• Switorik@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10 months

    I just transitioned to Linux. Fully removed windows.

    I’m doing my part!

      • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
        10 months

        The funny thing is there are lots of things that are designed better on Linux vs Windows/macos too.

        My memory is fading on some of them since I primarily use Windows for work and a steam deck for gaming now, but keyboard shortcuts was definitely one of them. Easier to get shit done automation-wise from simple scripts. CMD is so basic and PowerShell feels like my fingers are exhausted from doing a simple thing, and like you always need to write a paragraph to get a simple thing done.

        • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          10 months

          Afaik from my limited interaction with bash: At least you have proper datatypes.
          Isnt bash essentially treating everything like a string and it’s up to you to resolve that?

  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    10 months

    Proton is a big deal for the change. Think back 5 years ago and switching to Linux was much less approachable because you needed to be an enthusiast to get your games running. Nowadays, you just click download on the Linux Steam client and >90% of the time, it’ll just work.

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      10 months

      I have been on Linux for over 15 years and even I don’t want to go back to the old days of manually installing Wine and having to create different prefixes to get different games to launch without sound. or some missing textures.

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10 months

        not manually, yeah, but bottles and such are still really useful. it shows how much good GUI tools help with usability for everyone

        • eronth@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10 months

          Not just UI, but simplicity of operation. The closer to “it just works” a system/program is, the more palatable it is to adopt.

    • gizmonicus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10 months

      100% this. I’ve been on Linux for 27 years now (ffs I’m getting old), and until proton, I just wrote off gaming as a hit or miss experience, usually not worth the trouble. Now I’ll buy Windows only games without even checking compatibility in most cases. Unless it’s a full price AAA game, I’ll risk the off chance that it doesn’t work.

    • underscores@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10 months

      Gaming on Mac was also more or less the same when it came to running windows games, had to use wine

      And I’m sorry y’all I know wine is awesome but using it manually is a pain in the ass and I hated it and I consider myself more of an enthusiast

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 months

      If we can get close to that kind of support for productivity software, I think Linux usage would explode. One of the problems with business adoption is that specialized software almost always skips Linux. The Affinity suite, for example. I’m hoping we see some snowballing now that Linux is growing so quickly, but getting Wine/Proton working with more non-game software would also be an enormous win.

    • moody@lemmings.worldEnglish
      10 months

      Honestly, 5 years ago Proton was already in pretty good shape. 2018 is when I switched to Linux, and already had very little trouble gaming.

  • passepartout@feddit.orgEnglish
    10 months

    inb4 Linux users sweepingly get declared as criminals for some flimsy reason. There was some news of Facebook filtering out Linux content because it seemed harmful to them.

  • alexalbedo@lemmy.zipEnglish
    10 months

    I ran my first distro in 2009 and had to switch back to PC when I got to college. Finally got around to switching back over earlier this year when my computer wasn’t eligible to upgrade to windows 11. It’s wild how much easier it is to get things up and running now, my 70 year old dad could probably do it and that was not the case the first time around.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    10 months

    Finally, the year of Desktop Linux. Twenty years after we were promised. And it’s still a pittence, but I’ll take it.

    I’m on a Mac, only use Linux for server stuff, but the more people we can get off Windows, the better. Let’s go!

  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    10 months

    I’m doing my part! Switched to Linux earlier this year because Microsoft started showing ads in the start menu. I tried Nobara but ran into some glitches that I didn’t want to troubleshoot so I switched to Bazzite. So far so good.

    • Jyek@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10 months

      They’ve been showing ads in the start menu for years now. Since windows 8 honestly.

    • Unlocking_Freedom@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 months

      sparky linux LXQt was the one i settled to in the end. Despite having a top spec laptop and desktop PC, i wanted a light weight Linux, based on Debian, with no “fluff” at all. PC boots fast, shuts down in 2 seconds, no updates, secure, every program is instant. Windoze is plain stupid now with ads.

    • brennesel@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      10 months

      I did the same this month. My hardware wasn’t supported by Win11, so I installed Bazzite. It works so smoothly that I’ve already installed it on another PC and will do so on every PC in my household. I’ve been able to run every single game so far, whether they were from Steam, Ubisoft Connect, GOG, Battle.net or the EA app. I had no idea we were at this point already.

      • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        10 months

        Right on! I’ve had a similar gaming experience, except with VR. Can’t seem to get my headset working with Bazzite. I’ve heard that there’s some workarounds but I need to sit down and poke at it.

  • nexguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

    I think the fastest way for Linux to spread is for there to be a cheap gross dirty disgusting commercial version pushed at bestbuy/walmart…etc where people can become familiar enough with it to switch to other distros and out still feel familiar.

    • compcube@lemy.lolEnglish
      10 months

      Do you think ChromeOS could fit that role? At least it shows that an alternative to Windows exists.

  • ThisLucidLens@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10 months

    I’m not in the US, but here in the UK I made the switch too.

    I went from Windows PC + Windows laptop ~2 years ago to now having a Linux PC (ZorinOS), Samsung tablet and a home server running Proxmox with an Ubuntu VM for Docker.

    Never been happier with my setup. The grass truly is greener over here.

  • dindonmasker@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10 months

    Hopefully this surge in users make people want to develop for it a lot more and break more walls for others who are interested.

  • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
    10 months

    Wow, that’s excluding Chrome OS, which has 2.71% on it’s own. So you could say Linux is at over 7%, but glad they split it so we know.

    • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 months

      ChromeOS is going to the Google graveyard, to be replaced by android

      (Maybe this is a good thing as Chromebooks have an expiration date averaging 3-5 years where they stop getting Chrome updates, when if it’s android can get updates to the browser for a much longer time AND have Firefox as default)

      • kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.comdeleted by creatorEnglish
        10 months

        I have an old Chromebook that I used for D&D sessions that is now collecting dust because they stopped supporting the model and use security hardware to prevent overwriting the drive that I have neither the tools or skills to circumvent.

        Google can blow me where the pampers is.