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• 3mo

Is 2025 the Year of the Linux Desktop? (linux.slashdot.org)

This is asked EVERY year. If it is, then a lot of credit has to be given to Valve/Steam and Proton.

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>The long-anticipated "year of the Linux desktop" could see renewed interest in 2025 as Microsoft's planned end of support for Windows 10 approaches, potentially driving users to explore alternatives.

This is asked EVERY year. If it is, then a lot of credit has to be given to Valve/Steam and Proton. Archive: https://archive.today/60eDf From the post: >>The long-anticipated "year of the Linux desktop" could see renewed interest in 2025 as Microsoft's planned end of support for Windows 10 approaches, potentially driving users to explore alternatives.

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3mo

About 30 years of Linux desktop checking in. It gets better and easier every year.

It has gone from breaking your monitor because your X.conf was wrong to, "hey, the new printer just works!"

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3mo

Yeah, It is AMAZING how much it has evolved over time.

I remember spending days to get audio to work and now even on a brand new system it just works. The only thing I (sometimes) have to deal with are graphics drivers and even those have gotten "easy" compared to what it used to be like.

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3mo

It's wild. I've been using it since 1997. Twice now, I've just popped out the hard drive and threw it on a brand new motherboard and didn't have to touch anything. I also passthrough my video card for a Windows VM and haven't had to touch any of the setup for that in years. I went from Slackware to Gentoo to Arch. Arch is amazing.

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3mo

Yeah, Windows freaks the fuck out if you try to do that. you have to uninstall basically every device driver or graphics driver and then just throw some chicken bones and pray the damn thing boots enough for you to either "fix" the OS or to recover data. (Yeah, I know you can just mount it in *nix you get where I am going with it).

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3mo

Just bought a used laptop to put linux on to and finally get off the windoze system. I think I'm going to try "mint" first.

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3mo

Mint is a good "first start" os. Most things just work and there is a good community behind it. Since it's based off of Ubuntu (Debian) you can usually just google ubuntu fixes if you run into a problem and it will work on Mint too. Once you get used to it you will be able to translate on your own easily.

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3mo

Thanks. I like using windows command line and powershell as much as I can (I larp knowing what I'm doing). All the command line stuff in linux looks a bit daunting but also fun to learn and figure out.

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3mo

If you have been using powershell and like it then learning bash/zsh/etc will be easy. Powershell is Microsoft's sad attempt at the Linux command line but for windows.