I’m calling it 🙌

  • ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de
    16·
    6 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.

  • Cora@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    6 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.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    27·
    7 days 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
      6·
      6 days 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.

    • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      7 days ago

      There probably would to be a kernel API to check for anticheat measures. Even then, the OS being FOSS means that you can easily create rootkits, obviously. So secure boot etc will also be a requirement for Linux anticheat.

      The real issue is devs not wanting to pay for hosting server side anticheat. I’d much rather have Valve convince them VAC is a good idea than to have them use intrusive anticheat measures or make Linux worse.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
        6·
        7 days ago

        The real issue is devs not wanting to pay for hosting server side anticheat. I

        Or allowing self hosted servers. With actual mods that just ban people who are being jerks, and basic anticheat tools shipped to them.

        Whatever the issue and solution, the current state of the gaming market still makes mass linux gaming kind of impossible. Not from the anticheat games specifically, but from the OEM problem.

  • wickedrando@lemmy.mlEnglish
    18·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • dantheclamman@lemmy.world
    16·
    7 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

    • 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      6 days 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?

      • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        I think some people won’t be able to switch just because they’ve passed the point where learning new tech is possible. But I do think for those with the will to change over, it will increasingly actually be happening rather than being muttered a threat to Microsoft, especially because the main pain points of the past (software exclusivity) is starting to break down. Some games are now running better on Linux. MS Office is increasingly being superseded by alternatives like Gsuite, Libreoffice, or just learning to code in easy languages like Python/R. And unlike in the past when Microsoft overplayed its hand and changed course to regain users with Windows 7, 10, etc, this time it seems like they aren’t going to change. They are in too deep.

  • Raccoonn@lemmy.ml
    7·
    6 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…