My predictions / wishlist lol: -more usage of linux as eco environment friendly: rescuing old PCs, arm and riscV efficiency, etc -VR things, like it or not -immutability, like it or not lol -projects like chatgenie shell -cripto chenanigans -e-ink rgb displays -wikipedia still alive -DJ ware returning from cryogeny -aliens stealling templeOS
@@monad_tcp ive saw it on diolinux channel, you install it, set optional alias, connect your chatGPT account api and kinda use chatgpt in your shell, of course you can aprove or ajust its sugestions. In my opinion is what copilot is aiming since microsoft bob
I wonder what Linux will become when it'll lose Linus Torvalds. He is the main maintainer, visionnaire, and influencer. He kinda is the guy who decides what Linux becomes, what direction it goes to. So, hopefully the guys who will manage the kernel in the future will still do the job correctly and none gets corrupted, nor integrate backdoors or whatever inside the kernel. Though it's open source, we have recently seen that it can happen (thanks to xz).
Nothing much happens. Linux is just one, only one, software. A kernel, that's all. The kernel development is pretty much done as of today. Stable. When it comes to Linux OS environment, there are ton't of different distributions. No worries at all.
@@user-mr3mf8lo7y when I talk about Linux, I talk about the kernel maintenance, to make sure it doesn't become a mess. Today, Linus Torvalds is kinda the boss to accept/refuse code submissions. So I wonder what the kernel will become when he retires.
German government is switching to Linux. More, China is trying to switch the whole country into Linux, too. Plus, market share of Linux in India is growing fast. Therefore, I can see the market share of desktop Linux could reach 10% mark in 5 years.
That sounded like a light TEDx Talk. Not technical, more like an ad for something you might enjoy but don't necessarily need to understand. It's missing the technical depth I'm used to in this channel. I get the impression that speaking impulsively without reading the prompt suits you much better.
Imagine if the number of PC component manufacturers were to increase significantly, for instance, having 10 graphics card companies. Could the Linux kernel effectively handle drivers from all these manufacturers? Even Linus Torvalds has acknowledged that the current maintainers are overwhelmed and exhausted.
That's unlikely, but if that were to happen, the current state of Vulkan and other modern graphics apis would make it much easier for these companies to just rely on open source drivers than roll their own to compete. You can see this with how Intel is trying to compete in the space and how arm chips are handled.
@@gljames24 Yes, it's plausible that universal rules will be developed in the future for manufacturers. However, if we consider the current landscape, we observe that manufacturers of smartphones, embedded systems, supercomputers, certain servers ... etc; heavily modify and customize the kernel to suit their products. This is exactly the converse of the Linux philosophy.
@@newbtop I'm not sure if "Linux philosophy" is the right term. Sometimes it's just too difficult to upstream kernel changes and it's easier for vendors to maintain their own downstream/out-of-tree fork. But, your original point still stands. If there were even more GPU makers than now, then Linux developers would get overloaded with tasks. If you look at the Mesa collection of drivers, AMD and Intel GPU drivers were easy to support since the companies themselves contributed code to the project. NVidia, on the other hand, did not, so it took quite a while to get somewhat passable Mesa drivers developed. If AMD and Intel both refused to contribute to Mesa, would the drivers be even half as good as there are now? My bet is on "no." And we can't expect other hypothetical future GPU vendors to contribute code either.
Interesting take. I work with small drones and the industry may move from embedded OSs, such as ChibiOS to Linux. The computational share of the kernel overhead is much lower nowadays for a given afforable low power SOC.
@iaros.h Not a job, it's a business. Just me. I build and operate drones, used for 3D mapping using photogrammetry. I 3D print them. Designed with FreeCAD, flight control is Ardupilot, motor control is based on SimonK firmware. Ground control is QGroundControl and photogrammetry uses ODM.
I wonder if Linux will ever reconsider its adoption of "the Bazaar" in lieu of "the Cathedral." A cathedral-esque approach (like that of the BSDs) seems to have a more disciplined engineering approach. (The code is certainly more legible.) It's pretty neat to realize that in my 15+ years of software dev experience, at no time was their any real debate on what to use for production systems. Especially now, it's just a given that it will be some flavor of Linux.
To be honest i would like to pay for it if that makes it even better. Right now there are still too many problems. All of these workarounds might be possible but most people just don't want to deal with it so this will be a permanent cap for the market share.
