I’m calling it 🙌
Thats why im switching to NetBSD
Half-Life 3 confirmed
Just saying it so it’s out there
Confirmed by who? A rumer?
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.
The year of the Linux desktop is whenever you make it !! For me, that was 2002, the year I ditched windows for good…
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.
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.
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).
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.
That was the free space on my 2026 bingo card!
And my 2025 one.
And the last ten years’ ones.
For me, it’s
date +%sThe year of Linux on the desktop was the friends we made along the way…
It is 2010. It is the year of the Linux desktop.
It is 2018. It is the year of the Linux desktop.
It is 2026. It is the year of the Linux desktop.
Its the millennium of the linux desktop
This year for sure!
No you don’t get it, it’s different this time trust me bro.
Why would it be not the year of the Linux desktop?
For me the year of the Linux desktop has been every year since 2007.
2026 shouldn’t be the year of any one specific thing; 2026 should be the year of teaching the less inclined how to be conscious with their data and go over methods for taking back their data from whatever service they might use.
Based.
