Locally I run forgejo. Anything I want available to me away from home, Codeberg now. Before I would use Gitlab because I’ve used that a lot more than Github since like 2014

Definitely feels like it’s snowballing. From barely moving for like a decade after 2012 to really pumping after the Steam Deck came out. Hoping hardware shortages can be resolved well enough for the Steam Machine to hit. It’s the perfect form factor to me for my living room to finally make couch multiplayer comfortable for me and guests

It shouldn’t be hard by 2030 I imagine; particularly if you primarily or exclusively use open source software. The RVA23 chips announced I usually see people comment them as having synthetic benchmark scores at about the Apple M1 level. I regularly use a laptop with a Skylake dual core in it and a Raspberry Pi 5 run off a microsd rather than a m.2 NVME hat. With that in mind, if RISC-V designs don’t get any better than that in the next 4 years, they’ll still be better than hardware that I will still be using. I still use a Raspberry Pi 3. At work every now and then I’ll throw a gitlab runner on a 10 year old desktop to have another thing building when things are busy

There are RISC-V developer boards today with PCI-E slots that you can throw in pretty much any AMD graphics card. The big distributions Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Red Hat - they all support risc-v. felix86 is equivalent to box64 and FEX for x86 to ARM:

https://felix86.com/felix86-26-04/

Software support is solid already today. It’s hardware availability for the announced RVA23 designs that’s not mature yet. 4 more years and I imagine in most cases the experience of Linux on RISC-V hardware not being much different than on ARM or x86 hardware

More popular. More users. Higher percentage of desktop/laptop PC users

Flatpak permissions handled in a very easy to use way. No silent failure. No need to go to flatseal and users understand why something didn’t work how they expected and what they need to do to fix it

Growing Linux userbase eventually results in great day one support for new products from Qualcomm, ARM mali GPUs, PowerVR, etc. They’ll want to be able to compete year after year with Intel and AMD someday

Someday native Linux games rather than WINE/Proton will become the norm

Popular media software categories continue seeing open source software gain mainstream/professional viability. Talking like Blender, Godot, Krita today. Someday stuff like Kdenlive, Scribus, Inkscape, Ardour, GIMP, Darktable, etc will breach some line of good enough functionality, interface design. Someday the user base will grow enough and enough will make it into industry with their experience and opinions

Someday more normal Linux phone OS’s like PostmarketOS will become a solid piece of the mobile pie. Like ~5%. Like how desktop Linux is today. Good usability but still working up to streamlined. That’ll be way better than today. In what I imagine would be well over a decade when a Linux phone is as popular as desktop Linux is today, it’ll actually be pretty easy to use like desktop Linux is today

I see everything through the lens of the difference in user experience and mainstream penetration of 2010 compared to today. Like Kdenlive of 2010 compared to today. 2010 Blender vs today’s Blender. 2010 OpenOffice compared to 2026 Libreoffice. Gaming with WINE in 2010 to today with Proton/WINE/Steam. Unity/KDE/GNOME/etc of 2010 compared to today.

Don’t know if it’s still a thing in hiring for minimum wage jobs - what I remember were all the meyers briggs and similar test. When someone tells me their personality type from one of those test, I instantly start thinking that they never had a retail hell job stage of their working life

That’ll be nice to see. I like Collabora but haven’t tried hosting it. Opening that up and LibreOffice up side by side with the tabbed interface, barely any different. Maybe LibreOffice exposes way more buttons in each tab so maybe more intimidating but it looks pretty good compared to what I remember when the tabbed interface was first made available. Looking forward to seeing this progress

I want to first say that if it was 2005, hi-fi was expensive. Today hi-fi is cheap and you quickly run into diminishing returns at like ~$300 for around ear headphones but IEMs are cost effective and you get good quality starting at like $20. The gist of the history is that ChiFi changed the whole audio market for quality at affordable prices

Any bluetooth headset will work from what I’ve tried. You don’t have to spend a lot. You can use the Anker brand Soundcore bluetooth noise cancelling headsets

https://www.amazon.com/Soundcore-Cancelling-Headphones-Comfortable-Bluetooth/dp/B08HMWZBXC

https://www.amazon.com/Soundcore-Adaptive-Active-Cancelling-Headphones/dp/B0B5VHRX7F

