The startup-scene dev message board Hacker News has an "Ask HN"
section, and I used it to ask what developers want from a desktop in
2017. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12703836> Here's a summary
of what they said:

* Make upgrades painless.

  This is often presented as "make it LTS or rolling", but in digging
  further, it's almost always "I don't want to have to devote a day of
  downtime to upgrading twice a year".

* 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.

* Give the ability to have package X move at a pace I choose. Separate
  dev stack from base OS.

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

* Mixed DPI multi-monitor support.

* Look nice, better fonts, general usability, etc.

* Cross-distro packaging

* Containerized GUI apps


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Matthew Miller
<mattdm@fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader
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