• mightyfoolish@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    2023 was the year of the Linux desktop.

    1. Got Discord and Zoom off the store
    2. Zoom screen and webcam sharing just worked
    3. Was able to even switch Bluetooth profile through GUI
    4. Essentially any game that didn’t use a kernel level spyware works
    5. Chromebook hardware in the $500 range is pretty good
    6. Must software is web based.

    I recommend OpenSuse Tumbleweed. Install once, update weekly or biweekly. (It’s a rolling release, so it doesn’t have major upgrades like Windows 10 to 11 does.) About a month ago I did an upgrade on my old laptop. Handled 2 years of updates flawlessly.

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      9 months ago

      I left tumbleweed for alpine and artix because even if you always use --no-recommends for package installation it seems to ship just too much bloat and I left it after it shipped some broken software I didn’t need anyway but must’ve affected system stability too severely, iSCSI iirc

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    9 months ago

    There’s never been a bad year for the Linux desktop. The share size doesn’t matter. So, yes, it is the year of the Linux desktop in my book and it has been that way for decades.

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      9 months ago

      The share size doesn’t matter.

      Gotta disagree with you there. Market adoption should be a primary concern of those who care about the Linux ecosystem.