I've been running Linux on my desktop for more than 30 years, so I've switched for a while. And while I'd certainly like to see it become more commonplace, I'm not sure a few decimal points are really going to change anything. It's nice that it's making progress, of course, but all in all, it's rather insignificant.
While it's under 10, or more likely 15%, nobody will care about it.
I've been running Bazzite OS on my living room big screen gaming PC since May. It's a really slick fedora-based distro that installs out of the box with Steam, proton, and graphics drivers ready-to-launch for gaming. It was really easy to use, and my games worked perfectly.
My high school age son got a new AMD proc/mb for his birthday, and I was surprised when he said he wanted to try dual booting Bazzite and Windows when we set it up. 2 weeks later, and he decided to kill the Windows boot and just use Bazzite full time. He has no linux experience and just figures it out.
Windows 11 is shit and Linux alternatives are prettier, easier to use, don't shove AI down your throat, and don't steal your data for profit. The time has come.
Linux really is in a good place I've been on it for some months now. It feels like win 7, it doesn't get in your way, it does what you want it to do when you want it to. And if you fuck something up its because you fucked it up... go fix it...
I'm too old to tinker anymore. Bazzite has been a blessing. Rock solid.
Good on your son! Glad he sees the light. Windows is shittier and shittier all the time. I migrated away from it years ago. It’s absolute poison now.
I can’t wait for nvidia to fix the last few graphical glitches in steam big picture and game scope.
I have windows 11 and bazzite as dual boot. I haven’t moved over full time yet though. Mainly due to VR support and sailing…
It's not so much about users switching, it's more about the ones that will stick with it. And that we can't know for a few years yet.
Lemmy Linux copium is one of the strongest in the world.
How else are we going to achieve nuclear fission?
Don't you mean fusion? Fission is separate and we've already achieved it a long time ago.
We've achieved fusion too. We just can't extract more energy than we put into it yet.
Haha, yup! Brain bork moment. :)
I've been using Arch for a little over a year, and it's been fun. I've learned so much more about computers and Linux itself. I highly recommend trying out Linux and you can do it here: https://distrosea.com/ - It's a website where you can try out different Linux distros in your web browser.
Glad to be part of a trend, for a change!
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