I’m calling it 🙌

  • 1984@lemmy.today
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    12 days ago

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

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      12 days 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.

      • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.website
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        10 days ago

        iOS has been getting a bit buggier for me these past few years, but iOS 26 is a whole other level of bad.

        With what Google’s been doing to AOSP, I just hope GrapheneOS and LineageOS can hold on just long enough until we can get some livable solution for Linux phones.

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    11 days ago

    The year of the linux desktop is different for every one. For me it was 2003. Haven’t looked back since and everytime I’m forced to use Windows, I feel like I need to take a shower.

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    12 days 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.

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      12 days ago

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

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    11 days ago

    I’m loving to see all these people jumping to Linux. I switched back in 2008 with Ubuntu 8.10. So much has changed since then.

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    11 days ago

    The year of the Linux desktop is whenever you make it !! For me, that was 2002, the year I ditched windows for good…

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    11 days ago

    You can only abuse your customers so much before they move on. I have long enjoyed using Windows, but when they announced my perfectly usable laptop wouldn’t be able to get 11 thanks to no TPM, and I had to go through a complicated set of hoops to manually install it, that was my breaking point. I will keep Windows for some limited stuff on dual boot on one machine, but elsewhere I’m going Linux only

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    12 days ago

    I’ll be trying to contribute to that!

    Already hit a difficulty since my workplace uses Microsoft for everything and the admins lock out third party stuff. I guess I can access files on outlook and OneDrive via browser based options but God they’re awful.

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      11 days ago

      I have no idea what any of those words mean and that makes me want to stick to Windows.

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        11 days ago

        xx-zones allows windows to place themselves

        dbus_annotations allows menu items (like file, edit, etc) to be searchable by other apps

        ext-tray allows tray icons to display things other than text in their menus (like sliders or whatever)

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          10 days ago

          I feel like most people dont know and dont care what that is and i definetly dont think its stopping people from using linux.

          • Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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            10 days ago

            xx-zones in particular is a huge deal for many very important usecases

            dbus_annotations is huge for me, but ext-tray fair enough.

            global shortcuts is also huge, plenty of people consider that mandatory.