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2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
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Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
#412Earlier quoted context omitted.
No group policy is needed on Windows 11 Pro, it's in the settings: --- Type something in the Start menu Top right meatballs menu button 'Search settings' 'Let search apps show results' -> Off (or disable only Bing) --- I don't know about the Home edition.
That doesn't appear for me. Win 11 Pro 25H2.
After you typed a Search term, there is no menu button at the right on the same vertical row as the 'All / Apps / Documents' bar?
You can also launch that Settings page by running in powershell:
Start-Process "ms-settings:cortana-windowssearch"
Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
#413I do what I can by serving webapps from my Linux server, or using command line, but I haven't had much success with a Linux RDP or VNC server that can compete with MS RDP for performance. If I could do that I'd switch fully. Does anyone have recommendations?
Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
#414This 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…
Most charts I've seen indicate Linux already passed 5% usage worldwide.
Depends on how you count it
Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
#415Earlier quoted context omitted.
It takes over five seconds for task manager to open on my Windows 11 work laptop.
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.
Holding the control key down stops the task list from updating. Release the key to resume updates. Works on Windows 10 and 11.
Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
#416This 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…
I can’t upgrade to Windows 11. I simply can’t justify a major purchase (now a major major purchase) for a new machine for a downgraded OS. My wife would never allow it and I would hate myself for asking. If Microsoft doesn’t relent, I’ll have no other choice. I have to believe there are a great many in my shoes.
Why not? There’s a known way to skip the security thingo that complains and it works on basically anything that runs windows 10
Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
#417Windows has been my main operating system for the last 35 years (from version 2). I've used Linux and to a lessor extent BSD and Mac as well, but my main desktop has always been Windows, as it ran most of the apps that I needed. Windows 11 UI and spyware are so bad, that Windows 10 is where my 35 years of using Windows as my main OS has ended.
I dislike windows 11 also and mostly use a mac these days and my gaming pc is dual booted with arch… but windows 10 and windows 11 for me are so very similar that I’m confused about the outrage between them. In both situations I turned off all the crap that was awful like the bloatware and so on, and then it’s kinda the same experience after that.
Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
#418Earlier quoted context omitted.
I left desktop Linux in 2010 because everything did not just work. Looking at the responses to your comment, it seems that basic stuff like wifi still doesn't always just work. If it's been true since 2010, I think the problem is systematic, and won't go away with "just one more year".
> it seems that basic stuff like wifi still doesn't always just work This is true. I've been using Ubuntu since 2006, but still see issues with Wifi: Ubuntu 22 didn't work out of the box with a 2014 macbook air Bluetooth: maddening trying to set "listening" mode instead of headset mode on JBL earphones - it seems to choose randomly every time it connects, and the setting isn't exposed in any UI Sleep: I don't think I…
Counterpoint: I've been using enterprise thinkpads for the past 15 years and never had issues with wifi, or suspend. So again, it's about how you choose your hardware so it works with Linux...
Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
#419Windows still have the gamers. A lot of anti-cheat system completely block out Linux users. The Year of the Linux Desktop will still be a meme at the end of this year as well.
Except ProtonDB website reports that completely blocked games make up 3% of the top 1000 Steam games. Meanwhile, 84% is perfectly playable (some with minor tweaks). https://www.protondb.com/
So you’re still rolling a 6 sided dice every time you try a new game as to whether it works at all, and half the time you need to tweak it still? That’s a reasonably large barrier to entry then. I have arch Linux but I still boot into windows to play games that are supposed to be supported because I got sick of playing through 20 min or so of a game for it to crash in a specific spot and I’d have to start over in windows if I couldn’t find a reliable solution. After that happens a few times in a few games, I gave up and now I just go to windows to play games every time so I stop running into issues.
Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
#420Long time Linux Desktop user here. I really think Linux is a great choice as a Desktop in days of liquid glass and webviews. There are a lot of choices to make, but in the end it is working out really well (at least for me). KDE and the new COSMIC desktop environment with tiling support are tempting, but for now I keep using GNOME until I have more time to check them out. The things I personally had problems with is…
Quick note on #2 - there aren't really any issues with storing your encryption root passphrase in a file. If the file is owned by root, with no read permissions for any account, only root can access it. Since it's stored on an encrypted dataset, and your initramfs is as well, it's unreadable when the machine is off. Lastly, if anybody _does_ have a root shell on your machine, they can change the encryption passphrase…
In general I agree with you but there is one difference - a sneaky user with physical access can read it and _not_ change it, vs changing it. The latter is more detectable. But this is minor.