tl;dr: At KDE's Akademy 2026, longtime UX designer Scott Jenson argued that Linux desktop design has stagnated for 20 years by copying Apple and Microsoft, who have themselves stopped innovating. He urged open-source projects to experiment beyond the WIMP model, particularly around "working memory" (addressing the desktop's statelessness) and designs optimized for widescreen monitors. Jenson demonstrated prototypes including a widescreen-focused layout with an Exposé-like tiling model, an Obsidian Canvas-inspired clipboard, and privacy-preserving attention telemetry—suggesting locally-run small language models could enhance these ideas without the ethical baggage of frontier AI.