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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 monero-xmr »

machomaster wrote: post #640
monero-xmr wrote: post #269

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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?

Bought them out

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by xorcist »

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...

Note that they count the distribution ChromeOS as separate from other Linux, for me they add up to 7%.

But they also show both Android and iOS at 0% which makes me think the dataset is not really representative.

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by shmeeed »

GeoAtreides wrote: post #364
darubedarob wrote: post #107

Saw a fascinating talk on gui and ui development today, lamenting the stagnation at M$ and apple when it comes to desktop computing (including browsing). " there simply is nothing for open source to copy but ux-decline" and that sentence rings like a bell of all the problems.

was it this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bOQ

Whoa. At around 21:30 he mentions Raph Koster. I'm 99.9% sure I read that name for the first time in my life... yesterday over at the Digital Antiquarian's blog in a story of how Ultima Online came to be.

Baader-Meinhof phenomenon sure is creepy like that.

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by publicdebates »

necovek wrote: post #337
bawolff wrote: post #118

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Remember when Active Desktop! Was the shiny new thing?

That was actually fun if not very useful (I had a dynamic school timetable programmed as my "wallpaper" as I was in high school at the time). Not very useful because you quickly realize you mostly obscure your desktop with actual applications you want to use on your computer.

They tried fixing that by creating widgets, but effectively had the same problem. Then they tried fixing that by making them always present, but then you just lose desktop space. I guess it makes sense if you have two monitors, but at that point, why not just have the full apps open in those same spots? Widgets are a great idea that I wish we could make useful somehow.

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by jama211 »

rasmus-kirk wrote: post #638
jama211 wrote: post #626

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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.

Indeed, the steam machine is very tempting to me too

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by sails »

rasmus-kirk wrote: post #619
sails wrote: post #291

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Adding from Mac perspective, I am also keeping an eye on Linux. I’ve hit a wall with Mac window management, and find the operating system just gets in the way for professional use across multiple of their digital “desktops”. I have no useful way to isolate work streams, and would gladly move to something better. The blocker for Linux for me as someone who wants some level of reliability has always been fiddling with…

Keep an eye out for PopOS Cosmic. I have daily drived it since alpha with admittedly some issues, but I see the improvement! Unlike a lot of other "Just Works" distros, it actually has proper tiling, and unlike the specialized tiling WM's I don't have to configure a bunch of stuff! I do heavily configure applications, but all of these are terminal based now-a-days.

How does it compare to Omarchy? The whole space looks extremely interesting, and on the other hand I need reliable

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by shmeeed »

xorcist wrote: post #642
shmeeed wrote: post #630

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

Note that they count the distribution ChromeOS as separate from other Linux, for me they add up to 7%. But they also show both Android and iOS at 0% which makes me think the dataset is not really representative.

Android and iOS don't show because it's filtered for desktop.

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by hexbin010 »

hexbin010 wrote: post #606
Alupis wrote: post #580

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Can you run MacOS on your 4 year old Intel Dell laptop? I've been running Fedora full-time for years and have not experienced any of the issues you have listed here. Some of your issues sound like hardware to me?

It was running headless Debian for a while with no issues, and Windows prior to that. The hardware is fine (it's a Dell dock too fwiw). Drives are NVMe I'm not sure what you mean by your question. --- So I tried KDE on Debian Stable, which is a bit less broken (it gets the Ethernet preferencing correct). But still: - Logout causes the monitor to turn off then on, introducing more delays and flickering - Only certain…

To finish my review: there are a lot of rough edges and questionable defaults, but ultimately, KDE is impressive. It's extremely snappy, full of useful features. I can live with it

I think fast + full of features gets KDE a LOT of mileage in terms of what users put up with. But it doesn't help anyone denying that there are crashes and bugs all over.

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by RajT88 »

nightski wrote: post #569
andrekandre wrote: post #518

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> 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...

Name or color had nothing to do with it imho (I like the brown personally). It was all timing. They were entering a market with a well estaablished leader (iPod) that was nearly as good, as good, or better depending on who you ask. On top of it phones themselves were taking over the music player market at the same time, which is where Microsoft really dropped the ball. I mean, iPhone is a really ridiculous name as we…

You think having a dumb name would be a negative, but one of the biggest bands in the world is called Metallica.

Re: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

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Post by jasonlotito »

kcplate wrote: post #63
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.

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.

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