2023 year of Linux desktop!!1
Idc if we are not on reddit anymore, this joke doesn’t get old
Like the year of the linux desktop
https://youtu.be/N4FlL1FCbvA Time for your annual viewing of year of linux desktop promo video!!
I technically started with Steam Deck and finally took the plunge of partitioning my daily driver to install Linux Mint back a few weeks ago.
No regrets…
I’m a developer (web app predominantly ) and find I can use it for about 80% - 85% of my daily workflow. Things I miss and can’t substitute are mainly around image editing / vector editing where GIMP and InkScape are just not there for the way I work.
Loving my time with it and would highly recommend anyone on the fence take the dive and give Mint a go. It’s incredibly familiar the moment you boot it :)
I’ve been on Linux for a while and at this point must people use their computers as glorified thin clients for Chrome.
This has made Linux way more viable as a day to day OS. Valve is working very hard to make games viable and is seeing some success.
The major blind spots remain industry specific software outside of software dev. Things like Adobe suite and Microsoft office for example. They often have a Linux equivalent but it rarely fits well into industry standard work flows.
Many of today’s applications are now just web apps. The proportion of actual native applications that users run has been shrinking for a while, and so the differenced in native application support become less important.
That’s exactly what he said, and then he also said except for industry-specific software like video editing, graphic design, etc, where big companies don’t offer a Linux version and the alternatives aren’t quite up to par. It’s true there’s Offcie 365 online but it’s still subpar compared to the real deal, like if you’re a PowerPoint or Excel power user or really need Access or another specialized program.
I’m all for Linux, these big companies have just eaten a lot of the market and refuse to play nice.
I distinguish between web applications and thin clients. When I was in the business, a thin client meant you ran everything through one instance of Chrome, but today’s web applications don’t work that way. They each bring their own Chrome with them. It’s much less memory efficient but allows them more control over what version is running their app. Also, many web app based applications still have special extensions to expose features Chrome normally wouldn’t.
It’s possible the terminology has changed over 10 years.
I’m a Linux developer who’s made Electron apps, I have complete and total understanding of everything you’re saying. You don’t seem to be understanding the thing we’re saying, which is that if you really really need a specific Microsoft or Adobe product, your best option is still Windows or Mac since Wine isn’t very good. This is a fault of those corporations, not technology.
I really need to stop drinking.
We’re here to support you in your journey to sobriety, brother!
except for industry-specific software like video editing
Unless you’re referring to Abode directly, the video and VFX industry has a much bigger presence on Linux.
All the major software offerings (except for Adobe) not only have Linux versions, but some are also first-class offerings on Linux.
Ok, I don’t actually know if it’s “all”, but it’s definitely most.
It’s been a few decades since I got into it, but can you tell me the best Linux alternatives to Adobe Premiere / After Effects, Final Cut Pro, and AVID? I’ve tried a few and they tend to have problems with crashing and overall limited functionality.
Probably the best alternative to Premier is KdenLive or DaVinci.
As for After Effects, I’m not too sure. The alternatives definitely exist, I’m just not sure which one to recommend. It’s been years since I’ve done any compositing. But I use KdenLive for video editing regularly and it’s great.
In fact, the past year of development has been monumental in the amount of improvements and new features.
DaVinci Resolve replaces all of these and does it better (ok maybe not AVID, but I don’t know much about that one, so maybe).
Huh now I know. Never heard of it before. I use OpenShot which is FOSS but it’s meh.
And we’re all on Lemmy!
my exact same thought, lol. nice
This is satisfying great news!
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does this count things such as steamOS & ChromeOS?
Counts ChromeOS as a different OS.
That’s nice. Hopefully it getting more notorious means that HW companies will support it better. But, at the same time, if this is just from the Steam Deck, then, kinda fugged
I dunno, I see the steam deck as a huge win for Linux. It shows people how simple Linux gaming can be.
It is a win, but it’s more of a Steam Deck win than a plain Linux one.
Proton?
Valve puming money in the Steamdeck is paying off for everybody gaming on Linux.
It made me pull the trigger again and this time i’m not even dual booting.
Well, sure, proton is great, but I wish HW support was better more than I like proton.
and this time i’m not even dual booting.
I’m so close to doing the same thing. We’re at the point where proton compatibility is good enough that most of the games in my library work. And even if a game truly doesn’t work on Linux at all, I just talk myself out of buying it anyway.
I think I pretty much only boot up Windows once every few weeks to keep it updated.
I don’t need to dual boot because the stuff I play just works on proton or is “native” (minecraft)
I wonder what the big drop in Windows and big rise in Unknown for awhile was
That can sometimes be ad/tracker blockers, where maybe they know they got a hit but not from where
When Linux gaming reaches 100 percent parity with windows, I’ll probably switch. Until then I can’t really justify it for my home PC. Give it 5 years or so, I’ve heard good things about… proton, i think it was called?
That is quite the criteria. Windows doesn’t have 100% parity with Windows. ;)
I switched recently to Linux and haven’t had issues with the vast majority of my games. Though, I don’t play many competitive multi-player games. Those seem to be where the issues remain.
It won’t ever. It’s been very close for the last 10 years. It won’t ever be 100%.
A great example right now is “How do you see what driver your device is using?”
In Windows that’s going to device manager -> display adapters -> your device-> properties. Easy and can be easily discovered by thinking “I need to know what driver is running what device” and then going to look for a device manager, and following the trail.
In Linux that’s potentially lspci or lsusb or lshw or a combination of each with their own arguments. Linux fails almost instantly because you have to type a command. Windows treat the user with respect for their time and don’t tell you to stare at a man page for 10 minutes trying to figure out the exact arbitrary letters to add as arguments to some archaic command.
This is been a problem for decades. There are third-party GUIs that don’t tell you the driver being used or tie things together like they show the device but not the driver or not allowing you to manage the driver and aren’t included with most distros, so aren’t discoverable.
Waiting for Linux is a fool’s errand at this point.
Windows treat the user with respect for their time and don’t tell you to stare at a man page for 10 minutes
When I run across Error 0x0000011b or whatever, and there’s no official documentation on it, it doesn’t feel much like respect for my time at all. I’d sooner stare at a man page for 10 minutes than dig through every Microsoft support forum post and try every weird arcane fix.
Yeah there’s 3% reported, but what do you think that 3% unknown is? Am I supposed to believe it’s all Windows users spoofing their user agent?
I spoof my user agent on Linux and appears as a Windows user to websites. So I’m actually contributing to the Windows stat.
It’d be cool to spoof a browser to appear as OS/2 running IE6 or so.
That would be cool but also will defeat the purpose of not standing out
@StarkillerX42 @settinmoon why tf lol
some men just want to watch the world burn