2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

Post by necovek » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 9:53 AM UTC

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> Several of my friends own Steam Decks which is pretty wild to me given they are just normie gamers. I would say that’s absolutely the most normal gamer way of playing PC games. As someone who is mostly given up on playing games on a computer and prefer consoles, I’ve thought of doing the same thing. I agree it’s really impressive that lots of people have decided to try Linux, far more than I remember ever before. B…

I was never really a serious gamer and don't do it much at all any longer. But one of my senses is that the sort of games that really benefited from a desktop system--primarily Windows--like serious simulations and resource allocation games are increasingly fringe. Certainly there are games on Linux today but I also wonder if a lot of people won't decide, as you say, that consoles are just easier.

Post by cyberax » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 9:55 AM UTC

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I stopped writing Windows applications back in the early 00s my Windows API knowledge (essentially: just Win32) is still exactly as useful as it was then, having missed the 7 or 8 different UI frameworks in the interim

Me too, back then I wrote applications either using the raw Win32 API (GetMessage, TranslateMessage, DispatchMessage, etc), or using MFC. I think MFC is now long-time dead and buried, but at the time I liked it despite the ugly macros.

Post by jenadine » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 9:56 AM UTC

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>OS manufacturer can’t be bothered to interact with their own UI libraries to build native UIs something has gone horribly wrong. I honestly think that has way less to do with Microsoft, more of a representation of "software engineering" practices these days. For example, Gnome shell has bunch of javascript in it, GTK has layout and styling defined in some flavour of CSS, etc. I'm of opinion if you start writing OS u…

> I'm of opinion if you start writing OS userland in either javascript or python (or both), you should be fired on the spot, but I don't make the shots. KDE Plasma, which is in my opinion the most advanced desktop environment is written in Qt QML which is JavaScript. There are advantages to that over C++, namely your session won't simply crash.

Post by layer8 » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 9:58 AM UTC

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What’s worse, the list of tasks/apps in Task Manager for some reason populates gradually over a couple of seconds, so when you right-click on some task to perform an action, it might switch to a different task under the mouse cursor while you’re clicking because it’s still populating.

For me at least "details" tab populates in one step (there is a slight delay and then all processes appear). You can set it as the default tab as it's the most useful anyway.

Post by jama211 » Sat, Jan 03, 2026, 9:59 AM UTC

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jama211 wrote: post #102

This post does examplefy what we’re seeing, a general indication of some swelling of momentum but I bet it’s still going to be from 2% to maybe 3 or 5% at most until Linux can fix a few things about the community, issues with install difficulty such as dual booting and other issues, and the technical knowledge barrier to entry until more distribution with hardware comes along. Although of course system 76 and steam d…

Ever tried to get answers from "the Windows community?" https://github.com/hahndorf/Set-Privacy Still not the year of the Windows desktop.