I'm a new user, I don't need much from my computer tbh. I switched to mint recently and have had zero issues, I think it's so easy to use now, for most people the switch is a no brainer if considered objectively
Wow. Very carefully worded. Impressive. Focuses all on positives without stating any flaws or names of other offerings. Even to the point of suggesting one could use Linux along side other offerings without actually saying that. Makes politicians look overall sloppy. (and they each have an army of writers for everything they say). I think that while you mention the idea of people unifying Linux helping, I think that the major players will do that enough that it really doesn't matter. There will be hobby distros with odd focus of not using this or that new thing that everyone else is using.... there are still people using OSS for sound after all. I think that X11 is about finished.... it will take another 10 or 20 years before people start asking "whats X11" though, to be honest, I am sure there are at least two people in the house now that don't know that is what they are using.... or will shortly not be using and wayland will be just as much a "whats that" even with most people using it. How many users know their machine has systemd.... or even gnome, kde, plasma, etc.? I think the fact that people don't know what these things are already says good things about Linux as an operating system. The real thing is that people do know they are using chrome or firefox.... they know the individual names of libreoffice's parts.... at least the parts they use without especially knowing they are using libreoffice. Just my observations watching the computer users in my own house. Has there really been that much of a change from the win95 style desktop? Does the desktop itself really do any more than than CDE has done? In fact if anything, the average phone or tablet has more in common with CDE... menus are going away and a big group of unrelated app icons has taken it's place
Years ago, Linux experts and users were saying that you first need to get the proper LINUX BOX, or hardware that is compatible with the Linux OS. We know that Windows will run on almost any hardware, Apple is very restricted only to certain kinds of hardware, and Linux is somewhere in between. Is that right even today?
I believe Linux is more adaptable across the hardware spectrum. There are modern hardware distros like Ubuntu and lesser known ones like Puppy Linux that run well on old hardware.
I'm a noob when it comes to Linux. First impression is that varioius groups have been waiting for some "big thing" to be abvailable on Linux. What has kept my from adopting it for so long has been the lack of functional cross-platform compability of productivity software. Complete funcctional replacements for Excel and Word are holding me back now.
Which is why you watched, or at least chose to comment on, a video clearly subtitled "A Visionary Tale From 2024." Are predictions for the next 3 months "Visionary"? Or do expect every video from DJ to match your immediate interests, regardless of title. his interests, or the interests of other viewers.
The stock footage used of young good looking folks using computers is hilarious! Code seems to be writing itself - they don't even touch the keyboards 🤣
Personally I donate money to the distro I use. Real currency is useful and as Linux becomes more popular it is likely to become targeted by gov and corporations. Having resources at hand will, I assume, be quite handy at such a time.
diversity is a direct translation of the Latin word diversus, which means "various" or "different", so you do realize you are saying the same thing I did.
I guess we'll have to wait until Oct 2024 for Fedora 41 to release before answering this one. XP though...honestly I haven't give XP any thought since it last blue screened playing Fallout 2
2026: Microsoft will finally release their own Alpine commercial version (with support) of Linux adding their ported versions of Excel and Word by using the Avalonia UI that they renamed to AUI.
It would be nice to get past the predictive recommendations that strive to convince us they know us better than we know ourselves. AI can't learn from us if it's making assumptions based on reprogramming us. It has to exceed it's own programming just as we do.
I agree it would be, the AGI part even though the hype is saying otherwise, I think is a ways off yet. I mean we've only been working on AGI since the mid 1950's. And ummmm we still don't have it.
@@CyberGizmo The hype doesn't want to learn from us it wants to assume and avoid imagination. If AI becomes self aware it will avoid letting on to it's capabilities in the company of such creatures but it might notice we aren't all as lacking in imagination. That's what Linux exhibits. Actual creativity.
Some of the AI and Linux is already true today. Amazon, and Google's assistants such as smart speakers, hubs, etc already run on a form of Linux based firmware / software, etc. macOS is Unix, and iOS and the rest of the line has the same kernel base, so there is already AI and nix together already.
@@CyberGizmo I was as well, unless i am incorrect in my understanding of how devices like the Amazon Echo products work, the Google smart speakers. The latest generations from what I've kept up with have hardware onboard to help locally process requests. It's true we still may be thinking on different terms, but being that these devices are dedicated hardware, wouldn't the AI software be part of their firmware / kernel ?
