The startup-scene dev message board Hacker News has an "Ask HN" section, and I used it to ask what developers want from a desktop in 2017. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12703836> Here's a summary of what they said: * Make upgrades painless. This is often presented as "make it LTS or rolling", but in digging further, it's almost always "I don't want to have to devote a day of downtime to upgrading twice a year". * Other improvements to updates (not necessarily upgrades): make them happen in the background, and provide a way to roll back if something isn't good. Also this for user tweaks rather than just updates. * Give the ability to have package X move at a pace I choose. Separate dev stack from base OS. * Hardware compatibility just works. (Wifi, sound, HDMI, graphics, suspend, etc.) * Mixed DPI multi-monitor support. * Look nice, better fonts, general usability, etc. * Cross-distro packaging * Containerized GUI apps -- Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; Fedora Project Leader