I’m not proposing anything here, I’m curious what you all think of the future.
What is your vision for what you want Linux to be?
I often read about wanting a smooth desktop experience like on MacOS, or having all the hardware and applications supported like Windows, or the convenience of Google products (mail, cloud storage, docs), etc.
A few years ago people were talking about convergence of phone/desktop, i.e. you plug your phone into a big screen and keyboard and it’s now your desktop computer. That’s one vision. ChromeOS has its “everything is in the cloud” vision. Stallman has his vision where no matter what it is, the most important part is that it’s free software.
If you could decide the future of personal computing, what would it be?
Better documentation for any distribution not called Arch. Better bugtrackers for all major projects? (KDE, Thunderbird etc)
We need documentation standards on the level of OpenBSD
I’m surprised how great BSDs documentation is despite having a smaller userbase than even linux. Probably a result of less fragmentation.
Less fragmentation is part of the reason. The other part is that BSDs mandate documentation for their component software. Documentation by developers is obviously better than those created by regular users (like the arch wiki). Arch wiki is actually phenomenal considering that it’s by the user community.