What are the important milestones Linux has achieved this year?
Valve is officially partnering with Arch (not just using it as the base for their distro).
Ooo neat I didn’t hear about this
Valrch and framemint are cute couples!
Continued not to show me anything AI-related
Real-time Linux makes it to the mainline kernel was a big one I can think of off the top of my head.
I think It might’ve been last year but anti-cheat compatibility was huge. Still up to the studio to enable it but some games have.
Progress towards wayland is going steady which doesn’t mean much to those that don’t know much about Linux. But what that means is more modern features like VRR and HDR. Not completely here yet as far as I know but that wouldn’t have happened on X11
Note exactly a huge milestone but you can’t discredit the steady development of pipewire. Audio was annoying as fuck before it.
Wayland is usable now
I was able to switch to Wayland with an Nvidia GPU this year with the update to plasma 6. I’ve only been a full-time Linux user for a year now, but gaming has gone smooth, my install has been stable and Nvidia drivers are better. Arch install with LUKS encryption was very smooth with my last install a month or so ago.
Atomic desktop ftw.
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