I’m calling it 🙌

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    5·
    2 months ago

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

    • Joelk111@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months 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.websiteEnglish
        1·
        2 months 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.

    • lonesomeCat@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 months 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
      01·
      2 months 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
        1·
        2 months ago

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

  • ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de
    4·
    2 months 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.

  • Samsy@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 months 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.

  • Cora@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months 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.

  • Raccoonn@lemmy.ml
    3·
    2 months ago

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

  • dantheclamman@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months 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

    • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 months ago

      You can only abuse your customers so much

      you’d think so… but the number of friends and family who still put up with this shit is incredible. Ads in the start menu, copilot popping up every time you press a wrong button on the keyboard, the entire task bar changing overnight with ads and stock tickers…

      That last one pisses me off so much… “i dont want to learn linux!”… MF’er, microsoft just rearranged your entire task bar and start menu overnignt and you didnt seem to have a problem adapting your workflow… why would switching to gnome or KDE be any different?

    • knexcar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

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

      • Communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
        1·
        2 months 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)

        • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
          0·
          2 months 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.xyzEnglish
            1·
            2 months 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.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months 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.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 months 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.

    • Doorknob@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I know that the market verdict is “eh who cares”, but I really dont think anyone should think that invasive kernel-level anticheat is at all acceptable.