• Victor@lemmy.world
    105·
    1 month ago

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

    • grue@lemmy.world
      4·
      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
    81·
    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
      151·
      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
        61·
        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

    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      81·
      1 month ago

      Steam OS is not, and will not be a desktop OS. Bazzite is the desktop OS you want. No need to wait. The future is now.

      • OnfireNFS@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 month ago

        I’ve seen a lot of comments online of people saying they’ll leave Windows 10 once SteamOS has general availability. I fear that’ll lead them to having a bad experience with Linux because they’ll be expecting a desktop OS but instead receive an OS that turns their computer into a console. There’s a couple features Bazzite has (like printer drivers) which you might want on something replacing Windows 10 but you probably don’t care about if you have a handheld or a steam machine

        • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          1 month ago

          SteamOS (the deck) does have printer support now.

          Valve does seem to be putting affort into making sure the desktop mode is a complete experience.

          • imecth@fedia.io
            2·
            1 month ago

            Doesn’t it boot straight into steam big picture? That alone should be a deterrent to most people wanting to run it as a desktop OS.

              • imecth@fedia.io
                2·
                1 month ago

                It’s arch KDE under the hood, as long as a terminal is accessible and you have root privileges you could probably run an airplane on it if you’d like. The relevant point is the default setting, the thing that nobody changes and why google’s paying apple 18 billion per year.

    • hellofriend@lemmy.world
      5·
      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?

      • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
        6·
        1 month ago

        This is a feature, not a bug.

        Immutable distributions will revert themselves to stock (spare your home folder) on update. If you install your apps via flatpak this won’t happen.

        Since waydroid is not available on flathub, I believe you will continue to have this problem unless you leave immutability turned off completely, which defeats the number one safety net you have against yourself.

  • KindaABigDyl@programming.dev
    3·
    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