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After years of thinking "wsl2 is enough for me", I switched to fedora as an experiment and I have not looked back once.
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Oh really? Where are these widely used/popular Android desktop and/or laptop machines?
They’re called phones and they’re killing the windows desktop like Linux users wanted in the 90s. It’s a very monkey’s paw scenario.
This is in the email that microsoftadvertising.com is sending unsolicited to the support email account of one of my sites: “Microsoft Advertising 88 MILLION new desktop searchers joined last year Search is at the center of online shopping 88-90% of online shoppers used search. Meanwhile, only 39% used social in their shopping journeys. Two. Most searchers are open to switching brands In fact, 3 out of 4 searchers we…
I am sorry, but that sounds like a scam. I doubt that it's an actual ms domain.
Also one that's, erm, been flying under the radar for a long time because I've been getting these things for years. Not sure about parent but this is pretty well-known by people who've had to deal with it.
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No one seriously games on a Mac.
Parse error: > Their market is the enterprise world where they have a lock in, plus gamers and PC users who cannot afford a Mac. It shows. Their market is: 1) The enterprise world, where they have a lock in. 2) Gamers. 3) PC users who cannot afford a Mac.
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The Linux desktop arrived under the guise of Android. The rest is minor noise, sadly. At least it is possible to have a working Linux desktop but that was true twenty years ago.
Oh really? Where are these widely used/popular Android desktop and/or laptop machines?
The only thing that was stopping me before was games, but games all work on linux now. Other than one or two that require specific anti-cheats that use 0days to hijack windows, there's basically nothing that doesn't run on linux now. In fact, a lot of my games actually work better because proton dynamically patches out bugs from the original windows implementations.
I don't think I've found any software or anything that I use that hasn't got a linux version. Windows is dead to me, I haven't used it since.
Bad time to be pushing this crap with the Linux desktop wooing the gaming/ power user overlap crowd now that steam deck is on the scene. I have been using Windows my whole life but now I have a PC dedicated to Linux for the 1st time and I'm thinking about seeing one up for my wife, as I'm sure Linux will be perform better on the older laptop I'm considering 'upcycling'. People forget that tech trends often flow outwa…
This message is 20 years old. Many of us long for the utopia of a Linux desktop that just works, where drivers are up to date and X windows doesn't die due to a yum/apt-get update. This feels like a future parody thread where someone will make fun of our comments.
But, I need to use Windows at my employer, and it's horrible. I wish Windows were at a point where it was ready for development.
Right now, the best dev setup is "install Linux in a VM" or "install this collection of incomplete ports/emulation/virtualization of Linux tools".
With Proton for gaming and Electron for desktop especially, Linux on the desktop is way different than it was 10 years ago, let alone 20.
Windows Start Menu is a PITA, can't count how many times it doesn't find installed programs. It was much better when it didn't try to be smart.
But those little icons for holidays, etc, that showed up in the search bar really bugged me. It bothered me so much that I searched for a way to get rid of them. If Microsoft manages to annoy a fanboy like me, they've really missed the mark.