I’m calling it 🙌
That was the free space on my 2026 bingo card!
And my 2025 one.
And the last ten years’ ones.
Linux desktop has been here for a while, wake me up when BSD desktops become more viable
Fingers crossed for socials skills in FOSS communities, then it’s game over for big tech
Hear hear. The voice of our community, LazerDickMcCheese.
I spent several hours last night talking about FOSS projects and tech certifications to a guy in entry-level IT. I’m out here doing my best, guys
They’ll just take the ick out of his name when he assumes his PR/Community manager role
Nah, just add some fancy shit, like Dr. LazerDickMcCheese, esq.
I’m loving to see all these people jumping to Linux. I switched back in 2008 with Ubuntu 8.10. So much has changed since then.
The year of the linux desktop is different for every one. For me it was 2003. Haven’t looked back since and everytime I’m forced to use Windows, I feel like I need to take a shower.
Linux is that feeling of your computer not becoming worse every year. Windows and mac users dont know what that is.
✨I don’t get Advertisements built into my Computer✨
Honesty mine gets better, the more I learn about my system the more I can optimize it to my needs
I’m like actually excited for updates to my operating system. That hasn’t been true for Android or Windows in years. The last I remember being excited for an update was iOS on my iPod Touch, but from what I hear, people aren’t even really that hyped for iOS updates any more.
You should try a normal distro like Mint or Zorin.
Arch and its forks aren’t stable distros and they’re best for experimentation rather than daily use.
Unbelievably ignorant take.
Arch and its forks are, in my view, the BEST options for a daily use desktop.
Please research the meaning of stability when applied to Linux before parroting stuff. Also, who mentioned Arch?
Xx-zones dbus_annotation and ext-tray get merged and implemented into kde and global shortcuts stop sucking and I’ll call it.
…and a year when Half life 3 is released ;)
Nope, it is NOT happening.
uninjects your hopium
Wait, is it 2006 already?
Linux gaming also taking off. New Jolla phone on the way. Valve is also being helpful. On top of that the ‘Buy European’ movement also comes at the right time.
I dare to say it’s looking pretty good
gotta laugh at people falling for the jolla scam again. i mean it sounds too good to be true and look at what they did last time
I know they’re not perfect, but scam? Or are you referencing to the tablet fiasco?
You can only abuse your customers so much before they move on. I have long enjoyed using Windows, but when they announced my perfectly usable laptop wouldn’t be able to get 11 thanks to no TPM, and I had to go through a complicated set of hoops to manually install it, that was my breaking point. I will keep Windows for some limited stuff on dual boot on one machine, but elsewhere I’m going Linux only
You can only abuse your customers so much
you’d think so… but the number of friends and family who still put up with this shit is incredible. Ads in the start menu, copilot popping up every time you press a wrong button on the keyboard, the entire task bar changing overnight with ads and stock tickers…
That last one pisses me off so much… “i dont want to learn linux!”… MF’er, microsoft just rearranged your entire task bar and start menu overnignt and you didnt seem to have a problem adapting your workflow… why would switching to gnome or KDE be any different?
The year of the Linux desktop is whenever you make it !! For me, that was 2002, the year I ditched windows for good…
The year of Linux on the desktop was the friends we made along the way…
Gaming is the best commercial inroad I’ve seen, and exploding.
But I think the “kernel anticheat” thing is going to be a hard wall until Valve works it out. Unfortunately, big OEMs don’t want to ship a “gaming PC” that can’t run Fortnite.
I know that the market verdict is “eh who cares”, but I really dont think anyone should think that invasive kernel-level anticheat is at all acceptable.
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