2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
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#2See, now this is how a website *should* look: mainly text, with non-obtrusive ads at the bottom. It's really not that hard!
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#3Best luck! My year of the Linux desktop has been 2006, so it's now 20 years (with a short 5yrs relapse around 2012). I never look back.
(Similarities to smoking cessation are neither coincidental nor intentional, but unavoidable.)
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#4“start menus made with React Native, control-alt-delete menus that are actually just webviews”
Haven’t used windows in five years or so but I’ve kept hearing bad things. This really is the icing on the cake though. Yea the AI stuff is dumb but if a OS manufacturer can’t be bothered to interact with their own UI libraries to build native UIs something has gone horribly wrong.
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#5I’d love to be a fly on the wall at Microsoft right now, to see if they are in red alert to get users back, planning subterfuge by breaking APIs used by Wine or what have you, or if they are taking it as a loss.
I recently jumped to Debian/KDE as a daily driver, and it feels great. I am coming after many years of running Linux via cli on my home server. I am also unironically enjoying wobbly windows.
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#6They're going from Microsoft to... Linux. From bad to worse. Just use macOS and get on with your life.
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#7I've been using a system 76 laptop for the past 3 years. Runs perfectly, no surprises. Unfortunately, I need a mac for work because the laptop service folks do not know what to do with linux and do not have a relationship with a vendor like system76.
Pros: The best development experience you can have. Everything is native linux. There is no beating that. This of course will be a problem if hobbies/work use windows. I've never been a windows person. So I've never missed it. Power and peripherals work on the system76 seamlessly.
Cons: Battery life. Runs out in about 2.5 hrs but its an AMD not an ARM.
I did run linux on a tower exclusively while I did my PhD. Did everything on it - code, writing my thesis in LaTeX, store data, connect to dropbox for backup, watch netflix, etc.
You're not missing much by dumping windows.
Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
#8They're going from Microsoft to... Linux. From bad to worse. Just use macOS and get on with your life.
tbf mac is starting to get pretty bad too
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#9They're going from Microsoft to... Linux. From bad to worse. Just use macOS and get on with your life.
Why is Linux worse? Why, for example, is KDE worse that the macOS desktop?
Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
#10They're going from Microsoft to... Linux. From bad to worse. Just use macOS and get on with your life.
macOS is particularly annoying and gets in the way more than an OS should. Windows can be tamed and the Linux experience can be perfectly smooth depending on distro and hardware. I assume macOS can be tamed as well, but it seems like much more of an uphill battle.