Re: I asked Hacker News what developers want from a desktop, and this is what they said

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Hi,

> * Make upgrades painless.
hopefully solved by rpm-ostree

> * Other improvements to updates (not necessarily upgrades): make them
>   happen in the background, and provide a way to roll back if something
>   isn't good. Also this for user tweaks rather than just updates.
hopefully solved by a combination of rpm-ostree and flatpak.

> * Give the ability to have package X move at a pace I choose. Separate
>   dev stack from base OS.
hopefully solvable by flatpak versioned runtimes

> * Hardware compatibility just works. (Wifi, sound, HDMI, graphics,
>   suspend, etc.)
eek.

> * Mixed DPI multi-monitor support.
hopefully solved by wayland

> * Look nice, better fonts, general usability, etc.
hopefully solved already?

> * Cross-distro packaging
flatpak.

> * Containerized GUI apps
flatpak.

It seems like we're already going in the right direction, modulo hardware
compat, which is just really hard.

I do find it interesting no one talked about out of the box multimedia
support.

--Ray
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