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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).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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

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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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[–] onlinepersona 1 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Good meme, my friend 🤣

Anti Commercial-AI license

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

For me, it's the Windows AMD application for using FSR and other stuff of my graphics card. I'm not willing to give up to 20 FPS on a lower end card.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

NETCRAFT CONFIRMS IT

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

STOP

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

KDE and Gnome haven't been stable or usable for the past 20 years, but will become so this year for some reason?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

A non-AI generated image - it communicates to artists that they're not welcome, while Linux is getting there in support for artists (Krita, LMMS, etc.).
A debugger with a GUI - no, I don't care about writing shell scripts to automate debugging.
Server-side decorations on Gnome - just add an option for it FFS!
A way to easily recover from a crash during an update - I was lucky that I could do it from the command line, but my Ubuntu still likes to crash the VM host if I open Nautilus.
Drivers.
Linux devs not throwing a temper tantrum for a driver not being GPL. I know, that would be the ideal, but corporations gonna corporate.

Also web-native apps are a web 2.0 mistake, and lead to the abandonment of many portable GUI frameworks in favor of the "what if your pops didn't had to install Word Processor, and instead just had to type wordprocessor.com into his browser" idea of some techbro. Do you know why your ÜBERGAMERMOUSE Ultrautility is 250+MB? Because they're all Electron apps!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I'd argue that it really doesn't matter. Linux has taken over everything else. And the more MS fucks up, the more likely people will look for alternatives. I do believe many will go to Mac, but Linux is clearly picking up some of the slack as well. Microsoft wouldn't be the first tech company to take a tumble. Never say never.

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