Just switched to Fedora Kinoite and I’m loving the immutability of the OS. Oh bad update? lol rollback and golden. Can’t do that shit with each bloatware force push from MS
Been running Bazzite for a while now, and love it. Basically Kinoite but built for gaming.
Took me a little bit to get a grasp on ostree, but I really like it.
Just wanna add another Bazzite recommendation! If you’re on the fence and feeling like “but my games!” - Bazzite’s got your back. Shit works great.
I mean, good thing, too. They just broke the lock screen this week. That was an annoying half an hour of troubleshooting to do in the middle of a work day.
Pros and cons in each, I suppose.
They just broke
Who did? I didn’t quite follow.
A KDE update broke its lock screen. Locking the computer would bring up a message reading “The lock screen is broken and doesn’t work anymore, to unlock the computer, hit Ctrl+Alt+F1, login and enter this command.”
Interesting that there’s a “failsafe” like that though.
Hah. Those used to be a lot more common, this is actually a bit of a blast from the past.
Early graphical Linux interfaces were constantly breaking and telling you to go back to a terminal to restart your X server or fix whatever was broken manually.
That used to be the “but you have to use the terminal” of very early Linux, back when “can you install Debian from scratch?” was the old “can you install Arch from scratch?”
Man, I’m old.
It is already the year of the Linux Desktop for me and has been for years. Anyone who run GNU+Linux exclusively is already there.
Every year is the year of the Linux desktop
Me too, since 2016. I dabbled in dual-booting on and off since about 2k, but went full Linux in 2016 and have never looked back.
Living in Finland is doubly humiliating. The country where Linux started, and IT chiefs almost in every company are going “oh yeah? I’m gonna use Microsoft products even harder”
I don’t like to say this about people I don’t know but fucking idiots, man.
Europe breaks their own procurement laws to choose Windows, because they are idiots.
because they are corrupt
Honestly I wasn’t expecting to see a significant increase. It’s a nice surprise. If we get to 6-7% Linux will be much harder to ignore for software and hardware providers. Personally I’m good on software but better wifi drivers would be welcomed.
Nice to see the word unprecedented before some good news!
best headline of 2025
I’m guessing that isn’t the only reason.
I don’t want them to, but I don’t get why Microsoft don’t just roll out updates the way Android/Linux do. Free. They’ve already adopted the Google method of moneymaking by embedding spyware into everything in the OS. Surely they could stop most of their headaches by doing that? Not that I care. Linux user here for roughly 16 years, sometimes having to go back to Windows hurts. It hurt a lot recently, having to dig out an old windows laptop to ironically install Ubuntu touch on to a phone (OnePlus Nord N10). I had tons of updates and had to install features and so much other stuff just to use it. 🤕
I think this is good. This means increased competition and that the none compatible Windows computers can keep running without going to the trash bin - better for the environment.
Unfortunately a https://xkcd.com/1102/ situation
