Linux

Still waiting for a DE that's looks and acts like i3/sway but takes care of everything under the hood like monitor config, shortcuts for brightness, volume etc. Essentially everything Gnome or KDE does.

XFCE with polish/feature parity of Gnome (with Dash-to-panel), and Wayland support.

Theming, controlled one central place.

This goes for both Gnome (GTK, Qt, Gnome Shell) and Sway (GTK, Qt, Sway, Rofi, Waybar...)

Actual proper touch support, which includes a decent built-in keyboard (looking at you KDE...).

I love 2-in-1's, but I do wish touch support would go all the way. It's like... 70-80% there, with Gnome having a good keyboard and KDE having the better touch support overall. But it just needs to go the final stretch to make it a good experience.

KDE with GNOME design or GNOME with KDE functionality.

Consistency between all elements, apps and other things.

Well to wayland work with nvidia

Dunno, KDE Plasma has it all. I would not mind some design improvements, but that is what Plasma 6 will bring. I just need to wait :)

Configurable touchpad gestures on Plasma. And a non-nonsense gesture to open the overview effect (waiting for Plasma 6, already done :)

All the Wayland stuff related to gaming in GNOME.

Just install it and not have to care about anything system related. Just keep out of my way and let me do what I need to do. Linux, Windows, MacOS, the operating system should not be an end, but a mean.

If you need to update, just do it and don't bother me. I plug something, just show it to me. Something is proprietary? I don't care, just want it to work...

Better trackpad support on KDE on Wayland. I use multi-finger gestures all the time on my MacBook, and my System76 laptop supports them on Windows, but the only gesture that works on Linux is two-finger scrolling.

As a new linux user, I would like KDE to fix their trackpad gestures because they suck. Please copy Windows or macOS. And I want fractional scaling in GNOME without everything looking blurry.

Tabbed windows like Haiku has. I love that feature so much but I've only ever seen it on tiling WMs on Linux

Working Screensharing from first boot lmao

Ability to run Android apps.

I'm on a tiling WM. If I want a specific feature, I make it happen.

a better on screen keyboard for gnome

Well this isn't a DE thing but I would like good ray tracing and the new frame gen support for my AMD GPU.

• wayland on xfce & cinnamon
• not exactly DE, but wayland greeter on sddm

Since I am a GNOME user, and GNOME is the closest DE to perfection, integrating commonly used addons will be enough to make it the undisputable king.

Integrate:

• Dash To Panel, like how Tweaks has been
• gTile/Tactile for great multiple window tiling experience
• Resource Monitor, which shows upload/download internet speed, CPU and RAM usage
• indicator for Caps Lock, Num Lock, Scroll Lock and Shift
• colour picker that works on Wayland
• desaturation slider and colourblind filters like how KDE Plasma 6 has done

The amount of space all this currently takes on a 1366x768 screen is 18 pixels height.

I'm just mostly waiting for Plasma 6 so I can use all the Wayland goodies it comes with.

Another thing I'm looking forward to is Wine-Wayland to be ready.

Why's there an AI image attached to this question?

Desktop per monitor.

Trackpad gestures, KDE (like 3 finger swipes customisation). THEM TO STOP MOVING AROUND THE SETTINGS.

I want to be able to see true integration between Apps and the WM. I saw a lot of good stuff with the way that Instant Messengers, Downloaders and IRC clients and various accounts could be made part of the normal interface. Now everything is web apps, or worse, Web Desktop Apps, which is also a big huge Electron apps that are more Isolated from each other than ever.

The only things apps share today are notifications, and I could definitely have less of those.

Better support for gaming laptops with both igpu and dedicated gpus like in windows so that I can stop having to reboot when I want to go from portable mode to gaming mode