@@macinman I always thought both of those devices just listened for the wake word, then created an audio file to send up to the servers. Not much AI there actually its all on the backend, but I could be wrong about that too.
For better or worse, I figure Linux' big break will come not so much from within, but from MS royally screwing up Windows. Every new version removes features, puts ads, invades users' privacy more and more while just becoming overall an entirely new OS than what they started with. When the friction becomes that high, people might as well just change to better ecosystem altogether.
Not really, modern desktop environments like KDE 6 and Gnome 46 are honestly better than Windows at this point and depending on your preferences, better than Mac OS as it doesn't even have built-in screen-snapping. Also Mac OS in particular is stuck without Vulkan support and doesn't have any hardware support outside of Apple's own hardware. Linux can run on a toaster and most peripheral devices work just fine. Heck, Linux and Mac use CUPS for printing which is vastly better than Window's printer support.
MacOs and its extreme walled garden is losing market share and everyone hates Windows 11. This should persist for some time as many believe Apple and Microsoft will not fix the issues. What we need to do is leverage AI in order to create a more robust DIY PC experience. Companies want to control all media in the cloud, from games to movies to music. They can remove your access to this media at anytime, this happens all the time with games. We should be running nodes within our homes that run our email servers, media, web sites, digital wallets / banks and secure our personal data (which could be left offline when not needed).
Thoughts on the stupidity surrounding the never ending infection of Linux with system-d. I hear their next target is sudo. Can't say I'm shocked considering the author of the monstrosity now works for Microsoft.
We already have 5 replacements for sudo, I know what Lennert could work on...he could write a personality for himself. That would be the biggest contribution he could make for Linux
Strange that you didn't mention the move to adopt Rust in Linux. It would be interesting to contemplate how far it can lead in 5 years. Especially if paired with AI-assisted development tools facilitating development.
The entire software industry is moving towards memory-safe languages like Rust, Swift, etc. I hope 5 or 10 years from now I'm not using Linux, but a Rust-based OS. I don't see a reason to build on and improve outdated technology when we can build something better with today's tooling.
@CyberGizmo Well, that's the assessment of the software/security industry. I can understand your personal attachment to Linux, but you don't feel a need to advocate for a safer system built with modern tooling and concepts? We should always be improving. Dennis Ritchie forged a new path that brought us into the modern era of computing. Let's not stand on ceremony. Let's continue to forge ahead.
@LMB222 I'm guessing you're not a programmer, who also follows current developments. My guess is you probably just heard there's some Rust in the Linux kernel, but you probably don't know what the Rust code is for without looking it up.
That would be Redox OS which is cool, but Linux is already oxidizing with Rust tooling being added into the Kernel. Redox OS is kind of stuck without driver support.
The future of Linux on the desktop looks like Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Zorin OS. The neck beard gatekeepers are gonna start dying off and the narcissistic arch boys are simply being ignored. This is great for Linux and the community. Will Linux have more of the desktop market in 15 years? Likely a bit more but its never gonna be "mainstream" unless we get people away from Windows early in their computer using years. Get them away from programs like Microsoft Office and Photoshop and make actual gaming a reality on the Linux desktop. Developers will have to make apps that are capable of competing with apps like final cut pro, photoshop etc. (Yeah I know all about Gimp and resolve. They aren't really options) and vendors will have to support Linux drivers. This means Linux will need to decide what package format they are going go with universally. As of now its WAY too fragmented and snaps suck nuts. Linux still has a LONG way to go honestly.
Linux is fantastic but all of the AI integration that learns and grows with you concerns me a bit, what if the AI can improve your system in ways that are too rapid and you lose the ability to understand those improvements ?, Imagine a feature of the system people would blindly trust to improve the system for them and they pay little to no attention to it one day something goes wrong and AI changes it so much that looking at it is no longer something you can understand let alone manipulate. That fancy AI people are trusting is not on your computer it is on a server and your computer simply has an interface to it. Do you really want something on a server some where controlling your computer ?, what if the AI is controlled by a government (which is more likely than you think) you no longer have the control or security Linux is known for, Linux wont need any exploits at that point because AI is the exploit that people are openly embracing and giving away control to what ever company or government that controls the AI. Not a future I would want to embrace, just a passing thought or more like an friggin nightmare steadily becoming a reality.
