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

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