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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

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Post by SpaceNoodled »

AdrianB1 wrote: post #541
SpaceNoodled wrote: post #533

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Not sure what you're getting at. Housing is the main cost, and is drastically cheaper in Seattle. Food in Seattle is a bit more pricey.

Housing is just one component, there is a lot of other stuff that has equal price: if you order stuff from Amazon the price is the same, if you buy a new car the price is the same.

State and local taxes can make a significant difference for general goods, and especially car purchases.

Amazon also isn't a restaurant, and while they do sort of sell groceries through Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh, those are again priced locally.

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by Blackthorn »

Alupis wrote: post #27

I've used Fedora on my laptop for over a decade. I switched my main home workstation to Fedora in 2023, and haven't looked back since. My workstation runs Kinoite[1], an immutable/atomic version of Fedora. I started with Fedora 38, and now am running 43. Flawless major-release upgrades. I develop using distrobox[2] (pet containers) on podman. It "Just Works". Nearly 99% of my Steam library is playable on Fedora too.…

> FreeCAD

Here's the one that kills me. Not FreeCAD, but rather Zw3d. It has a fully complete, native Linux version. But it's Chinese language only! Even though the Windows version is fully international! Come on, wtf!

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by ivanjermakov »

ojr wrote: post #588
ivanjermakov wrote: post #359

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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/

Valorant, Fortnite, Call of Duty, Apex Legends, Destiny 2 and Rainbox Six Siege are not supported on Linux, how much of those 30 games of 1000 are some of the most played games? I already name 20% of them.

Correct, for top 10 Steam games it reports 50% perfect play.

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Post by episode404 »

kgwxd wrote: post #566
petabyt wrote: post #502

I've spent the past 8 years going back and forth between Linux and Windows. When I switched back to Linux last year I was shocked how well steam/proton/wine worked compared to a few years prior. Valve is truly making incredible progress.

My only hold out until this year was my gaming PC. When Windows 10 became unsupported, so did Minecraft updates. I tried Windows 11 just enough to get MC installed, only to find out I must log into the Microsoft Store to get it to run at all. The launcher installed, the desired versions downloaded and installed, click play, Store login required. Bedrock and Java editions. Just because... why not, I guess? I decided a…

cool story bro

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by DANmode »

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...

“…you’re absurd, what’s a Zune?!”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jkrn6ecxthM

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Post by okanat »

ivell wrote: post #436
CjHuber wrote: post #94

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AFAIK the Start Menu itself is still C++ and XAML however only the Recommended section is build with React Native [1]. Funnily or rather sadly, they seem to be quite proud of using it as seen in the video. 1: https://youtu.be/kMJNEFHj8b8?t=4m47s

In the challenges section, they list a few challenges with React Native that they had to overcome. Interesting thing is that MS already has XAML, WinUI etc., that they built and control and don't havr those "challenges". I don't understand what the team got by using React Native compared to using XAML. Anyone from MS here who could provide some technical benefits for this decision?

Maybe being not laid off along with other long-term staff and being part of easy-to-hire easily expendable army of JavaScript / TypeScript developers? XAML etc. are specific skills the developers are rarer and usually paid better than JS/TS devs.

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Post by okanat »

jokethrowaway wrote: post #104
yunnpp wrote: post #89

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I still have my Nokia Lumia around. Best phone I ever had. And I say this hating everything about Microsoft and Windows. That phone clicked just right with the tile design and overall usability. Of course, MS having pulled the plug, it's basically a DRM brick now.

I agree but that's because both iOS and Android are pretty bad in several ways. MeeGo from Nokia was pretty amazing as well and I'm sure it could have launched Linux phones into actual competitors to iOS and Android - if only Microsoft and Elop didn't manage to kill Linux at Nokia.

If Microsoft didn't kill it, lack of YouTube and other Google services would. That was the primary difference. With iPhone you had access to Google-owned stuff, Google never allowed other platforms like Symbian/MeeGo/Windows Phone to ever use its online services.

The game was broken from the start. Microsoft had no chance.

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Post by okanat »

wiseowise wrote: post #384
roxolotl wrote: post #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.

> their own UI libraries It doesn't help that their own UI libraries are unfinished, unpolished, hot garbage. I commend on using React, though. Like it or hate it, React is the closest to one true framework for everything.

WPF is pretty complete and used widely in various engineering, finance and corporate applications. It is HiDPI compliant. It is mature (developed since pre-Vista). It supports modern look too (can even look like Win-11, they officially support it!). Some of the beloved Microsoft late programs like Windows Terminal are written in it. If they use it and keep improving it, it has a huge potential.

But no. We cannot have nice things. Microsoft has lost the ability and management capability to release nice things. For some reason, Microsoft is trying to reinvent the wheel with UWP (aka WinUI2) and WinUI3. They are trying to replace everything with these half-arsed libraries when very complete and well-thought, future proof stuff already exists in Windows' DNA. They are shitting on the work of their earlier engineering.

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by stevenhuang »

the__alchemist wrote: post #573
rsync wrote: post #547

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"No CLI required to install software" This seems very odd ... a quick one-liner install process is by far the simplest and most efficient way to install a piece of software ... What other fragility and unnecessary complexity comes along with graphical installation tools ? Is this a pain point for non-technical users you might prepare this system for ? Who do you have in mind when you specify this ?

Perhaps this exercise will help. You are new to a given piece of software. A: There is a UI with 2 buttons. How many degrees of freedom is that? B: There is a text prompt, which accepts any number of unicode characters. How many degrees is that?

I read the docs and go for B.

Now try to automate/script it.

Good luck with A

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