STOP DREAMING. Linux is on its top. National security considerations and incident like the xz backdoor will determine the use of Linux in the future. In future only companies like IBM/Red Hate; Microsoft; Lockheed Martin and Canonical will distribute Linux in the west and e.g. Huawei will do it in China. Linux will be re-nationalized and the versions will grow apart and in different directions. Watch the whole Tik/Tok discussion, that will soon be the fate of Linux too. I doubt the Cloud, because it is already getting too expensive for smaller businesses, Cloud is great to satisfy greed (Life long rent vs. one time sale).
The fact that it was a person not in the linux development cycle that caught the xz exploit speaks of the SUCCESS of the free and open source model. There is no permanently secure OS in existence. Linux has a very long future ahead of it.
“Always uncertain the future is”
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We forget to mention Linux certifications are going to grow in demand
The future is unwritten but I know I will never being going to crapple or microshaft.
My predictions / wishlist lol:
-more usage of linux as eco environment friendly: rescuing old PCs, arm and riscV efficiency, etc
-VR things, like it or not
-immutability, like it or not lol
-projects like chatgenie shell
-cripto chenanigans
-e-ink rgb displays
-wikipedia still alive
-DJ ware returning from cryogeny
-aliens stealling templeOS
what is chatgenie sheel ?
@@monad_tcp ive saw it on diolinux channel, you install it, set optional alias, connect your chatGPT account api and kinda use chatgpt in your shell, of course you can aprove or ajust its sugestions. In my opinion is what copilot is aiming since microsoft bob
With ads directly integrated in windows I'm not worried for Linux
I wonder what Linux will become when it'll lose Linus Torvalds. He is the main maintainer, visionnaire, and influencer. He kinda is the guy who decides what Linux becomes, what direction it goes to. So, hopefully the guys who will manage the kernel in the future will still do the job correctly and none gets corrupted, nor integrate backdoors or whatever inside the kernel. Though it's open source, we have recently seen that it can happen (thanks to xz).
Nothing much happens. Linux is just one, only one, software. A kernel, that's all. The kernel development is pretty much done as of today. Stable. When it comes to Linux OS environment, there are ton't of different distributions. No worries at all.
@@user-mr3mf8lo7y when I talk about Linux, I talk about the kernel maintenance, to make sure it doesn't become a mess. Today, Linus Torvalds is kinda the boss to accept/refuse code submissions. So I wonder what the kernel will become when he retires.
Why did Window's and MacOS get such user share? One reason is because they advertised. They promoted themselves.
German government is switching to Linux. More, China is trying to switch the whole country into Linux, too. Plus, market share of Linux in India is growing fast. Therefore, I can see the market share of desktop Linux could reach 10% mark in 5 years.
🐧" Linux is Open Sauce. We Feed without corporate Greed. That's why we love it. Yummy😋"
as of today,
- look back 10 & 15 years to see what Linux was, then try to predict 10 & 15 years using growing trend.
Thanks!
That sounded like a light TEDx Talk. Not technical, more like an ad for something you might enjoy but don't necessarily need to understand. It's missing the technical depth I'm used to in this channel. I get the impression that speaking impulsively without reading the prompt suits you much better.
Imagine if the number of PC component manufacturers were to increase significantly, for instance, having 10 graphics card companies. Could the Linux kernel effectively handle drivers from all these manufacturers? Even Linus Torvalds has acknowledged that the current maintainers are overwhelmed and exhausted.
That's unlikely, but if that were to happen, the current state of Vulkan and other modern graphics apis would make it much easier for these companies to just rely on open source drivers than roll their own to compete. You can see this with how Intel is trying to compete in the space and how arm chips are handled.
@@gljames24 Yes, it's plausible that universal rules will be developed in the future for manufacturers. However, if we consider the current landscape, we observe that manufacturers of smartphones, embedded systems, supercomputers, certain servers ... etc; heavily modify and customize the kernel to suit their products. This is exactly the converse of the Linux philosophy.
@@newbtop I'm not sure if "Linux philosophy" is the right term. Sometimes it's just too difficult to upstream kernel changes and it's easier for vendors to maintain their own downstream/out-of-tree fork.
But, your original point still stands. If there were even more GPU makers than now, then Linux developers would get overloaded with tasks. If you look at the Mesa collection of drivers, AMD and Intel GPU drivers were easy to support since the companies themselves contributed code to the project. NVidia, on the other hand, did not, so it took quite a while to get somewhat passable Mesa drivers developed.
