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Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by jasonlotito » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 9:05 PM UTC

Klonoar wrote: post #139

jasonlotito wrote: post #45

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Yeah. Crazy when the two most significant desktop OS's (Windows and MacOS) have native UIs where something has gone horribly wrong.

You can dislike the visual approach of modern macOS but on a framework level the UI ecosystem is generally very powerful and feature rich. With SwiftUI you’ve been able to pick and choose where to integrate it over the years, it’s not like you had to go whole-hog.

Don't put words in my mouth. The parent said:

> if a OS manufacturer can’t be bothered to interact with their own UI libraries to build native UIs something has gone horribly wrong.

I was merely extrapolating their conditions and their words.

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by ethbr1 » Mon, Jan 05, 2026, 9:28 PM UTC

nextos wrote: post #639

ethbr1 wrote: post #567

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> dysfunctional middle-management I thought about this a lot while working at a high-growth company recently. Decided that regular (quarterly) manager rankings (HR-supported, anonymous) by 2-3 levels of subordinates is the only way to solve this at scale. The central problem is: assuming a CEO accidentally promoted a bad middle manager, then how do they ever find out? Most companies (top-down rankings-only) use proje…

Sounds a like a great solution, adding random skip connections so that information flows from the bottom to the top of the hierarchy. Certainly, few companies have managed to avoid this trap. It's largely an unsolved problem. I've often met managers and execs two levels above me that had a completely delusional view of what was going on below them due to lies spread by middle-management.

> completely delusional view of what was going on below them due to lies spread by middle-management

Corporate dysfunction made more sense to me when I realized higher execs, because of span of control, are too busy to dig into any issue themselves.

Consequently, it's trivial in most orgs for the only information path to be through managers.

Also why I think more effective execs tend to have parallel investigation resources. E.g. their do-anything assistant who they task with fact finding

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by kcplate » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 1:39 AM UTC

jasonlotito wrote: post #650

kcplate wrote: post #63

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I can’t speak to windows since it’s been at least a decade since I have had to use it, but I really don’t understand the hate on the new Apple OSs. I haven’t found them to be a measurably different user experience than their respective prior versions. So when you say “horribly wrong” it makes me wonder exactly what you mean, specifically.

I didn't say that. From the parent: > if a OS manufacturer can’t be bothered to interact with their own UI libraries to build native UIs something has gone horribly wrong.

You certainly repeated it and didn’t dispute it. I ask again—What is horribly wrong where you agree enough to repeat the claim?

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by wiredpancake » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 2:08 AM UTC

andrekandre wrote: post #518

midnightclubbed wrote: post #310

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The Zune hardware was slick, particularly the solid state players. The music store worked great and their music licensing was so much better than Apple - $10 a month for unlimited streaming, unlimited downloads (rentals) to Zune devices and 10 free mo3 downloads to own. Their only misstep was making one of their colorways poop brown! That and being too late to market with a phone that used the same design language

> Their only misstep was making one of their colorways poop brown i think the other big issue was calling it a 'zune' but thats just me...

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Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by 0000000000100 » Tue, Jan 06, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

amanzi wrote: post #283

0000000000100 wrote: post #270

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To temper expectations a bit, I’ve installed Linux recently on my HP Omen to pretty decent results. Still having some lingering issues, e.g the WiFi adapter going dead after a sleep. But have found the experience relatively similar to my recent windows installs. For a laptop user who likes to game, you’ll definitely encounter some issues based on my experience. Better than it was 2 years ago, but it’s not a seamless…

See this for something that might help your Wi-Fi issue. https://gist.github.com/gornostal/192e2ae29af3da1baeea384d0f... I had the same problem on my new Yoga laptop with Fedora and an Intel BE200 Wi-Fi card.

Holy shit that did it, really appreciate that link sir

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by azangru » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 12:10 AM UTC

the_hoser wrote: post #236

For those of us that have been using Linux for a long time (since 1999, here), the improvements have been incremental, and hard to spot over time. But sometimes I encounter something and it just blows my mind how good desktop Linux has become. I just bought a laptop that came with Fedora installed. This isn't anything new, but what really blew me away is that everything... just worked. No tinkering. No alternative mo…

> I just bought a laptop that came with Fedora installed.

Could you share the model, please?

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by benbristow » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 8:41 PM UTC

kreijstal wrote: post #589

benbristow wrote: post #321

Cool, see you back on Windows in a month. There's always something. It'll be like the New Year's resolution of going to the gym.

wait until you see you can use wine..

Not my first rodeo, Wine is brilliant, especially recently with Valve's support for gaming (albeit hindered by games with incompatible anti-cheat), but it's not a one-size fits all solution.

You're going to struggle running professional apps on it. You might be able to scrape-by. There might be open-source alternatives (rarely as suitable).

Something always ends up bringing me back.

The only thing I haven't tried is the whole GPU-passthrough VM solution which seems the best, but then you need a nice rig and a decent amount of dough.

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by silon42 » Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 8:13 AM UTC

ahartmetz wrote: post #499

jenadine wrote: post #365

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QML is not JavaScript. (While you can use some JavaScript from QML, the application still have a C++ core. QML applications can still crash. There is no DOM with QML, no browser overhead)

QML is absolutely not JavaScript. It's a markup language to describe user interfaces, spiced with JS for certain interactions. All heavy lifting behind the scenes is done in C++ - the QML runtime as well as the application logic and data models.

Does it use GC?