• 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
    7·
    7 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
      2·
      7 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
        2·
        7 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
          2·
          7 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
            2·
            7 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.