2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

Strange article trying to extrapolate a very biased subpopulation and grasping at other aspects to claim this year was "the year of Linux on the desktop". Unix was already dominating anything non-personal and non-mobile. Personal use outside enthusiasts and devs is still a blip on the radar.

If anyone thinks otherwise, ask yourself how Windows continues to get away with such consumer-unfriendly practices.

Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

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Post by Arbortheus » Sun, Dec 25, 2022, 8:49 PM UTC

Is there any Linux distribution with MacOS levels of reliability, simplicity, and productivity, that can reliably be updated without the boot partition getting full, random things like thunderbolt docks not working, or sleep states being faulty (or the machine not working properly after waking from sleep), or external monitor resolutions being wrong, and monitor scaling working properly when you have two monitors with different resolutions?

Most of my colleagues at work picked Linux over a MacBook, and they waste countless hours fixing their various Linux bugs.

Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

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Post by _dain_ » Sun, Dec 25, 2022, 8:49 PM UTC

sfsylvester wrote: post #2

Any clue on what distros are causing the growth? First I've heard of all this.

steam deck

Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

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Post by c22 » Sun, Dec 25, 2022, 8:51 PM UTC

Arbortheus wrote: post #5

Is there any Linux distribution with MacOS levels of reliability, simplicity, and productivity, that can reliably be updated without the boot partition getting full, random things like thunderbolt docks not working, or sleep states being faulty (or the machine not working properly after waking from sleep), or external monitor resolutions being wrong, and monitor scaling working properly when you have two monitors wit…

I have a box I've been updating Mint on for the last 10 years with no real issues for the last 6 or 7.

Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

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Post by imwillofficial » Sun, Dec 25, 2022, 8:51 PM UTC

That’s against the rules.

I’ve been doing this 20 years.

You can only say next year is the year of the Linux desktop.

No hindsight stuff allowed.

Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

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Post by pid-1 » Sun, Dec 25, 2022, 8:51 PM UTC

Rant: last weekend I finished building my teenager dream PC - 12 cores cpu, 64GB RAM, RTX 3060 12GB VRAM... GNOME on Ubuntu still managed to crash / hang on a fresh install.

Will try Mint / others, but it's a shame the "gateway distro for new users" is in such sorry state.

Re: 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?

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Post by devteambravo » Sun, Dec 25, 2022, 8:51 PM UTC

retinaros wrote: post #3

sfsylvester wrote: post #2

Any clue on what distros are causing the growth? First I've heard of all this.

windows?

Can 2nd this one, I tried Mint and Slackware this year, just because of the Win11 app checker thing kept popping and reminding me that i don't want another few years worth of BS like that.