I’m calling it 🙌

  • Emily@lemmygrad.ml
    2·
    1 hour ago

    I fully switched to Debian in early 2024 and haven’t looked back. Highly recommend a full swap to everyone. Windows and Mac have nothing to offer.

  • wickedrando@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    2 hours ago

    2025 already was, and it continues. The ecosystem and Proton have changed the game (no pun intended), and even normies are starting to switch.

    I finally migrated from MacOS (other than Logic Pro) and Windows. Keep Windows around for some games but it is no longer first in boot order on any machine, and I am delighted.

    Every time I boot to Windows it drags ass forever, updates, reboots, repeats, and by the time I can use it I am not even interested.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    17·
    6 hours ago

    Gaming is the best commercial inroad I’ve seen, and exploding.

    But I think the “kernel anticheat” thing is going to be a hard wall until Valve works it out. Unfortunately, big OEMs don’t want to ship a “gaming PC” that can’t run Fortnite.

    • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      There probably would to be a kernel API to check for anticheat measures. Even then, the OS being FOSS means that you can easily create rootkits, obviously. So secure boot etc will also be a requirement for Linux anticheat.

      The real issue is devs not wanting to pay for hosting server side anticheat. I’d much rather have Valve convince them VAC is a good idea than to have them use intrusive anticheat measures or make Linux worse.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    411·
    9 hours ago

    Linux is that feeling of your computer not becoming worse every year. Windows and mac users dont know what that is.

    • Comrade_Squid@lemmy.ml
      1·
      37 minutes ago

      Mine gets worse, this is a me problem though. Writing automated scripts that I forget about or give non descript names to 🤤

    • Joelk111@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 hours ago

      I’m like actually excited for updates to my operating system. That hasn’t been true for Android or Windows in years. The last I remember being excited for an update was iOS on my iPod Touch, but from what I hear, people aren’t even really that hyped for iOS updates any more.

    • lonesomeCat@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      9 hours ago

      Honesty mine gets better, the more I learn about my system the more I can optimize it to my needs

    • FG_3479@lemmy.world
      16·
      4 hours ago

      You should try a normal distro like Mint or Zorin.

      Arch and its forks aren’t stable distros and they’re best for experimentation rather than daily use.

      • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
        5·
        4 hours ago

        Please research the meaning of stability when applied to Linux before parroting stuff. Also, who mentioned Arch?

      • 1984@lemmy.today
        2·
        4 hours ago

        I think it depends a bit. Your first times with arch is definently experimental. You install it, you learn to configure things, and at some point you probably want to reinstall, because you have done something that makes the system be buggy. I reinstalled lots of times in the beginning.

        But you learn proper Linux by using arch. At least if you actually do the install yourself by following the wiki. You will change a few things in a few config files and you will learn about Linux from that.

        After that initial phase of reinstalling lots of times, you start to feel like you know the system intuitively. You know where the system looks for things, which files are read. Then you feel like you really like arch because now you dont break it anymore, and if you do, you can fix it.

        Maybe its like that with other distros too. But for me, arch has been that journey. Im on a arch installation from december 2022 now appearently.

  • sawdustprophet@midwest.socialEnglish
    271·
    10 hours ago

    It is 2010. It is the year of the Linux desktop.

    It is 2018. It is the year of the Linux desktop.

    It is 2026. It is the year of the Linux desktop.

  • Zoldyck@lemmy.world
    32·
    11 hours ago

    Linux gaming also taking off. New Jolla phone on the way. Valve is also being helpful. On top of that the ‘Buy European’ movement also comes at the right time.

    I dare to say it’s looking pretty good

  • Samsy@lemmy.ml
    47·
    12 hours ago

    I mean its free. Installer are incredible easy. Steam says 90% of games are compatible. Libreoffice has all the features.

    The last straw are manufactures delivering hardware with M$ bullshit preinstalled.

    • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      8 hours ago

      You can actually buy Linux computers from dell and Lenovo and they’re even cheaper because you don’t pay for the Microsoft license

    • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
      17·
      12 hours ago

      Yeah, that’s not a straw, though. It’s like a redwood. A forest of redwoods.

    • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      11 hours ago

      You can technically buy a Chromebook instead. Apparently they kick up a real fuss if you try to install your own OS on it though, Not that I’ve tried.

      • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        2 hours ago

        You just have to Flash coreboot, I have three chromebooks deployed with family, one with mint and two with Endeavour. Even Touch and audio drivers work for those specific models (Acer Santa and Asus Babytiger).

      • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        I got GalliumOS onto an old chromebook last year. It was a bit of a fight and there are a couple parts if you mess up it’s possible to brick it entirely. Gallium was specifically for chromebooks, it’s been discontinued last I knew, and getting a different os in there sounds even more painful to me… But yeah you can cram Linux into one!