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Some Works In Progress You're Looking Forward To? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by pastermil@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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What are some exciting projects that you follow and hope to see progress on?

I'll start!

Wayland greeter on SDDM
rust support on gcc
more Wayland adoption (especially VSCodium & Firefox forks)
Reproducible Build
ReactOS

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[–] squid@feddit.uk 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Oculus on Linux, but thats a slow project

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[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I just bought a Valve Index instead. Better tracking anyways with lasers now.

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