Not sure if anything beats the Q30 at its price point but bumping up to the Q45 is an increase in build quality so even though my Q30 are multiple years old, I’ve heard from others who are more abusive of their gear it breaking. You can also use wireless TWS earphones. Like I have moondrop and earfun brand TWS (category of earphones that Airpods are). They’re cheap and are adequate at low prices though you can jump to the higher priced ones they have and get better mic quality. Examples such as

https://www.amazon.com/EarFun-Canceling-Snapdragon-Bluetooth-Detection/dp/B0D5M9SH1X

https://www.amazon.com/Moondrop-Space-Travel-Noise-Canceling-Low-Latency/dp/B0FGDBP2ZZ

The IEM market is insanely competitive. You can google best IEM’s for $30 and see dozens of brands you’ve never heard of but if you aren’t deep in the placebo, you’ll probably find any of them pretty good

I have no cadence. Unless whatever software you’re using is unstable, you probably won’t notice updates. I update on a whim which is often because it’s habit. Though sometimes it can be weeks between when I run the update

There are levels of paranoia that gets to the point of excessive time spent managing your footprint that could be better used elsewhere as I would imagine especially if you’re not a high value target. I am not a high value target

I feel like a lot of any residual bad talk on KDE stems from when Plasma 5 was new. It was rough for years. I’m guess by the Steam Deck it became pretty close to as visually consistent as all the default gnome applications. It’s a lot more stable now too compared to a decade ago. Not just the desktop environment, stuff like really wide appealing applications like Kdenlive are way better than they used to be. I think it makes sense that it’s only recent that Fedora promoted KDE Plasma to default/flagship along side gnome as equals. A decade ago, KDE Plasma 5 wasn’t there. Today KDE Plasma is. So maybe because of that and the Steam Deck, KDE is going to be more default than gnome in the future. I’m on KDE and I feel like a decade ago hot corners felt way more pleasant to me on gnome than KDE. It’s how I switch windows along with alt tab. Maybe more often use hot corner to see an overview of windows. Animations are great now

For me, needs to be good on a handheld. GOG mostly sells older games. Mobile/handheld gaming should be a major target to onboard users

Here’s a video about kdenlive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dIqJDy78TI

It doesn’t take 3nm/2nm chips to make a great computer. The Switch 2 is has a Samsung 8nm SoC. Steam Deck is TSMC 7nm. A Steam Deck has a better processor than my Intel N150 NAS. We don’t need the strongest hardware for self hosting. Don’t need it for a good gaming experience. Someday we’ll get second hand server parts salvaged into home equipment. The PS5 had that jailbreak. That can someday be a useful Linux machine. Someday the Xbox Series. Someday there’ll be a wave of RISC-V SBC’s that are better than the most recent raspberry pi

Improved over the last year

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-b580-opengl-vulkan-eoy2025

How it compares to Windows I wouldn’t know. I did use an Intel Arc for a while on Linux but switched to AMD for performance and idle power draw before the start of 2025. It was stable though with Steam Proton games and general day to day usage. Probably pretty good performance today relative to what it can do on Windows today compared to 2023-2024 when I was using Intel

When I first got the card, Switch emulation did not work. I think it was around mid 2024 when it started to work well

Don’t have anything recurring. More like random $10-20 thrown here and there. It’d probably be more often if it was all more integrated/streamlined. Pretty much the hyped up Flathub payments feature someday. I’d do that more often than patreon/opencollective/etc. I’ve had a patreon sub for a few projects over the years

I use GeForce Now for like 1 month a year or when they have a really good deal on a 6 month like a game I want

Nice. Waiting for RVA23 boards with a PCI-E slot to become widely available so I can test out box64 on those

It’s been good for the average PC user for like 5 years. Pretty much when Google Docs became pretty ubiquitous from elementary school through university. Then also stuff like turbotax becoming something people use through a website rather than a application they buy a disc for from the store. Steam Deck was when Proton maturity reached a point where it became suitable for most gamers. Steam games on Android is the next mainstream frontier to pull users away from Windows. Now the main barrier to me is improving prosumer software/making open source alternatives competitive like how Blender became. Pretty much need people to get away from Adobe and FL Studio/etc

That newer open source driver is still far behind but is progressing. Those graphics cards will have a great new life with modern kernels someday

Last I had it on my desktop was like 2 months ago. Oddities with games here and there was a deal breaker for me. Don’t remember if I could alt tab over video game windows yet. Not being able to alt-tab other windows over a video game is a deal breaker for me. There were random nich applications I don’t recall that didn’t handle dialog windows/file pickers well. That may be better by now. The file explorer is really bare bones even compared to nautilus. Not expecting Dolphin but I want something better.

High hopes though. I may give it another go as my primary with 26.04. The Cosmic applications are all pretty fast. I think I like how it looks more than KDE just KDE is way more fully featured