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Support for auto cloud sync from vendors, or just auto cloud sync of setting between devices.
DE stability. I keep a Mac around for times when Gnome is kind of broken.
cmd shortcuts which don’t interfere with app shortcuts.
Powerful desktop Arm chips.
Gui to manage services.
Gui to manage firewall.
Easy fleet management tools.
A real terminal services and Remote Desktop solution.
Desktop icons.
Tighter userland security.
Tighter OS security. Mostly dm-verify and fs-verify.
Tiling support. (There are extensions, but I need to experiment.)
Not having to recompile out of tree kernel modules after a kernel upgrade.
Base and extras being cleanly separated.
Linux is the king of fleet management tools.
That would be Windows.
For server config management there are lots of tools. FreeIPA and Ansible will do quite a bit, but when getting into stuff to manage Linux desktops fleets there isn’t a lot of endpoint management out there.
Fleet Commander is the main effort out there, and then Red Canary.
gnome is broken but there are better DEs imo
There really isn’t.
It’s only every so often with extensions, and every release reduces the number of extensions I use.
which one? did you try firewalld or opensnitch?
you mean the specific icons of an other OS, or something else?
manually, or even automatically? if it's the first, check out DKMS
Which which one?
I use firewalld regularly. Firewalld isn’t a GUI, and it’s a wrapper around Nftables and/or iptables depending on the distribution.
I haven’t tried opensnitch.
Not having to use a Gnome extension to get desktop icons. 🙂 Although, other DEs aren’t much better.
DKMS is setup, and I still have to plan my kernel upgrades due to the compilation time.
netfilter, iptables, or one that is based on them
that's right, but it has an official GUI: https://firewalld.org/documentation/utilities/firewall-config.html
it has per-app rules, and can show a popup for programs that don't yet have a rule. you can also limit the access by time, destination, and port
in my experience every kind of update requires planning and a reboot because incompatibilities between new libs and already running older programs will cause problems. but DKMS may help in making it less of a work