Linux Desktop 2022
So my most popular Linux Desktop app, kinto.sh, had its first commit on July 26th, 2019 — and it has been about 2 and half years since then. As of today kinto has 2,316 stars as we enter into the new year! The question remains, what will my focus be for 2022 in the realm of Linux Desktops?
- Sorun.me — Think of it as a concierge service on getting your distro and desktop set well from the moment you arrive, assuming you picked one of the few distros it supports. Initial support is Ubuntu Budgie & Pop!_OS, although most development is just going into Budgie right now. This is also geared towards creatives and programmers.
Touchpads and integrated graphics, tearing, or video decode support in browsers, etc, need a lot of help in my opinion to get set into their optimal states so that will likely be a major edition to sorun.me — setting those things right out of the gate. Distro maintainers seem uninterested in delving deep into support individual hardware setups, laptops, etc. It is kinda funny, sad and annoying all at the same time because most of the tools for a good experience are all there but as is often the case with Linux — some assembly is required. Sorunme will go to great lengths to take the assembly out of it so people can focus on their work, not getting basic hardware and normal setups working.
I will likely also include testing regiments as well to ensure that settings get applied properly as it’d be annoying to think you got something working when you don’t.
2. HiBlur — I would really like to create a pseudo blur look to things even in Budgie despite it not supporting blur, so I will likely come up with some creative ways to achieve this in low resource type ways.
3. HiDPI Doctor — Mixing hidpi and normal monitors together is a real pain — this will hopefully prove to resolve much of the annoyance by simply asking you if you’d like to restart an app if you move an app to a monitor that it clearly is going to look too huge or too small on. Why no one has created this already on x11 I do not know. Wayland is apparently a way forward so I imagine that could be why, but until a number of more things are worked out over there I will likely want this in the meanwhile.