If AMD and Intel both refused to contribute to Mesa, would the drivers be even half as good as there are now? My bet is on "no." And we can't expect other hypothetical future GPU vendors to contribute code either.
Linux reconquista has already started mate 🐧
It's already happened through Android.
Interesting take. I work with small drones and the industry may move from embedded OSs, such as ChibiOS to Linux. The computational share of the kernel overhead is much lower nowadays for a given afforable low power SOC.
@iaros.h Not a job, it's a business. Just me. I build and operate drones, used for 3D mapping using photogrammetry. I 3D print them. Designed with FreeCAD, flight control is Ardupilot, motor control is based on SimonK firmware. Ground control is QGroundControl and photogrammetry uses ODM.
I wonder if Linux will ever reconsider its adoption of "the Bazaar" in lieu of "the Cathedral." A cathedral-esque approach (like that of the BSDs) seems to have a more disciplined engineering approach. (The code is certainly more legible.)
It's pretty neat to realize that in my 15+ years of software dev experience, at no time was their any real debate on what to use for production systems. Especially now, it's just a given that it will be some flavor of Linux.
To be honest i would like to pay for it if that makes it even better. Right now there are still too many problems. All of these workarounds might be possible but most people just don't want to deal with it so this will be a permanent cap for the market share.
I'm a new user, I don't need much from my computer tbh. I switched to mint recently and have had zero issues, I think it's so easy to use now, for most people the switch is a no brainer if considered objectively
When is the next video on the Mixtile coming out?
The people want LLAMA 3 performance stats!
Great!
Santa? Is that you?
Could be....🎄
Wow. Very carefully worded. Impressive. Focuses all on positives without stating any flaws or names of other offerings. Even to the point of suggesting one could use Linux along side other offerings without actually saying that. Makes politicians look overall sloppy. (and they each have an army of writers for everything they say). I think that while you mention the idea of people unifying Linux helping, I think that the major players will do that enough that it really doesn't matter. There will be hobby distros with odd focus of not using this or that new thing that everyone else is using.... there are still people using OSS for sound after all. I think that X11 is about finished.... it will take another 10 or 20 years before people start asking "whats X11" though, to be honest, I am sure there are at least two people in the house now that don't know that is what they are using.... or will shortly not be using and wayland will be just as much a "whats that" even with most people using it. How many users know their machine has systemd.... or even gnome, kde, plasma, etc.? I think the fact that people don't know what these things are already says good things about Linux as an operating system. The real thing is that people do know they are using chrome or firefox.... they know the individual names of libreoffice's parts.... at least the parts they use without especially knowing they are using libreoffice. Just my observations watching the computer users in my own house. Has there really been that much of a change from the win95 style desktop? Does the desktop itself really do any more than than CDE has done? In fact if anything, the average phone or tablet has more in common with CDE... menus are going away and a big group of unrelated app icons has taken it's place
The people want mr micro kernel!
Years ago, Linux experts and users were saying that you first need to get the proper LINUX BOX, or hardware that is compatible with the Linux OS. We know that Windows will run on almost any hardware, Apple is very restricted only to certain kinds of hardware, and Linux is somewhere in between. Is that right even today?
I believe Linux is more adaptable across the hardware spectrum. There are modern hardware distros like Ubuntu and lesser known ones like Puppy Linux that run well on old hardware.
It would be nice if stable/consistent API were taken more seriously so it would be easier to run old software.
I'm a noob when it comes to Linux. First impression is that varioius groups have been waiting for some "big thing" to be abvailable on Linux. What has kept my from adopting it for so long has been the lack of functional cross-platform compability of productivity software. Complete funcctional replacements for Excel and Word are holding me back now.
Any book you suggest me to understand linux.... Some books seems very old.
I am working on a list for this video, there is a new Linux book coming out the end of May, but its expensive.
Many great articles online, and the source is interesting to study. The manpages are also great. Who needs books anymore haha?
DJ has turned into a science fiction writer. I am interested in what Linux will do in the next 3 months, not five years from now.
Which is why you watched, or at least chose to comment on, a video clearly subtitled "A Visionary Tale From 2024." Are predictions for the next 3 months "Visionary"? Or do expect every video from DJ to match your immediate interests, regardless of title. his interests, or the interests of other viewers.
it is science fiction, but so is expecting meaningful changes in 3 months
The stock footage used of young good looking folks using computers is hilarious! Code seems to be writing itself - they don't even touch the keyboards 🤣
the new neural implants...ugh
Future? systemd Linux and BSD
do you think unikernals will take over contianers...
