What are the important milestones Linux has achieved this year?
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Valve is officially partnering with Arch (not just using it as the base for their distro).
Ooo neat I didn’t hear about this
Valrch and framemint are cute couples!
Real-time Linux makes it to the mainline kernel was a big one I can think of off the top of my head.
nVidia released drivers that aren’t a complete tire fire under Wayland.
(It’s more of a regular pile of discarded tires now, but it’s still dramatically better.)
Continued not to show me anything AI-related
I think It might’ve been last year but anti-cheat compatibility was huge. Still up to the studio to enable it but some games have.
Progress towards wayland is going steady which doesn’t mean much to those that don’t know much about Linux. But what that means is more modern features like VRR and HDR. Not completely here yet as far as I know but that wouldn’t have happened on X11
Note exactly a huge milestone but you can’t discredit the steady development of pipewire. Audio was annoying as fuck before it.
Honestly, I think we’re 3 years out from Windows being replacable for a gaming platform.
Anti-cheat is a big one (sure, there’s “support”, but if none of the games people play are supported, is that support?), but VRR and HDR are also huge.
That trifecta is the only reason I’m still sitting in Windows, and I find myself hopeful we land there sooner rather than later so I can dump Windows and never have to think about whatever dumb crap Microsoft is going to do next.
I think marked share on desktops has increased substantially more than the years before.
2% now, which is significant growth (seriously).
Pornhub’s 2024 statistics show that almost 5% of traffic came from Linux devices. This number doesn’t include PCs that are used purely for work (probably).
And 4% of gaming is on Linux. 5% of PH traffic ≠ 5% market share, because I bet mobile devices are part of their metric (and are they counting the same ones twice if the same PC uses a different IP?).
2% is excellent growth, but there’s a long way to go to even compete with Apple (which is second place at 20-25%, iirc).
I bet mobile devices are part of their metric
No, desktop and mobile are counted separately in the Pornhub survey.
You’re underestimating the market share as according to Statcounter and the Valve Hardware Survey the marketshare is at 4.03% and 2.03%.
Pornhub’s audience is 75% male, and Linux users are almost all male too (and … no offence guys but probably more likely to rely on porn), so I wouldn’t take that as a representative global figure.
Statcounter gives 1.4% which is much more likely to be unbiased (and sounds way more plausible based on my experience of real life).
and … no offence guys but probably more likely to rely on porn
Stay tuned for the 2024 Lemmy.ca survey as it will include questions about which operating system you use on your desktop and phone, let’s hope we can crack well past that 5% mark!
Wayland is usable now
For all major graphics cards. Except NVIDIA :(
I use it successfully with an Nvidia card
The only thing that doesn’t work is TF2
I too daily drive NVIDIA and hyprland, but it’s not a great experience.
Hyprland is worth the pain points but getting vscode or any other electron applications working is impossible.
For Dev it’s fine, neovim is great and anything that needs a webview can be cobbled together with Qwebengine or a web socket pretty quickly.
For work, however, I just have to go back to i3.
It’s actually quite fine for a while now. Sometimes I need to fallback to Xorg but that’s not related to Nvidia anyway.
Atomic desktop ftw.
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