To be fair, the HyprLand ecosystem has been a joy to use after many years away from Linux. I'm even dabbing into trying out neovim but some things are still easier and more comfortable for me in vscode 😔
Microsoft has been moving toward being Linux for years. WIndows 13 will probably be a distro of Linux with a "made by Microsoft" background that you can't change.
I don't see them fully doing it but it is amusing to imagine Microsoft giving Windows the Edge treatment and just stealing Linux's homework and pretending they jazzed it up somehow.
We have a thing called multiarch in Linux. It’s more than just “32-bit” versus “64-bit”, because remember Linux runs on about two dozen different major processor architectures, including ARM, RISC-V, POWER, MIPS, and a bunch of vintage ones.
You jest, but Steam's "Proton" fork of WINE has gotten pretty damn good, and occasionally, a bit better. Little to no Tom foolery needed, and you're off to the races with Nvidia's Linux drivers. I wouldn't recommend it for office environments.
Yup I have been playing games regularly on Linux it’s great few issue with anti cheat software, and I can’t use some of my gaming mouse features such as the swappable DPI
I tried it, but its not plug-and-play unless you have the exact right PC, and much of the software feels cobbled together, lacking polish. Great for servers, too many trade-offs for desktop. Life is short.
You must have some pretty out their hardware then? It's been pretty much plug and play for years. I'm running arch on my gaming rig with 0 issues, gaming works out of the box
Linux has been part of my life professionally and as a hobbyist. It's great when packaged for Raspberry Pi, SteamOS on a Steamdeck (and Android), and amazing in a Kubernetes environment or server deployment. Just too much arcana for daily desktop.
I've been daily driving Linux as my main os on my gaming rig, so far no issues headset works out of the box, gaming mouse also. Games have all worked using proton, only semi hackiness i had to do was install a few extra libraries to install battle net. But that also after installed and is running
I click on a thing in Windows and it works. Life is short. Bravo flatpack and proton for those who are willing to learn. Too many times I've been at the mercy of Linux priests, Google searches and magic command line incantations to perform basic tasks. I do much more than game.
Finally there is no standard binary for anything. Want to run an app on Arch? Go here. On Ubuntu, go there. The only quasi-reliable strategy is to command line compile your app. Do you want KDE or Gnome flavor? How do I get my printer driver?
It's never been practical for productivity, not a plug-and-play experience. Windows just works. Linux is fantastic, but my experiences on desktop have been poor.
I known there are alternatives, but for example GIMP doesn't accept the filters I use.
Pretty much Linux on desktop is niche, the $80 license for Windows is a tiny amount relative to my time. I've spent a lot of time over the past two decades experimenting with Linux and respect it immensely.
Over the years its been pretty bog standard hardware, and its always been something. Bluetooth & wifi the worst. Google search what command line incantation I need. Then crash with emulation.
Maybe now with vanilla mainstream its been better. However there are certain apps now I need: Photoshop...
Don't think so, the gap is huge between the best Linux desktop and MacOS, the only thing you can do on Linux Desktop is work, you're limited to entertainment and having a good time.
Sure like 10 years ago. But that's far from the truth today. My gaming rig runs linux full time outside of games like Apex legends with their anti-cheat I'm gaming perfectly fine
nope, linux is still too complex for the average user to grasp or care about
it has gotten better yes, but stating that a random year is "the year of linux on the desktop" won't work
also there's less than a month left to this year, great timing.
Not really the most complex part would be getting them to make a live USB and boot from it. Things like Fedora bluefin, has everything someone would need, just works, will update in the background with out user intervention, once rebooted you're on the new update.
Impossible. Richard Stallman is still alive. He got his programming skills in a deal with the devil, but everything has a price so as long as he lives free software will never dominate on the desktop. Someone would have to release a fully proprietary Linux, impossible due to LGPL.
As it should be, a proprietary linux os would be no better than any other proprietary garbage os. Nobody should trust a corporation not to steal your data and force ads down your throat
So the entire internet runs on Unix which Linux is basically open source flavors of. All of the servers in the cloud, at xitter, f*cbook, tiktagram and whatever run on some flavor of Unix, I bet microsoft's cloud servers don't run Windows either. Thank Bell Labs for setting it free and UC Berkley!
Azure has been majority Linux since 2019. They produce their own distribution for timing the edge devices for Azure. Hell, they contribute to the Linux kernel.
It's been a long time since Ballmer was in charge.
“It’s the year of Linux on the Desktop” — every Linux user since 1998
Apple did it better in 2001 with OS X.
I say that as a primarily Linux user for more than a decade. Love it…but heard this before. It does gets better and better but it doesn’t need to be a desktop OS, useful for what it is
I mean, if a large part of your business is consumer desktops, and you invalidate the hardware due to a software change.... uh. Deserved?
It is not my distro, but I've been selling linux mint to anyone whose computer says it wont run Win11.
what im saying is that pop os used to get an update every 6 months and now pop os hasnt gotten an update for more than 2 and a half years. im aware that the next update is coming with a new desktop environment. i just made a joke because the next update is becoming like gta 6 if you know what i mean
I had made it dual boot with Linux and regularly needed to go in via Linux to fix problems. Eventually I had had enough and pulled all the files through to the Linux partition and forget Windows Me.
I switched my mom and dad a few months ago (in their 80's, couldn't justify buying new hardware just to suit Microshaft). Showed them to use a #Perplexity.AI link I put on desktop for if they got stuck. Not heard a peep, brilliant. #Sorted #LinuxMint
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I use a customized version of that and a stripped down nvim config for more basic editing.
After RHEL got bought by those fuckers at IBM there's a vacuum. A Microsoft supported Unix system would be crazy rn
I'm still running a db driver written for .NET 2.5 in production. It works because of MS and I have to use it because of IBM
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html
Pretty much Linux on desktop is niche, the $80 license for Windows is a tiny amount relative to my time. I've spent a lot of time over the past two decades experimenting with Linux and respect it immensely.
Maybe now with vanilla mainstream its been better. However there are certain apps now I need: Photoshop...
it has gotten better yes, but stating that a random year is "the year of linux on the desktop" won't work
also there's less than a month left to this year, great timing.
Sure it is.
It's been a long time since Ballmer was in charge.
Apple did it better in 2001 with OS X.
I say that as a primarily Linux user for more than a decade. Love it…but heard this before. It does gets better and better but it doesn’t need to be a desktop OS, useful for what it is
But maybe that was the joke you were trying to make?
has been good
It is not my distro, but I've been selling linux mint to anyone whose computer says it wont run Win11.
About 50% chance of it actually booting each day...
But soon (hopefully)! 🤞
This year, like all previous years, was infact not the year of Linux desktop