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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 shmeeed »

shmeeed wrote: post #630
shmeeed wrote: post #629

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PSA: Statcounter data is garbage, please stop referring to them. This data is based on their own tracking solution customers, which is only about 0.3-0.6% of all websites (none of the big ones) and therefore highly self-selected. Note that "unknown" is basically the inverse curve to Windows and has risen from 6 to 16% within the last year. In India, "unknown" has 55% market share . They don't give any explanation for…

Cloudflare is a better alternative: https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&loc=&dt=5...

I don't really like linking to X, but there's also this "comprehensive" snapshot involving several more sources (which might be self-selecting in their own ways...): https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/1999524735424823413

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by webtcp »

eptcyka wrote: post #452
devinprater wrote: post #233

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I hate that so much. When blind people are trying to start JAWS (the screen reader) by typing "jaws" into the start menu and pressing Enter, it will sometimes pull up a Bing page on Jaws the movie instead. And the blind person is just sitting there waiting for the screen reader to start. I tell people to use the run dialog for that reason. Sucks but that's what you have to do in the age of inshittisoft.

This is purely insane. Doesn’t Microsoft violate accessibility laws in some jurisdiction due to this?

"rules for thee not for me"

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by webtcp »

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I hate that so much. When blind people are trying to start JAWS (the screen reader) by typing "jaws" into the start menu and pressing Enter, it will sometimes pull up a Bing page on Jaws the movie instead. And the blind person is just sitting there waiting for the screen reader to start. I tell people to use the run dialog for that reason. Sucks but that's what you have to do in the age of inshittisoft.

They are apparently replacing the run dialog with a new "Modern Run" dialog, so we can look forward to that also not working properly: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/after-30...

the only sane tool remaining in windows is the RUN :( I wont even touch this shitty OS without RUN

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by panick21_ »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #536
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They are moving to Wayland too and will not get around any of these issues. And using those things brings with it a number of other issues.

I’m a user and the experience has been great.

Almost as if a single users experience isn't a good way to judge a gigantic ecosystems with millions of users.

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by hydrogen7800 »

monero-xmr wrote: post #207
cogman10 wrote: post #57

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I've been seeing it a lot on reddit as well, with a lot of non-technical users asking "how do I get started with linux?" I think this is a real thing and I think a combination of MS demanding everyone get new hardware and Valve really polishing a lot of linux has gone a long way to get non-technical users to start seriously considering linux. It's a huge added bonus that old hardware simply flies with linux. I have a…

Anecdotally I’ve seen among my non-tech friends more questions about VPNs. Several of my friends own Steam Decks which is pretty wild to me given they are just normie gamers. It’s literally the ads and bloatware. Windows is horrible unless you are technical enough to strategically disable the bloatware, and keep on disabling it as the updates continually reenable it. And if you are technical enough to disable it then…

I'm one of those non-technical users. For the past week or so I've been messing with getting a servarr stack going with a vpn. Mapping a network drive to the host device, configuring the docker images, port forwarding, etc., is all foreign to me and I'm still not sure I understand what port-forwarding is. I used portainer since I like having the GUI. I can just view the dashboard and poke around to explore, rather than staring at a terminal wondering what to do, searching a vague description of the problem, and pasting some cryptic command I find. Instead, I notice the "logs" button and click that.

All that to say that I am interested enough in a Linux machine, but don't feel I have the requisite knowledge to drive one.

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by mixmastamyk »

panick21_ wrote: post #634
mixmastamyk wrote: post #536

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I’m a user and the experience has been great.

Almost as if a single users experience isn't a good way to judge a gigantic ecosystems with millions of users.

You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478677

I handed you the fix to nearly every issue you listed, and you won’t take it. That’s a you problem.

Another factor is hardware friendly to Linux. We have multiple laptops here with different components, different distros X/W etc, and all working great… at least as well as mac or win ones.

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Post by rasmus-kirk »

jama211 wrote: post #626
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I buy games for my steam deck, only stopping to read up if they're "unsupported". Surprisingly, they seem to often STILL work in that case, this happened with Ghosts of Tsushima, which was unsupported because their online play didn't work (good riddance lol). Never had an issue with any game running through proton. Only issue was Stardew Valley that couldn't play online. Turns out the Linux version (was default) had…

Yeah I’m not surprised, the steam deck hardware was picked with the best compatibility in mind. I’m aware in my case I have non-ideal hardware for Linux, such as an nvidia card.

This is also one of the primary reasons I'll buy the Steam Machine. Sure I could build whatever myself, but I actually want proper hardware support. I also don't mind that the profit margin that I pay to make my life easier goes to Valve and their Linux Gaming pursuits.

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by nextos »

ethbr1 wrote: post #567
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I think that because their total compensation is lower than FAANG, especially at senior levels, and they are seen as uncool, they sometimes have issues retaining top-notch talent. It's paradoxical, because MS Research is probably the best PLT organization in the world. But they have failed to move a lot of that know-how into production. Besides, because it's an older company, it might have more organizational entropy…

> 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.

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Post by machomaster »

monero-xmr wrote: post #269
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> It’s literally the ads and bloatware I hope more companies and MBAs open their eyes to this: that the long term cost of user-hostile changes is negative compared to respecting users and building good products. Also currently it helps to stand out from the sea of crap products. Play the long game. Make good products. Bring joy and positive experience to peoples lives. Sleep well at night.

I’m a big fan of staying private. I own a company that took VC many years ago but we strategically stayed private for a decade now and made peace with the VC. You just keep being honest, stacking customers, playing the long game. I see the value of being public but as a 100 to 500 person company that grows steadily, you keep it private and remove the quarterly earnings. The constant drive to hit the quarterly nut at…

How did you manage to agree with VC?
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