7 Features and Applications all Linux Distros SHOULD SHIP WITH

I’ve tried a bunch of distributions, and I’ve played a lot with closed source systems, like Windows 10 and Mac OS X, and in dealing with all these systems, I’ve found I always lacked a few things in various Linux distros, so here is a list of various features and apps I’d like most distros to implement out of the box.

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Gestures for the trackpad This one is baffling to me. As of today, I’ve yet to test a distro that supports anything else than two finger scrolling. It’s actually pretty easy to add gestures to a Linux distro, with libinput-gestures, and the Gestures GTK app, and i don’t understand why distro builders don’t take advantage of these tools to create a more user friendly experience on laptops. There might be issues with libinput gestures I’m not aware of, or maybe they just don’t use laptops, but when every distro uses virtual workspaces, having the ability to three of 4 finger swipe to switch workspaces seems like a mandatory feature to include.

Kde / GS Connect Android is the most popular phone OS in the world, and phone - computer integration is awesome. I’d love to see Linux distros shipping with KDE connect, or its GNOME equivalent, GS connect. This tool allows you to use your phone as a remote for your computer, share notifications between the 2 devices, anwser text messages from your computer, and much more. This tool is great, and I think that apart from Zorin OS, which ships a re-branded version of it called Zorin Connect, most other distros ignore this fantastic piece of software.

Fractional scaling, per monitor if possible I know, Wayland can support it, and a config is available in GNOME, as an experimental option, but it’s almost 2020, and only having 2X scaling as an option is ridiculous. Fractional scaling might make some stuff blurry, and tax the GPU more, but it’s sorely needed on most of today’s laptops, since manufacturers insist on shipping ultra high resolution displays on small form factors. Hi DPI support, and fractional scaling needs to be implemented at some point, and made available by default, for Wayland, and for Xorg, which is still the solution almost 100% of distros ship with.

Complete App Store experience No distro comes close to elementary OS in this regard: it allows people to buy applications, on a pay what you want basis, it integrates links to donations for the developers, and it’s an awesome way to make users take notice of the fact that open source doesn’t mean free. Still, there are pieces missing from that experience, and the big one is restoring p ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EbfnoYrkqs