• Shin@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Didn’t we also just break 3% last year, or am I mistaken? Either way, awesome news for the FOSS community.

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      9 months ago

      Yep and it seems to line up with the rise of the Steam Deck and all the discussion around how viable gaming on Linux is these days. I think there were/are a LOT of people that only stick with Windows due to gaming. Hopefully as gaming support continues to improve on Linux more of those people will make the switch.

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        9 months ago

        I don’t even think much when running games anymore. Even DRM-free games I get from Gog I can just click on and run with Wine most of the time. It’s so awesome.

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          9 months ago

          Same.

          I only have a handful of games I cant play, and thats due entirely to their shitty choice of DRM… and thats not a big detriment cause that obscene DRM would have kept me away on Windows, anyway.

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          9 months ago

          There’s that and Heroic is doing some excellent work implementing proton and steams stuff into GOG games!

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            9 months ago

            Yeah, but I prefer running it without a launcher. It’s just cool to me I can easily run the games via clickng on the exe or searching it in a runner with very little hastle.

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        9 months ago

        I used to check winehq for linux compatibility before buying a game. I stopped doing it around 2021 or so. There is no need. dxvk just works.

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      9 months ago

      It’s some serious stonks. Not only the trend is very strong, it’s also breaking resistance every few years.

      Anyway, those trend-breaks have a curious proximity with Microsoft pushing new Windows versions.

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    9 months ago

    And firefox has 3%. Its more unpopular to use firefox rather than linux lol

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    9 months ago

    Got a new M.2 drive and installed Linux on it, still run windows on my old disk (no dual boot, only go to bios when I need windows).

    Experience has been amazing so far, biggest issues for me are the following

    1. Had to get used to Gimp instead of my very legally acquired version of Photoshop
    2. Discord screen share does not have audio and is laggy as hell (an alternative discord-screenshare application exists but gives my voice a 1-2 second delay which upsets my gf when we’re in voice, although it can stream entire desktop with audio which is amazing for watching shows together)
    3. Some games with anti-cheat don’t work, so if I want to play those I still have to jump on windows.
    4. No HDR (but it looks to be coming to KDE and Cosmic soon)

    Apart from this the experience has been amazing. I’m using Nobara and mostly gaming. As a dev terminal, scripts and ssh to my raspberry pi:s is just such a seamless and nice experience.

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    Will probably get flamed to death for this, but… a few months ago I’ve decided to try Ubuntu on an older Intel MacBook Pro, just to try it out after many attempts in the past. (Mac user here)

    Then I tried to use the trackpad. After 30 minutes of fiddling I gave up. Say what you want about Apple’s UX choices, esthetics and business practices. But boy do they know how to produce a computer and UX combo that fits like a glove.

    In comparison, the Ubuntu experience was like eating nails.

    And before y’all go off; I would like to switch. I’m getting tired of Apple’s business practices.

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      I had to use Apple MacOS for a year. It was horrible, I hated every second of it.

      Apple isn’t better. You are just used to it, and anything else feels awkward. I had the opposite experience.

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        9 months ago

        Same. I hate the unintuitive keyboard shortcuts, the nonsensical drag and drop everything UI, and their ridiculously over complicated development system.

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        Yeah, I have a similar experience. I used a bunch of operating systems in my years. From C64 GEOS over Atari TOS Amiga OS, DOS, Windows (pretty much all of them since 3.1, except Vista and 8), Android, MacOS and iOS to Linux (several distros)

        I don’t know why, but MacOS and iOS are for me just the worst user experiences. I feel completly trapped and helpless when using either one. Guess they are just not for me.

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      After years of using linux distros and settling on an arch based distro for my daily use, I switched jobs and they allowed me to have “linux” as my laptop OS.

      They put Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on the laptop. Admittedly I hadn’t used it for a few years, maybe 18.04 outside of server use cases maybe.

      The experience is horrible. It throws errors about Ubuntu, about Visual Studio Code or any program every hour, without those programs having any trouble whatsoever to function.

      It reminds me so much of Windows, and even though I prefer it over that system, I can’t shake the feeling I’m serving the OS, rather than the other way around, just like in Windows.

      And don’t even get me started on Snaps over DEB packages. Had never tried them before and I can say with confidence the hatred is deserved. Code didn’t even start up in the snap version and Firefox was so slow and laggy I was thinking the laptop was broken somehow.