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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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2024: The Year Linux Dethrones Windows on the Desktop – Are You Ready? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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NTSync coming in Kernel 6.11 for better Wine/Proton game performance and porting.
Wine-Wayland last 4/5 parts left to be merged before end of 2024
Wayland HDR/Game color protocol will be finished before end of 2024
Nvidia 555/560 will be out for a perfect no stutter Nvidia performance
KDE/Gnome reaching stability and usability with NO FKN ADS
VR being usable
More Wine development and more Games being ported
Better LibreOffice/Word compatibility
Windows 10 coming to EOL
Improved Linux simplicity and support
Web-native apps (Including Msft Office and Adobe)
.Net cross platform (in VSCode or Jetbrains Rider)

What else am I missing?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Full of optimism. But why those points that relate not in the slightest to the layman? Also sources for half of your points?

[–] kaffiene 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think if I could get xbox game pass running on Linux, I'd be there

[–] yamanii 3 points 6 months ago

Same, Persona 3 Reload costs the equivalent of 10 months of gamepass in Brazil, it's really important for full priced games.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I've noticed a LOT of pushback against the ads in MS shit. Microsoft has become greedy (well what am I saying, they've always been, kist really effin more greedy now) and somehow seems to invest even less in development. All Microsoft apps I see today are just painfully painfully bad. Again, not that they've ever been particularly good at anything besides keyboards, but lately it's been comically worse.

I've seen Linux desktop grow significantly now, and I really do see it happen that Linux crosses that threshold where there is just no more stopping it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Not even one of those points will accelerate Linux adoption to being with a decade of the snowballing level at which point it could Dethrone Windows.

You been drinking some absinthe or smoking the ganja-weed?

Or just straight up snorting Flakka

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

people can't handle installing windows, they won't try anything else en masse either