Linux distros already dominate the server world. But can Linux catch up to and surpass Windows and macOS in the desktop market?

This article was written around 6 months ago and it seems prescient to reflect on our future OS options/habits as we are currently sorting out our online community clusterfuck/fuck you Spez. I feel like many of us have felt the motivation to branch out into a flavor of Linux OS and have read about the brave who took the step only to come back and say “games don’t work” or that you need be a hackerman to run such a setup. Interesting light content to munch on and would love to hear from any brave pioneers who switched and are liking it. Better to start thinking on this now than in a year and change when so many of us will be corralled into the stocks and pushed into Windows 11.

  • AnakinSandlover@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I love Linux and have stubbornly tried in the past to exclusively use it, but some people really just need software (in my case Affinity Serif apps or Adobe) to work regardless of OS.

  • alex_02@fedia.io
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been coding on Windows and I have to say that it has been a bit painful at times to code specific functionality cuz the libraries are either none existing or implanting using the API by hand is just a pain, while on Linux it is pretty straightforward.

    Also, there are several things I’ve run into with Windows that makes me go o_O, or it is just clunky since my Linux setup doesn’t have all the extra garbage. The bloat has gotten worse on Windows 11 and IDK how. It is so bad that the last OVA Vbox image I downloaded to run in a VM was unusable. It was by default configured to use 8 GB of ram, would crash. Barely run, and functions were either glitchy or just unusable.

    I’m actually disappointed in the direction Microsoft has gone with Windows.

  • gibs@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    Is this article AI generated? 3 of the 9 points are literally the same point (Proton/Wine is getting better)

    • aksdb@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I think these kind of articles (“The [numer] best/reasons [topic/tool] of [year]”) have been generated before this years AI boom too.

      Just a few weeks ago someone posted a “9 best opensource email clients for linux” on reddit, where 5 of them were not open source, 2 were not available for linux and 3 were pure web based. Great.