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Linux breaks the 5% threshold for the Hardware survey first time ever on Steam (aus.social)
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Linux breaks the 5% threshold for the Hardware survey first time ever on @steam@lemmy.ml

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45783520?sort=Top

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Guys its finally the year of the linux desktop

spoiler

And it should be anything but GNOME

[–] CandyPants@lemmy.ml 42 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is why we can't have nice things. You brought a knife to a celebration.

Let's just be happy for the platform, also fuck Arch.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Let's just be happy for the platform, also fuck Arch.

Lol! It's the year of the Linux desktop! Let's celebrate!

and then...focus on converting everyone to the Vim editor.

[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

spoilerGNOME is fine I will die on this hill. It's not for Windows refugees, though.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

spoilermy issue with gnome is that it's not api staple enough to trust the plugins you install will keep working

[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

spoilerThat's a fair criticism. I imagine as it matures more this might become less of an issue (yes it's been around for ages but desktop Linux is only recently gaining some traction, so I give them some slack there), but currently it's absolutely GNOME's biggest downfall.

It's also partially why I don't recommend it for Windows refugees, if you have any expectations of how it should function there's a good chance it just won't work that way, and the extensions that make it work how you want it to are unreliable.

I personally have a cursed setup with GNOME and hyprland installed. I retreat to GNOME whenever my hyprland setup is borked, which is most of the time.

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

spoilerJust apt-mark hold gnome /s

[–] eddiereasoner@mstdn.social 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@R00bot @mlg I love that you called them windows refugees. What about MacOS? (As a power user/software engineer)

[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I came from macOS and found GNOME pretty accommodating. It's more akin to macOS than to Windows, both looks and customisation-wise. I'm also a software engineer! :)

[–] cytro@mastodon.de 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

@R00bot @eddiereasoner
Welcome to the free world and nice to have you here ♥️

[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks! I feel obliged to say I built my PC in 2023, but Linux still feels exciting to me. Trying to avoid becoming that annoying Linux guy who tells everyone to install it lol.

[–] cytro@mastodon.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

@R00bot
😂 After I did my first installations (back in 1998) with SUSE and Red hat... And I thought it was a mess. But I restarted using Linux in 2020 and it was a whole new world. Linux is grown into a real usable and flexible OS, and I love it... And well I tell anybody to try it out 😂