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I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

~~2010 The year of Linux~~

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2026 The year of Linux

[–] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

2020 or thereabouts was the year of the linux desktop. steamos came out which meant there was a lot of labor put into getting a proper compatibility layer for gaming. DEs were good enough by that point that your grandparents could use them. plus i heard they finally got the graphical installer mostly working, i think. meanwhile microsoft has been over-enshittifying their product with the assumption they have the same captive audience they had in 2008. i just don't think that's true anymore

sorry if this just restates the article i didn't read it

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The year of Linux has been basically every year since 2003. Virtually every server runs on some form of Linux and with containerization, even the Windows servers are secretly running a bunch of Linux machines though a hypervisor.

The year of the Linux desktop is the one that's a bit of a meme. X11 has been dragged kicking and screaming into to 21st century, but the general consensus now seems to be it's time to take it out back and shoot it. Wayland is quickly becoming the new standard.

It will legitimately become easier to develop desktop applications on Linux once this all becomes standardized. The reason so many companies target Windows is because Microsoft has a ton of proprietary but managed apis for building desktop apps. Ones that are not compatible with X11.

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

im not a hater of linux, btw. around 2012-2014 i was a linux desktop user. tried the switch but had to come back unfortunately due to work related reasons

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 2 points 4 months ago

I still use Windows at work. We use ArcGIS Pro so it's necessary (me and a bunch of other people in the geodev community are pissed about that and constantly tell at ESRI but they just keep trying to push AI while their software breaks)

Have switched to Fedora on all my home machines. Basically just RDP into my workstation if I need to do anything windows dependant.