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2024: The Year Linux Dethrones Windows on the Desktop – Are You Ready? (lemmy.ca)
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  • NTSync coming in Kernel 6.11 for better Wine/Proton game performance and porting.
  • Wine-Wayland last 4/5 parts left to be merged before end of 2024
  • Wayland HDR/Game color protocol will be finished before end of 2024
  • Nvidia 555/560 will be out for a perfect no stutter Nvidia performance
  • KDE/Gnome reaching stability and usability with NO FKN ADS
  • VR being usable
  • More Wine development and more Games being ported
  • Better LibreOffice/Word compatibility
  • Windows 10 coming to EOL
  • Improved Linux simplicity and support
  • Web-native apps (Including Msft Office and Adobe)
  • .Net cross platform (in VSCode or Jetbrains Rider)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

NETCRAFT CONFIRMS IT

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Been seriously thinking of switching to linux for my desktop. I mostly use it for games. Today I was looking at mods for Mass Effect, and the mod manager says in all caps - LINUX IS NOT SUPPORTED :(

There's probably going to be a lot of that sort of annoyance for years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Nah. What hes saying its that they are not supported natively. The game is Gold on protondb, so its playable on Linux. Just use Wine to run your mods. Simple

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

You might still try using Proton or Lutris to run it. It may be a pain to get working, but hopefully someone out there has a guide for the mod manager you're using.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I'd argue that it really doesn't matter. Linux has taken over everything else. And the more MS fucks up, the more likely people will look for alternatives. I do believe many will go to Mac, but Linux is clearly picking up some of the slack as well. Microsoft wouldn't be the first tech company to take a tumble. Never say never.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago
  • A non-AI generated image - it communicates to artists that they're not welcome, while Linux is getting there in support for artists (Krita, LMMS, etc.).
  • A debugger with a GUI - no, I don't care about writing shell scripts to automate debugging.
  • Server-side decorations on Gnome - just add an option for it FFS!
  • A way to easily recover from a crash during an update - I was lucky that I could do it from the command line, but my Ubuntu still likes to crash the VM host if I open Nautilus.
  • Drivers.
  • Linux devs not throwing a temper tantrum for a driver not being GPL. I know, that would be the ideal, but corporations gonna corporate.

Also web-native apps are a web 2.0 mistake, and lead to the abandonment of many portable GUI frameworks in favor of the "what if your pops didn't had to install Word Processor, and instead just had to type wordprocessor.com into his browser" idea of some techbro. Do you know why your ÜBERGAMERMOUSE Ultrautility is 250+MB? Because they're all Electron apps!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

What else am I missing?

Global Linux usage stats vs global Windows usage stats for PC Desktops.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Linux is roughly at 3.88% market share. You don't think we can bump Linux adoption to 99.9% in the next six months?

We just have to keep writing these "Year of the Linux" posts every year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

You mean 50.1% !

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Come on.. don't be so pessimistic!!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

You mean realistic??????

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 months ago

I was trying to read your post but I'm distracted by the algorithmic theft you used for the image. Learn to draw or don't post

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Yeah, no, I'm sure it's about to go from less than 10% market share to over 50% in one year. 🙃

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)

This isn't the first time Microsoft has pushed telemetry and malware in its OS. But I think they have finally crossed the line with CoPilot. What they want to do with it is so incredibly obvious and intrusive that most people just won't stand for it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I think the EU will take the lead with regulations. They're already onto the phone number for sign-in thing. They're kinda slow, but less slow, ya know?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Well.. I think you are putting too much expectation on a common person. I'm pretty sure a lot of people are going to be 'mind blown', by the ability of the new Recall feature. They will hail it as a technological marvel. Very few people care about privacy, and even in that, very few people really understand how they can have some privacy. Complete privacy is near to impossible.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

You're vastly overestimating how much the average consumer cares about these things

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

They're definitely going to back down. I'm guessing they're going to back down a little (maybe create an opt out for the enterprise customers?) and then claim victory, but we'll see.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, this year is definitely the year of the Linux desktop. For real this time!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

There's a real opportunity here and we can either take it and run or we can let it pass us by.

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