Some Works In Progress You're Looking Forward To?

Cosmic
- This one is really close!

NVK drivers for nvidia GPUs

More nixOS development. It's the reproducible builds on the OS scale, one configuration file that will always generate exactly the same system when run, and you can update and rebuild from that file without restarting the system in most cases. This should make triangulating and fixing distro issues much easier, as well as making a distro easier to maintain from the user side.
- Wait, it's like docker, but for entire OS with packages, configuration and stuff like that?
  
  Yes, and every package specifically defines the exact version of its libraries that it needs and the system symlinks everything together package by package, so there's no chance than an update will break something further upstream. The configuration file also controls things like MySQL configuration and user permissions so you can get literally the exact same system. I think even docker doesn't control for library versions with its regular configuration.
  EDIT: And it keeps older versions of the configuration file and its symlink arrangement around, so if something goes wrong, you can reboot the machine and select an older version from the bootloader.
  
  Better than Docker in terms of reproducibility. While Docker containers are usually more or less reproducible, Docker images are not as the Dockerfiles depend on lots of external state such as the repositories of the distro used as a base image. This is also partially true for NixOS, but it's far more realistic to pin a version of nixpkgs (the Nix(OS) repository) than do the same with Debian repositories. The new Flake format even provides a way to pin nixpkgs by default.

I don't realistically expect to see any progress here but video hardware acceleration gaining first-class support in popular applications would be a nice dream. The one area Linux is complacent to be "inefficient".
One of the KDE devs has been working on some magic that might keep application state even after the desktop crashes.
Chimera Linux.
- You must be confusing Chimera Linux with something else. The project had a new release over a week ago. https://chimera-linux.org/news/

Wayland on Plasma (sure, it works but still work in progress)
Lapce (like vscode but native)
Proper keyboard and screen sharing for Wayland
- So many Wayland...
  
  too many.

bcachefs
the EEVDF scheduler
- Bcachefs sounds incredible.
- it sucks that bcachefs cannot be run as a dkms as it cannot be run as a module (only built-in)
  
  It is coming in 6.7, I think. What are the advantages of bcachefs over something like ext4 or btrfs?

Helix editor, especially plugin system
- With this and neovide intergration I'll probably switch to helix.

- Wasn't this the one originally abandoned by Mozilla and then getting picked back up by someone?

I'd love to see more work on Nvidia for wayland

Oculus on Linux, but thats a slow project
- I just bought a Valve Index instead. Better tracking anyways with lasers now.

Lapce
- Ooh, this one is promising!

Bcachefs getting merged in the kernel

System76 Virgo
CosmicDE
Wayland in general

A Synergy/Barrier/Input-Leap for Wayland
- Note that Input Leap will be supported on a Wayland session in GNOME 45 / Fedora 39 thanks to the new InputCapture portal and Peter Hutterer's libei work.
  Barrier seems to be dead upstream and Synergy is closed source though, so those 2 probably won't get updated soon
  
  Yeah I've been following along, just want Waylamd support for Inout Leap on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

Pretty niche, but:
https://github.com/canboat/canboat
Allows me to interface a PC to a canbus in an efficient manner. I wrote an autopilot in perl using that, but I would like to see the project mature to the point where it is stable enough for production environments.

- This one's exciting!

VSCodium has a Wayland version already. On firefox, you have to enable it if it doesn't do it by default.
The rest are the same with yours but add wayland allow tearing support for better latency in videogames.
- I should add this is for Flatpak apps!

- Looks promising. A piece of software I didn't know I needed.

Polonium - autotiling for KDE 5.27. Ever since KDE Plasma broke Bismuth on wayland, i've been running with bare Plasma. Polonium is the first project to work (mostly) as Bismuth used to, although it's just one developer working on it as far as i understood and it still has a bunch of bugs. But really looks promising.
Also, KDE 6 (which will break everything again probably) :D
- Careful, @Bro666@lemmy.kde.social will call you rude. He does that. I think it's a syndrom.

Apart from what's already been mentioned, I'm eager to test Spacedrive

Mundane stuff for the most part.
New releases for Alpine and Void.
Newer packages being added to Void.
Hoping for a Black Friday sale at Racknerd.
Bug fixes to Node-Red.
Flexible scaling of storage in ZFS.
- I haven't tried it personally but I found the link somewhere https://racknerd.com/blackfriday
  I thought about going with them but I chose Hetzner instead.
  
  It's here! Thank you.
  Hetzner's reliability is starting to be questioned, and their verification process seems to be a pain. In not going to put critical loads up there anyway, so I suppose it's fine. Thanks

Rpm-ostree: more robust apply-live updates; local rpm package upgrades without needing to remove previous versions first
Thunderbird/K-9 Mail: continued work on modernizing the UI and features of both desktop and mobile versions
GNOME: smoother animations and increased performance for low-end GPUs and IGPs (triple buffering implementation, etc.)
Firefox Mobile: site isolation