• NTSync coming in Kernel 6.11 for better Wine/Proton game performance and porting.
  • Wine-Wayland last 4/5 parts left to be merged before end of 2024
  • Wayland HDR/Game color protocol will be finished before end of 2024
  • Nvidia 555/560 will be out for a perfect no stutter Nvidia performance
  • KDE/Gnome reaching stability and usability with NO FKN ADS
  • VR being usable
  • More Wine development and more Games being ported
  • Better LibreOffice/Word compatibility
  • Windows 10 coming to EOL
  • Improved Linux simplicity and support
  • Web-native apps (Including Msft Office and Adobe)
  • .Net cross platform (in VSCode or Jetbrains Rider)

What else am I missing?

    • overload@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      6 months ago

      Sure, for the mac pro line with specs that us nerds care about.

      I think some of those M1 mac airs are really affordable now though. For casual use it would be a good device for a tech illiterate person.

      • realbadat@programming.dev
        1·
        6 months ago

        Or a mini.

        I have an M2 mini I use for iOS builds, cheap enough for me to buy and stick in the rack to use for remote builds. I got that a year ago for $600ish iirc.

        • overload@sopuli.xyz
          0·
          6 months ago

          Yeah man. Apple still screws people when it comes to ram and storage options of course, but the base products are actually pretty good for the money.

          • realbadat@programming.dev
            1·
            6 months ago

            Yep… It’s permanently where it’s at at purchase.

            Which is fine, I don’t store anything on there (Jenkins automations to build, local git repo on another machine, output goes to NAS), but it’s ridiculous how much the upgrades cost.

            If I didn’t need a build target for iOS I wouldn’t have bothered with it, that’s for sure.

            • overload@sopuli.xyz
              1·
              6 months ago

              I might be biased running a NAS as well, but I’m not fussed about having a tonne of storage on-device. Yeah agreed it is bonkas how much they charge for that extra 8GB of RAM. Default should for sure be 16 by now.