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I think a lot of people would enjoy it if they gave it a chance. I wish I had sooner.
I think it’s really matured in the last few years. I’ve used linux on and off for the last 20 years, but things only tipped in favour for me at least about 2 years ago. For me it’s a combination of the polish of KDE, and the maturity of Wine/Proton for gaming. Before that I was dual booting but spending most time in Windows because I’d get in the habit whenever I started playing a game.
So I think despite the jokes, now really is the “year of the linux desktop” because it’s finally tipped over to being an all round 24/7 good choice for most people.
I’ve used Linux pretty consistently since about 1995-96. In the 90s, it was for the nerdiest of the nerdy computer science students. In the aughts canonical and others brought in a lot of attention, polish, and funding. That knocked off some of the biggest rough edges. Making it a perfectly valid daily driver for general computing for anyone. The 2010s was the decade of wine, proton, steam, and valve. Tearing a gaping hole in Microsoft’s platform lock in. The 2020s are shaping up to be the decade of OEM support. From Tuxedo, to System 76, to framework, to valve themselves.
The last big hurdle was hardware designed to work with and shipped with Linux. It’s been proven now. And there’s no taking it back. There can still be catches and pain points. Proprietary software requirements and bespoke hardware. DRM. But that’s becoming less and less acceptable. I’ve switched my 70 year old parents. Once they’re up and running it’s been less constant support than windows.
This is a followup to their Screw it, I’m installing Linux article in November.
Since that article was published, I have dealt with one minor catastrophe after another. None of that has anything to do with Linux, mind you. It just meant I didn’t install it on my desktop until Sunday evening.
Did it last month, love it, simple and no annoying stuff. Should have done it years ago.
Its interesting the argument of it’s not MS is now It’s NOT MS
The argument changed from “It’s not Microsoft” to “It’s not Microslop”.
Saw this on Reddit earlierIt’s awesome. It’s just missing clippy somewhere, somehow. Don’t know how i’d fit it in there though, maybe just googly eyes over the p.
Wait, Clippy was not helpful but at least pulpy and funny. I honestly miss that sorta stuff in software. Everything is so minimal and sterile these days. I mean, I use Neovim and prefer finding ways use my terminal for things, but I love my themes to be fun and still useful at least. I wish there was a local LLM you could run with Clippy as the animated face of it lol.
This is so amazing.
Omg, I love this! Thank you
Profile picture checks out
lol that just occurred to me too
I need that XP wallpaper.
Sure.
But like, the author’s got some Bad Habits they are trying to bring over, and seem to consider their inability to replicate them as a problem?
I can’t find official apps for Airtable (which I use for work), Spotify, or Apple Music, but they all work fine in the browser in the short term, and I’ll revisit this later.
So, “I have to run these websites, that I used to run in dedicated memory-hungry Electron apps, in a browser instead” is something that’s missing? TBH, seems like a feature to me. Heck, things like Discord and Spotify run better in a firefox derivative than they do as “standalone apps” on any OS, Windows included.
At least in the case of Spotify, there is an electron app for Linux, too, so I don’t know why the author is having trouble finding it.
My first Linux installation was some godforsaken early 0.99 kernel with X. Been running on desktop since Debian 1.3. Been a minute.
Every time I try to switch to Linux it’s a complete disaster, and I don’t know why. Latest is that I installed Ubuntu, and all was working for 30 mins until I realised that Firefox was “stuck” and unclickable. Could not close it or interact with it. Last year I tried Kubuntu and it had problems with audio wavering in speed and Steam making the whole system borderline unusable when downloading. I read with envy feedback from all those who seem to have no issue. I’m kind of fed up about it actually.
try using something other than ubuntu-based systems, like CachyOS or fedora. It’s likely a hardware issue. I’ve always had problems with Ubuntu-based distros that i never seem to have with arch-based or fedora-based.
Good idea, will do.
I’m also in the “cursed hardware” camp. Whenever the support for my OS runs out, I usually need to try 2 or 3 distros to find one where everything works out of the box. It’s a bit annoying, but doable on a rainy afternoon.
I don’t know why, one laptop I tried years ago to use linux on had issues with so many distros. Mint the touch pad didn’t work, debian the wifi, manjaro the screen was funky. But one worked pergectly fine, Parrot, another debian distro which was weird because debian and mint didn’t work. And all the isos were current builds
Exactly my experience.
was working for 30 mins until I realised that Firefox was “stuck” and unclickable.
I had an issue like that come and go on Gnome (Ubuntu’s default desktop environment) with Firefox and Chrome. I never tracked down a root cause.
I switched to KDE Plasma, instead.
I feel like Gnome is going through a finding itself phase, right now.
Edit: That’s the beauty of open source. I can help fix the problem, or…if I can’t…I can nope out of the way onto another solution until it is solved.