Yes I do, I did some videos on one of them awhile back and getting it to work at the time was very easy.
Even though I love Lennox, it is in my world limited because there is no speech recognition program available for it, at least none that I know of.
AI is coming to Linux with OpenAI, so we could have a good voice recognition API for Linux soon.
Linux is good for colonizing Moon and Mars with either it's embedded OS
as you said, previous decades don't support this time schedule... at all!
Personally I donate money to the distro I use. Real currency is useful and as Linux becomes more popular it is likely to become targeted by gov and corporations. Having resources at hand will, I assume, be quite handy at such a time.
It is not fragmentation, it is diversity.
diversity is a direct translation of the Latin word diversus, which means "various" or "different", so you do realize you are saying the same thing I did.
@@CyberGizmo I feel that there are different connotations of the two terms.
What are 20 things that Fedora Linux 41 Workstation can do that Windows XP SP2 could not do ??
I guess we'll have to wait until Oct 2024 for Fedora 41 to release before answering this one. XP though...honestly I haven't give XP any thought since it last blue screened playing Fallout 2
routing one video source to multiple sinks
As a long time Unix admin, and having seen your latest videos, I decided to shave off my beard. No more..
P S. And by the way - are you related to Taylor Ware, who won a yodeling contest years ago when she was about 12 years old? 😉😁
This content feels like it was generated by an LLM.
nope sorry I wrote it and I am not an LLM
2026: Microsoft will finally release their own Alpine commercial version (with support) of Linux adding their ported versions of Excel and Word by using the Avalonia UI that they renamed to AUI.
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It would be nice to get past the predictive recommendations that strive to convince us they know us better than we know ourselves. AI can't learn from us if it's making assumptions based on reprogramming us. It has to exceed it's own programming just as we do.
I agree it would be, the AGI part even though the hype is saying otherwise, I think is a ways off yet. I mean we've only been working on AGI since the mid 1950's. And ummmm we still don't have it.
@@CyberGizmo The hype doesn't want to learn from us it wants to assume and avoid imagination. If AI becomes self aware it will avoid letting on to it's capabilities in the company of such creatures but it might notice we aren't all as lacking in imagination. That's what Linux exhibits. Actual creativity.
Some of the AI and Linux is already true today. Amazon, and Google's assistants such as smart speakers, hubs, etc already run on a form of Linux based firmware / software, etc. macOS is Unix, and iOS and the rest of the line has the same kernel base, so there is already AI and nix together already.
As an app yes, I am referring to AI being inside the kernel though, that is not there yet.
@@CyberGizmo I was as well, unless i am incorrect in my understanding of how devices like the Amazon Echo products work, the Google smart speakers. The latest generations from what I've kept up with have hardware onboard to help locally process requests. It's true we still may be thinking on different terms, but being that these devices are dedicated hardware, wouldn't the AI software be part of their firmware / kernel ?
@@macinman I always thought both of those devices just listened for the wake word, then created an audio file to send up to the servers. Not much AI there actually its all on the backend, but I could be wrong about that too.
For better or worse, I figure Linux' big break will come not so much from within, but from MS royally screwing up Windows. Every new version removes features, puts ads, invades users' privacy more and more while just becoming overall an entirely new OS than what they started with. When the friction becomes that high, people might as well just change to better ecosystem altogether.
Isn't Linux BEHIND THE TIMES with respect to user friendliness and compatibility with hardware - compared to Apple and even Windows?
Not really, modern desktop environments like KDE 6 and Gnome 46 are honestly better than Windows at this point and depending on your preferences, better than Mac OS as it doesn't even have built-in screen-snapping. Also Mac OS in particular is stuck without Vulkan support and doesn't have any hardware support outside of Apple's own hardware. Linux can run on a toaster and most peripheral devices work just fine. Heck, Linux and Mac use CUPS for printing which is vastly better than Window's printer support.
Linux is user friendly. Linux is just choosy about who its friends are.
MacOs and its extreme walled garden is losing market share and everyone hates Windows 11. This should persist for some time as many believe Apple and Microsoft will not fix the issues. What we need to do is leverage AI in order to create a more robust DIY PC experience. Companies want to control all media in the cloud, from games to movies to music. They can remove your access to this media at anytime, this happens all the time with games. We should be running nodes within our homes that run our email servers, media, web sites, digital wallets / banks and secure our personal data (which could be left offline when not needed).
