the desktop market share, or something else entirely. Simply input your musings into the comment box below and we’ll read out the best in our podcast, fuelled by Glühwein and plenty of Christmas cheer.
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Mike Saunders
Mike stores his data by printing out hex dumps and laminating the sheets. He's the author of The Haynes Linux Manual and the creator of MikeOS, an operating system hand-built from assembly language.
The year of the Linux desktop
The year of the Linux mobile phone.
Now that Microsoft has become a Linux Foundation member, will we see the emergence of a 2017 Microsoft Linux distro, or does one already exist in a small room that no one talks about in the basement at the Redmond HQ, a Mulder style ‘L Files’ office if you will. I doubt it but it is amusing to mull over.
I simply look forward to the continued success and ease of use of Mint Cinnamon.
Microsoft has already its own Linux-distribution it uses for its SDN which sits beneath Azure.
The rise of LibreOffice and the like for the common man. Well, why buy an application when an excellent alternative is freely available on line.
My surprise in 2016 came when, whilst helping older people to use their computers, to find just how poor Widows 10 is. What with pop ups declaring there was a virus present on a very new Tosh Laptop and my eight year old third hand Dell laptop running Mint was out performing the new Tosh with Windows 10 running LibreOffice. The Toshes owner was not a happy bunny.
For how much longer are people going to put up with this sort of rubbish? We have the best product so let’s promote it; load open source programs on friends computers in 2017.
And I forgot! The ability to update my Garmin and TomTom satnavs without using a Mac or Windows PC. Well a Garmin vivosmartHR can do it, why not a satnav?
Until recently I was looking forward to big improvements with AMD graphics cards in the mainline kernel, but with the recent mailing list posts it looks like that might be a long way off, if it ever happens at all. AMD cards still seem to be getting much better open source drivers though which is nice, just a shame it looks like it will be an out of kernel module.
I can’t really think of what else I need from my Linux desktops. More games are nice to help push improved drivers but the games I’m playing at the moment are already on Steam (XCOM 2, Rocket League (finally)). Actually, I am waiting for Civ 6. That’d be nice in 2017.
What will 2017 hold for Open Source AR (Augmented Reality)?
Getting to hear many more episodes of the Linux voice podcast along with many other podcasts which are available.
The first Linux Desktop in my employers Windows-7-only office in Duisburg, Germany.
Things I’d really like to see in 2017:
– Redshift/F.lux but for Wayland
– xcape but for Wayland
– nouveau with decent performance 😉
– a decent carddav-client that can handle as many mail-addresses and what not per contact and has a decent user experience
– Time Machine but for Linux. Coming from a Mac I really miss the UX of Time Machine. It is so awesome and the backup-experience on Linux so poor 🙁
– That someone tells me that I can use a COW-FS like btrfs without the fear of wasting my system if the disk runs out of space
IIRC Timemachine on mac was just a bunch of symlinks, no real back ups, but i think there is stuff for linux, there is Déjà Dup by gnome though
What I would like to see is a Microsoft that does not ,ahem, crapulate, every thing it touches, and or, a new elecronic componant that allows computers to function efficiently whilst deviating technically
Linux Conf 2017 Hobart, Australia
Hopefully Linux magazine adopt the look and style of Linux voice. The Linux mag section is very drab and staid looking. Their font is very hard on the eye. The voice section pops out as being fresh and new.
Also how about doing a live video podcast once in a while it would be fun to post comments as you are recording?
YES!
The sweet release of death after the inevitable fall of humanity.
I do want a new Ubuntu phone, though I suspect I am alone in that. I have a bq 4.5 and it satisfies all my needs, just getting old. I also look forward to a world that is safer because responsible people have access to my phone calls and browsing history, a world where we all just get along, and the discovery of a cure for unrealistic optimism.
+1 for a killer ubuntu phone
After My joke comment i am looking forward to new software and changes in 2 big photography software on linux, Gimp 2.10 that fixes ugly blurring and darktables upcoming release that will bring cool stuff
A few things. I would like the user interface/experience to continue to not getting in the way of doing whatever I want to get done, while continuing its path of gradual improvement.
I would like to see the games experience on Linux continue to improve (more AAA games, Civ VI and the like), with VR included in that (VR isn’t currently on option for me, but I can dream).
As a pipedream, I kind of like the idea of VR for the desktop. If it is generally usable (and doesn’t make you sick with prolonged use), I would like the idea of being able to work through VR (or more probably AR): you sit at your desk, with a pile of virtual-papers next to you, which you can pick up and read, and edit, either by hand, with handwriting recognition, or by placing on your monitor, and then edit as normal using the keyboard. Not being limited to physical monitors would mean your workload could be managed much more like it is with paper, which still feels more intuitive to me.
I used my Android phone instead of the TomTom on our last holiday trip. We had to due to new roads and outdated map in the TomTom. The TomTom spent the rest of the holiday in the clove compartment. The navi experience on the Samsung S7 was excellent.
Another domain conquered.
I would like to see drivers drivers drivers for up coming AR, VR & MR devices in 2017. (Oculus, Halo, Leap, etc)
I don’t just want quantum computing to work. I also want qbit entanglement networking to work.
I just wish that gray text on a gray background would go out of fashion, since one can not read that any more above 50 years of age…
Late to the party but what I am looking forward to in 2017 is the return of merchs on the linuxvoice.com website.
Xfce 4.14