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If you could give 10 years of development time to up to 10 software projects, which would you choose?

  • You can choose up to 10 software projects.
  • Each project receives 10 years of development time as if all the programmers worked continuously for that duration, following their current working methods.
  • After choosing these 10 (or less) projects, everything else remains unchanged in the world, as if time has been frozen for 10 years.

Which projects do you choose?

MJBrune ,

If I truly had this power, I’d somehow get far more engineers on ReactOS then use all 10 uses on ReactOS. ReactOS is honestly the thing that is going to replace Windows if anything does. Linux is just too different and not user-friendly. People can argue it is now or it’s growing that way but realistically the underlying Linux ethos is that “you should know your computer.” Ain’t no one wants to know their computer. They just want to use it. ReactOS is just 50 years behind Windows at this point.

averyfalken ,

Linux mint is pretty basic to use if I’m being honest

MJBrune ,

It’s basic, laggy, and doesn’t work with Minecraft, setting up Xbox controllers on it is hit or miss and requires you to know your computer more than not. Had to use a sketchy github repo xone. Even using a Wacom tablet with it has some pretty silly bugs like with the tablet setting, I told it to absolute map to my left monitor, but it was mapped to my right. I switched to the other monitor on this list, was still mapped to my right. No way to map the tablet to the left monitor. Getting Rocket League to even run was sketchy and I had to install the Steam flatpak over the official repo version, no clue why but otherwise it’d hang on installing Direct X.

So yeah, a bunch of extra annoying work that no one wants to do at best and at worst removes absolutely needed functionality I need for my workflow. I used Linux as my daily driver from when I was in college in 2008 and into my first and second jobs. In 2014 I dropped it because my third job required Windows. I then realized how much easier everything really was on Windows and what I had been putting myself through to simply manage a decent desktop environment. I still dual boot and even today I was in Linux Mint with Cinnamon but I still end up on Windows for the majority of stuff I want to do.

averyfalken ,

I experience literally zero of those issues you mention. Literally I experience more issues on windows than I do with mint

MJBrune ,

Yup, anytime I ever bring up issues like this to Linux users “Oh yeah, that’s never happened to me” and “You must have done something REALLY messed up!” is the typical response. Whereas if I ask Windows or Mac users who used Linux “Yeah, that’s Linux for you, every time I’ve tried it.” It’s silly to even try to bring it up at this point because I know the canned responses of “well it works for me.” which is why you still use Linux and most people don’t. You just have the exact setup that Linux caters to.

averyfalken ,

You mean a bog standard motherboard with CPU and nividia GPU mostly used for gaming and webbrowsing.

Eta windows in the only is I have ever had issues with printer drivers on as well now that I’m thinking of it

Eta though on we hardware like the tablet that particular set up does have its known issues but I’m a keyboard and mouse gal personally

MJBrune ,

I mean that’s exactly what I have. Simple Nvidia 3070 with some random Mobo and 64 GB of RAM. An Xbox controller and a Wacom tablet aren’t exotic. Most people will have an Xbox controller if they play any racing game or vehicle game on PC. Lots of artists exist. Wacom tablets are for drawing and are not a keyboard/mouse replacement but are used alongside them for things like Krita, Gimp, and Blender.

CUPS typically works for all printers on Linux, it’s one of Linux’s strongest systems. In my opinion, the better move is to never need to print anything. Print everything to PDF, sign digitally, and send stuff to my phone if I need it on the go.

netchami ,
  • Mesa
  • Noveau
  • Wine
  • Proton
  • RedoxOS
  • GNU Hurd
  • KDE Plasma
  • Kdenlive
  • LibreOffice
  • Nushell

Edit: There are even more projects that need some development like Linux, Wayland and some BSDs

Muffi ,

Blender, FreeCAD and Godot! Amazing pieces of software, that I can’t wait to see what develop into.

H2207 ,
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  • Linux

Obviously

  • Wayland

So we can finally say goodnight to X

  • XFCE

For low-end devices and people who don’t like bloat, we can still have a modern desktop.

  • Nouveau / NVK

Nvidia are currently dominant, so new users probably have Nvidia GPUs.

  • Open-source AMDGPU stack.

Why not? I’m only five items in.

  • Blender

I want fast fluid simulations and RTGI in eevee.

wookiepedia ,

I’d throw all the development time into EMACS. It’s a great operating system, but lacks a good text editor.

serratur ,

Linux kernel, Gnome, KDE, Wayland, box64/86, wine.

averyfalken ,

I’m similar except cinnamon

severien ,

DarkTable

GIMP

KDE

Kdenlive

tomatol ,

Whatever enables me to boot different OSs from my phone or arm devices including dual booting and booting from external storage without missing drivers

Anti_Weeb_Penguin ,

Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Touch, Ubuntu Touch and Ubuntu Touch.

euphoric_cat ,
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    Anti_Weeb_Penguin ,

    Because it’s a joke, i love Ubuntu Touch but i still prefer AOSP.

    Manifish_Destiny ,

    Proton wrapper Gadot or similar Cura slicer Linux mint Kenshi 2 New stalker AMD Drivers

    Fizz ,
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    Linux, Wayland, Firefox, kde, proton, Pipewire.

    Nobara, kden live, free cad, only office.

    Tagger ,

    Can I give two projects 50 years each?

    starman OP ,
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    That would be very unpredictable but also fun

    Tagger ,

    Then I’ll go Google bard and chat gpt3. Having both of those being massively advanced could have some really interesting consequences.

    Tagger ,

    Or go with a self driving car project as that’s consistently ‘10 years away’.

    starman2112 ,
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    If one of those is Star Citizen, it may actually release in our lifetime

    kool_newt ,

    Something for all the business people who demand MS Exchange and get them to shut the hell up.

    Bring DJBDNS up to modern standards, rewritten in Zig, optional ability to integrate with systemd.

    Enterprise Arch Linux

    A program written in Crystal that allows you to define computer networks in a DSL and generates diagrams, basically UML but much better.

    GNU Hurd

    Plan 9

    SnipingNinja ,

    A game engine designed around efficiency so that developers can focus on mechanics, graphics, etc

    Edit: alternatively a reverse engineering AI which can reverse engineer anything from isa to video games and more

    fiqusonnick ,
    • A CUDA-accelerated JPEG-XL library
    • An AMF-accelerated JPEG-XL library
    • A QSV-accelerated JPEG-XL library (can you tell I hate AVIF and HEIC?)
    • Godot
    • Godette
    • 5 projects developing quantum-proof cryptography
    Manifish_Destiny ,

    Doesn’t quantum proof cryptography already exist?

    fiqusonnick ,

    Well yeah but cryptography needs 2 things more than anything: variety and research. Variety so you can quickly switch ciphers if some vulnerability comes up, and research to publish those vulnerabilities so that bad actors aren’t the only people who know about them.

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