• Victor@lemmy.world
    75·
    1 month ago

    Hot take (?): For anyone who has made the switch, it was the year or the Linux desktop. 🤷‍♂️

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      7·
      1 month ago

      Mine will be this year, I only have 1 system left to put Linux on.

      I’m just currently learning some RAW photo editors before I cancel my Lightroom sub.

      Fusion360 was dropped a few months ago when FreeCAD went 1.0 (after I learned it enough of course)

    • grue@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 month ago

      2017 for me!

      (I had been using Linux on some systems since 2002 and first tried it in the late '90s, but 2017 was the year in which I ditched Windows even on my gaming machine, permanently.)

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 month ago

        I’m assuming you mean gaming? Yeah, I rarely boot into Windows these days, honestly.

        Whatever it is though, it’s always a compromise. There are things with Windows we can’t get on Linux still, and there have been things with Linux which Windows still hasn’t provided, for decades. Either way you go is a trade-off. But when I installed Linux and started using it more than Windows, I consider that my year or the Linux desktop. When the only thing I booted Windows for was to launch Steam.

  • GluWu@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    1 month ago

    If '25 isn’t due to people knowing win10 is going to die, '26 will be when they realize it’s dead. Started during <10.whatever Ubuntu but have been running windows because I own a nvidia GPU that I want to use to play games. I’m confident in bazzite to go full time this year but I honesty want steamos on my main PC. I’ve used it for however many years since first batch steamdecks arrived and I love it. I promise to be a fanboy if steamos can do nvidia egpus and vr headsets with less that 5 minutes of tinkering.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
      131·
      1 month ago

      Lulz, normal people don’t give a crap about Windows 10 not being updated anymore, they won’t even realize it and worst case they’ll get a new computer when they get a warning that their hardware is no good anymore.

      You need a minimum of tech knowledge to care and there’s only two generations with a higher % of people who have that, the X and millennials. Zs and Alphas use mobile devices and hit a wall when they need to use a computer.

      • LouSlash@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        1 month ago

        Lulz, normal people don’t give a crap about Windows 10 not being updated anymore, they won’t even realize it

        To this day, many “normal people” use Win7 (and even XP) despite it being dead for a long time.

        Nonetheless IMO MS will somehow keep W10 on life support for quite some time after october of 2025 just for those people to finally switch to W11

    • hellofriend@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 month ago

      As much as I like SteamOS, it really bothers me that it deletes Waydroid when it updates. Idk why it does that but it’s irritating. Does Bazzite have the same issue?

  • KindaABigDyl@programming.dev
    2·
    1 month ago

    I’ve had this in my .zshrc for a while: alias $(date +%Y)="echo 'YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP'"

    If you type the current year in your terminal, it will say “YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP” lol