2025 is the year of Linux on the desktop
this post was submitted on 13 Apr 2025
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Each day it becomes easier and easier to use Linux (e.g. Linux Mint or ZorinOS) when compared to Windows.
Closed source is garbage. Long live Linux.
I kind of did and it took a distro or two... But arch (EndeavourOS) is keeping me on track with all tasks I need to perform at work (one program is wine based, and office is dealt with just fine with libre - I'm a high school teacher by the way) and well ... I used the command line to use ghostscript and OCR some documents. This was all right inside Linux by the way, no downloading extra packages. It worked goddamn fine.
Unironically: Every year is the year of the linux desktop.
Screw Linux desktop, let's make this year The Year of FreeBSD Desktop.
I used FreeBSD desktop around 20 years ago. It was alright. It just took a lot of time setting everything up from source.
You joke, but it's not that bad at all.
Think they finally fixed wifi too.
When you are suffering vitamin deficiency it is always time to get those vitamins in.
When you are sleep deprived it is always time to go to bed.
When your teeth are rotting it is always time to clean them.
Your condition will get worse until you make use of the remedy. And the reminder to make use of the remedy will stay the same as long as the condition lasts. Just as Windows is getting worse and worse the only remedy is to use another OS, but some people choose to help themselves sooner than others.
Thank you for that talkin to, daddy. I needed that.
I'll have you know the last good version of windows was Windows RG.
Never forget.
Number of ads my OS shows me: 0
Number of ads my Win11 shows me: 0
Answer: Live in Europe.
Amount of ads my operating system shows me: 1. I've got Ubuntu on an old laptop because I couldn't get Debian to install and I didn't know much about Mint at the time So I've seen a couple Ubuntu Pro popup ads.
Yes but you are missing all the hot singles, and only getting the neckbeard ones.
That's the worst thing about dealing with Windows machines at work: it's not just the browser that needs an adblocker!
And I'm not going through 20 laptops to disable that (is it even possible) unless I get paid for it.
I installed with a local windows 11 account using Rufus and I have no ads. Also went back to old taskbar using StartAllBack. It's just a good old windows box again. Really works nicely.
I installed with a local account using Rufus
I don't really understand this, sorry.
went back to old taskbar using StartAllBack.
This makes sense to me because most ads/unsolicited information seems to stem from there.
It's funny that on Windows you have to install a third-party app to change the OS's behavior. I doubt I'll be allowed to do that :(
This was also on my work machine. I had to use some utilities to extract my windows key and change some stuff in the bios to disable bitlocker, so it was not a small job but it's increased my productivity a lot.
shouldn't need to worry about a windows product key if 10 or 11 was previously activated on the system and no significant changes were made to its internal hardware (like motherboard or nic). activation servers retain activation state and hardware hash, and that state is restored on reinstall. just choose 'i don't have a key' when prompted during install and when windows is back it will automagically reactivate itself.
Interesting. I thought that since I completely wiped the disk and removed all bitlocker that it would be an issue. Didn't think there would be some other place to store the CD key.
I know the Rufus software.
So you're saying you installed windows from a selfmade installation medium, that you further had to massage, without internet connection? That's not really an option on our work laptops.
I actually also did this to some machines; I gave them to their respective owners right away so I don't know if they have no ads.
Yes fortunately I had the bios password, so I was able to manage it. I work remotely. To IT it just looks like the machine vanished. They haven't asked me about it.
You know this is more than enough reason to fire you once your IT department finds out
Been here more than 20 years and my whole department does it. The computers are unusable otherwise. If I were sitting in an office it wouldn't be possible, but they have a BYOD policy which allows for this kind of use.
Remember when a "pop-up blocker" was a browser plug-in because the browsers didn't yet consider it a competitive feature?
(Well, okay, Opera and iCab did.)
The best time to move to linux was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.
I did both of those.
Does that mean I shouldn't have switched in 2007 and instead waited eight more years?
But then I'd have had to use Windows 8
I had win 8.1 for a long while. It really wasn't bad. Win 11 is what finally pushed me away from Windows.
I only had Windows 8 on a notebook that I bought and wanted to give it a try again, however I switched the machine over once I learned that it couldn't be updated to 8.1 through normal updates, but that you had to use the store, because they were really trying to push the store. Also my NAS used NFS back then, which my home edition of Windows didn't support, I think you need professional.
These two things pushed me to migrate the notebook as well
It's the year of the Linux desktop after all, like every year.
Well, with general enshittification, Steam’s progress and W10 sunsetting maybe it will tick up the charts a bit more this year. I have laptops and home theater systems and have converted several in the last six months. Mostly Mint and EndeavorOS so far, but I’ll also load up Manjaro and Fedora on the last couple to see how I like them. Linux has come a long way.
After you move to Linux, you end up continuing your journey to different Linux flavours
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