I’m calling it 🙌
Thats why im switching to NetBSD
Deja vu 🤔
Wait, is it 2006 already?
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.
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.
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.
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!
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).
You can actually buy Linux computers from dell and Lenovo and they’re even cheaper because you don’t pay for the Microsoft license
Cheaper? Nah I want quality. And for the best, you have to pay more. Nothing is for free. /s
I mean we have Slimbook for Linux Hardware
Long live the Executive 14 99Wh - you’ll pry mine from my cold dead hands
And Tuxedo and System 76
Yeah, that’s not a straw, though. It’s like a redwood. A forest of redwoods.
Half-Life 3 confirmed
Just saying it so it’s out there
Confirmed by who? A rumer?
The year of the Linux desktop is whenever you make it !! For me, that was 2002, the year I ditched windows for good…
Fingers crossed for socials skills in FOSS communities, then it’s game over for big tech
Even if we have social skills, they’ve got the numbers.
Hear hear. The voice of our community, LazerDickMcCheese.
I spent several hours last night talking about FOSS projects and tech certifications to a guy in entry-level IT. I’m out here doing my best, guys
They’ll just take the ick out of his name when he assumes his PR/Community manager role
Nah, just add some fancy shit, like Dr. LazerDickMcCheese, esq.
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.
Windows just doesn’t feel like home anymore. You can’t control it, you can’t make it your own.
Linux is that feeling of your computer not becoming worse every year. Windows and mac users dont know what that is.
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.
Please research the meaning of stability when applied to Linux before parroting stuff. Also, who mentioned Arch?
Unbelievably ignorant take.
Arch and its forks are, in my view, the BEST options for a daily use desktop.
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.
✨I don’t get Advertisements built into my Computer✨
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.
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.
Honesty mine gets better, the more I learn about my system the more I can optimize it to my needs
Mine gets worse, this is a me problem though. Writing automated scripts that I forget about or give non descript names to 🤤
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.
Teams works on Linux and i think OneDrive is technically webdav. I avoid mixing Microsoft and Linux, but i believe the modern (web) applications should work everywhere.
Yeah, I think if it’s web apps it’s fine, just aren’t ideal. I was mostly frustrated I couldn’t use a third party email app or OneDrive integration app. It’s more a grievance with the university I work for, though.
Third-party email clients would work if not blocked for employers configuration.
That’s what I figured and I appreciate the confirmation. Since I work in education it’s probably a “better safe than sorry” approach since the laws on student privacy are actually enforced, unlike in corporate. (Obviously it’s security theater, though, as web apps and Windows integration make emails and files easy to steal anyway).
Xx-zones dbus_annotation and ext-tray get merged and implemented into kde and global shortcuts stop sucking and I’ll call it.
I have no idea what any of those words mean and that makes me want to stick to Windows.
Luckily you don’t need to. I didn’t know either until I read their next comment. And I’ve been using various Linux Distros for 15 years or so.
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)
I feel like most people dont know and dont care what that is and i definetly dont think its stopping people from using linux.
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.
World Revolution 2026 trust.
They come around more often than the Olympics.
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.
