• PixxlMan@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      To be fair - people don’t know what they want until they get it. In 2005 people would’ve asked for faster flip phones, not smartphones.

      I don’t have much faith in current gen AI assistants actually being useful though, but the fact that no one has asked for it doesn’t necessarily mean much.

      • taanegl@beehaw.org
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        9 months ago

        Open source locally run LLM that runs on GPU or dedicated PCIe open hardware that doesn’t touch the cloud…

  • ddkman@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

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

  • Ramin Honary@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    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.

        • wolf@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Gnome has at least some payed developers at IBM / Ubuntu. (unless IBM/Red Hat fired them, yet?)

          KDE has a big community, and there is some sponsoring happening from Valve (!).

          Xfce, to the best of my knowledge, has no full time developer.

    • taanegl@beehaw.org
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      9 months ago

      Open source AI assistant in GNOME… that can generate “art”…

      …so I can generate images of Elon Musk getting mistreated at the workplace as a programmer…

      …for reasons…

  • IverCoder@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • jmbmkn@beehaw.org
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      9 months ago

      I think the reason Gnome is good is the same thing that makes them insufferable. They believe there is a right way to do things, sometimes those are things you like, sometimes they aren’t.

  • taanegl@beehaw.org
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    9 months ago

    A locally run, self hosted AI assistant that can do everything ChatGPT can do, where you have control and ownership of the model and can mix with open models that are updated automatically, - and a mechanism where it can be instructed to design widgets as well as other simple desktop features that adhere to system wide privacy and security policies on request…

    …yes.