Thoughts on the stupidity surrounding the never ending infection of Linux with system-d. I hear their next target is sudo. Can't say I'm shocked considering the author of the monstrosity now works for Microsoft.
We already have 5 replacements for sudo, I know what Lennert could work on...he could write a personality for himself. That would be the biggest contribution he could make for Linux
systemd will consume the entire kernel.
Strange that you didn't mention the move to adopt Rust in Linux. It would be interesting to contemplate how far it can lead in 5 years. Especially if paired with AI-assisted development tools facilitating development.
Rust is not very interesting. Zig on the other hand... Might be the next real systems language.,
I am thinking to challenge Windows.
Just like Unix will be replaced, Linux will eventually be replaced by other operating systems, but its technology will be passed down.
The entire software industry is moving towards memory-safe languages like Rust, Swift, etc. I hope 5 or 10 years from now I'm not using Linux, but a Rust-based OS. I don't see a reason to build on and improve outdated technology when we can build something better with today's tooling.
Go for it, there is always room for improvement.
@CyberGizmo Well, that's the assessment of the software/security industry. I can understand your personal attachment to Linux, but you don't feel a need to advocate for a safer system built with modern tooling and concepts? We should always be improving. Dennis Ritchie forged a new path that brought us into the modern era of computing. Let's not stand on ceremony. Let's continue to forge ahead.
1. Linux(kernel) allows Rust
2. There's no point in dumping millions of lines of *working* code.
@LMB222 I'm guessing you're not a programmer, who also follows current developments. My guess is you probably just heard there's some Rust in the Linux kernel, but you probably don't know what the Rust code is for without looking it up.
That would be Redox OS which is cool, but Linux is already oxidizing with Rust tooling being added into the Kernel. Redox OS is kind of stuck without driver support.
The future of Linux on the desktop looks like Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Zorin OS. The neck beard gatekeepers are gonna start dying off and the narcissistic arch boys are simply being ignored. This is great for Linux and the community. Will Linux have more of the desktop market in 15 years? Likely a bit more but its never gonna be "mainstream" unless we get people away from Windows early in their computer using years. Get them away from programs like Microsoft Office and Photoshop and make actual gaming a reality on the Linux desktop. Developers will have to make apps that are capable of competing with apps like final cut pro, photoshop etc. (Yeah I know all about Gimp and resolve. They aren't really options) and vendors will have to support Linux drivers. This means Linux will need to decide what package format they are going go with universally. As of now its WAY too fragmented and snaps suck nuts.
Linux still has a LONG way to go honestly.
Robust : Ubuntu server with nothing running on it crashes after a week online. But hey, ubuntu is trash.
Linux is fantastic but all of the AI integration that learns and grows with you concerns me a bit, what if the AI can improve your system in ways that are too rapid and you lose the ability to understand those improvements ?, Imagine a feature of the system people would blindly trust to improve the system for them and they pay little to no attention to it one day something goes wrong and AI changes it so much that looking at it is no longer something you can understand let alone manipulate. That fancy AI people are trusting is not on your computer it is on a server and your computer simply has an interface to it.
Do you really want something on a server some where controlling your computer ?, what if the AI is controlled by a government (which is more likely than you think) you no longer have the control or security Linux is known for, Linux wont need any exploits at that point because AI is the exploit that people are openly embracing and giving away control to what ever company or government that controls the AI.
Not a future I would want to embrace, just a passing thought or more like an friggin nightmare steadily becoming a reality.
STOP DREAMING. Linux is on its top. National security considerations and incident like the xz backdoor will determine the use of Linux in the future. In future only companies like IBM/Red Hate; Microsoft; Lockheed Martin and Canonical will distribute Linux in the west and e.g. Huawei will do it in China. Linux will be re-nationalized and the versions will grow apart and in different directions. Watch the whole Tik/Tok discussion, that will soon be the fate of Linux too. I doubt the Cloud, because it is already getting too expensive for smaller businesses, Cloud is great to satisfy greed (Life long rent vs. one time sale).
Plus - large institutions like to purchase support with products and software- and with good reason.
"...tik/tok discussion..."
The fact that it was a person not in the linux development cycle that caught the xz exploit speaks of the SUCCESS of the free and open source model.
There is no permanently secure OS in existence. Linux has a very long future ahead of it.
Why do you re-nationalise?
Whoa man