 Hey guys, I just want to wish everyone a happy New Year. So I have had COVID here for the last week or so And I've been quite ill and here in the last couple of days It's it's taken a turn for the better I can obviously now speak where there was a couple of days where I really couldn't speak there was about four days Where I just didn't get out of bed because of a fever and coughing and I was very weak So weak that I didn't like standing up for more than a couple of minutes So I just stayed in bed so weak you could just you know, push me over and I fall over You know, it had me down and out for a little bit but today obviously, you know I feel well enough I can do one of these quick phone vlogs here these boomer vlogs and I imagine here in a couple of more days I can get back to a more normal routine now one of the things that got sidetracked by me getting sick was you know, typically a Lot of Linux youtubers will do like predictions for 2022 and I get requests for that at the end of every year Of course, you guys missed it this week, which I had a video planned for but I never got around to it because obviously Getting sick, but you know today I thought I would just do a quick rundown of some of my predictions for 2022 off the top of my head And these are going to be related to Linux. So Linux predictions number one I think Ubuntu's main addition will finally drop the GNOME desktop environment I think they're finally going to see the light on that Now is that a Guarantee no, I would say if I had to rank that from 1 to 10 how confident I am on that I'd say I'm about a 4 on that Right, I think Ubuntu should drop GNOME, but I'm not sure they're that committed to it But number two my second prediction. I am much more confident in I think Ubuntu or canonical in general will drop snaps because Obviously, it's not improving. It's got a lot of problems snaps have just never gotten better and Canonical has a history of creating their own technology and then abandoning it They've done this many many many times over the years and I think this is going to be the case It's not worth it for them to fool with the snap packages anymore I think eventually they're just going going to go with flat pack I think they're just going to adopt red hat standard Which I think will be good for app images because I think a lot of community distributions wouldn't want to You know adopt a global standard that's a corporate standard like you know red hats flat packs I think a lot of community distros will start giving app images a serious look number three I think Microsoft Office for Linux will finally be released Microsoft has been releasing software for Linux You know something that people never thought was possible before but now you mean you've had Skype on Linux for years recently Microsoft released teams on Linux. I think eventually Microsoft sees that there's a need for office on Linux. I think that is on its way and I feel Pretty confident in that like I'd give that like a eight out of ten on my confidence skill My number four prediction is that Adobe will continue to pretend that Linux just doesn't exist Even though Microsoft will start releasing serious professional software or Linux Adobe won't Adobe will continue to pretend like Linux doesn't exist and they will continue to ignore us number five I think Nvidia they're not going to open source their drivers That's just not going to happen But I think Nvidia will start doing some code dumps, you know Or they just dump a massive amount of code to like the Nuvo project and say here's some code You guys can look at it see if you can figure it out and if you can reverse engineer it and make it work And your open source drivers go ahead and video is not going to do that work for them Unfortunately, so I still think the Nuvo drivers the open source Nvidia drivers are still going to be bad and quite frankly The Nvidia proprietary drivers are still going to be quite bad too in comparison to the Windows drivers Number six, I think the steam deck is going to be a massive success I think it's going to be a huge success for Valve, but I do think it's going to ship late And I'm pretty confident on that prediction. I give that a ten out of ten that it's not going to ship on time Number seven, I think we finally see a Linux distribution that ships emacs as its default window manager I think it's way past due that we see a emacs centric Linux distribution Prediction number eight for 2022 is slack where still will not see a new release It's been what five six years since the last release of slack where we're not going to get one in 2022 either Prediction number nine is I think at least five of the top ten distributions on the distro watch top 100 list Will be based on arch by the way I see that as almost a certainty because arch is clearly on an ascension right arch and arch based distributions They're clearly where all the action is these days as far as desktop Linux and number 10 for my predictions for 2022 is Microsoft is going to buy Sousa Linux and that is not out there crazy, right? Because Sousa actually gets bald and sold like every couple of years, right? They're constantly being bald and sold, you know from other larger corporations and Sousa I think the last time they sold they only sold for two and a half three billion dollars You know a really tiny amount of money compared to a multi trillion dollar company like Microsoft so they could easily buy Sousa like it's just pocket change for them And I think Microsoft wants their own enterprise Linux distribution I just think it makes sense to eventually just buy one and Sousa again It gets bald and sold all the dang time. So why not? So that's my predictions for 2022 I do again want to wish you guys a happy new year I hope each and every one of you just have a fantastic 2022 and I do want to thank all of you guys that sent good thoughts and prayers This week as I was trying to fight COVID. Anyway guys peace