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Who is excited? (lemmy.world)
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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

It has been near for the past 15 years.

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

It's the nearestest it's ever been !!!!11

[-] tostiman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Its getting nearerer!

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

what are 15 years for immortal linux. nothing. a blink of an eye

[-] FuryMaker@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

You mean the year of unpatched Windows 10.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago

As long as the browsers keep getting patches we're all good.

[-] polle@feddit.org 2 points 7 months ago

The windows 11 ads worked. I installed Linux a month ago and would say the transition is done and iam really happy.

[-] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Same here.

Migrated my home studio/gaming rig to Nobara this year. The only reason I have Windows still on a drive in my PC is because the sim racing titles I enjoy (mainly iRacing) use anti-cheat and I'm also a little bit scared of bricking my expensive peripherals trying to get them working on Linux. Seems like it's very possible, but I'm still hesitant.

That said, literally every audio peripheral I have works perfect, as well as all my VSTs. Concerning gaming, the only title in my steam library that is giving me issues is Counter Strike 2 which I'm not interested in playing right now anyway.

10/10, would recommend migrating to Nobara.

[-] polle@feddit.org 2 points 6 months ago

Nice to her! Which vsts do you use? Sadly i stopped doing music some years ago, but i have bitwig and some bought vsts. I wondered using them will be an issue. Like if they have an installer for windows.

[-] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

I had a big Waves set for a long time but I spent a year away from home with nothing but a work laptop and got used to free and stock Reaper plugins only. I enjoyed the simplicity so much that I purged my VST list down to what I was using on that laptop. I have some Aberrant DSP, Valhalla, Voxengo, among others. Some instruments too, namely Surge XT, Cardinal, GGD Drums, Vital, Redtron Mellotron, and a couple guitar sims. That's what I can think of right now.

The plugins install via WINE just like they do on Windows, then you sync them with Yabridge for use with your DAW. It was pretty easy to get it all running.

[-] yonder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

I wonder how many people would notice if when upgrading from windows 10 to 11, windows is replaced by KDE themed to look like windows 11.

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The year of the Linux desktop will happen when a large (EDIT: large, CONSUMER-FOCUSED AND CONSUMER-FRIENDLY) company decides to donate a remarkable amount of resources to the development and maintenance of a specific distro to make it user friendly and give it the feeling that someone who actually knows better than most users is taking care of important stuff in the background.

…Valve? 👀

[-] murph@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

We've been through this before.

When Windows dropped most 32 bit support, desktop Linux had a chance just like this, but it didn't happen then either. Unless some distro becomes a perfect 1:1 replacement for Windows on all hardware, with no changes in installation procedure. (including when it's purchased) as well as: All software must run not only perfectly, but exactly the same, with everything from installation to every moment of use exactly the same, otherwise people will use Windows unpatched, or go out and buy new hardware.

In my opinion, the year of Linux on the desktop will only come when the desktop is abandoned, and it is no longer a commonly used platform.

Yes, it's bleak, but we've been down this road before. Unless a distro becomes perfect, no significant change will come.

Scoop up that hardware being discarded, install your favorite distro (because you will be supporting it) and give it away to someone to learn Linux. There will never be a mass exodus, just install, educate, and chip away 1 user at a time.

[-] OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago

Even if there was a perfect drop in replacement it wouldn't change anything. People bitch and moan about windows all of the time but the reason they use it is bc that's what came with their laptop.

Reinstalling a new OS is the biggest problem, people will learn how to do things but they won't go out of their way to do it.

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

While people don't want to move onto Windows 11, I recently saw a fricking Vista on a local office supply store.

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

I've seen brand new installs of XP. An ancient process works there, so if they need a new deployment, XP it is.

No internet and minimum user interaction though

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

It's really fine if they have no access to internet. They probably have their software that works fine with it, and probably won't work on newer OSes. There is an airport that still uses Win 3.1 on some computers, don't recall the name though.

Funny thing is, XP still appears on Windows market share.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Taking the dive on my gaming tower. Wish me luck bois

[-] Mechaguana@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

Youll prefer tinkering with the os rather than playing in no time ;)

[-] y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

Don't worry, they'll drop 12 soon to make people prefer 11

[-] Emi@ani.social 1 points 7 months ago

Sadly almost every average user will most likely just use windows 10 past the end and won't bother doing anything and eventually just buy new PC in few years. Also some stuff just can't be done on Linux for work, not that it can't be done but had problems with people not being able to open the files that were made on Linux libre office. But personally I'll switch to Linux for safety and try to make it daily driver.

[-] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 7 months ago

To put this in perspective, it fell by 0.48%

Windows 10 grew by 0.89%

Linux actually dropped by 0.26% in that same period.

Not that I'd be too concerned about any of that, because that's all data from reported OS in website visits, so all those are well within the margin of error.

[-] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Look, I like Linux too, and I think governments should definitely use it to move away from Microsoft.

But as long as prebuilt PCs and laptops are sold with Windows, people will stay accustomed to it and be way more hesitant to switch. You can tell them, 'It works just like Windows! It just looks a bit different!' Yet their minds will still think, 'New = scary.' and won't use it.

[-] Piatro@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

The issue for me as a potential advocate to my immediate circle of friends and family is that I don't want to become the only source of tech support. Now realistically they'll probably have fewer issues, but as soon as they want to fix something they'll have to come to me. No they won't Google things, and if they do they won't understand it.

[-] Atrichum@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

I remember similar articles when Windows 7 reached end of life. People will complain but mostly adapt to Windows 11, and Linux will gain 0.2% market share.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

When Windows 7 reached EOL in 2012, ChromeOS wasn't even a year old, MacOS was too expensive, SteamOS wasn't close on the horizon, tablets weren't really usable, smartphones were severely underpowered, and most applications didn't have web-based versions or replacements.

This time around, none of those things are true, and Windows 11 lost market share last month (which is frankly unprecedented).

Plus, even with that dearth of options, people griped and complained and refused for so long that Microsoft made a big marketing deal out of Windows 8.1. And even after that, they offered Windows 7 users free Windows 10 licenses to get them to upgrade.

Linux probably won't get the crown (though I'd say a bump as high as 1-2% isn't out of the question). It'll probably be ChromeOS, if anything, simply because of the commanding lead Google has held for the past decade or so in K12. But in any case, if Microsoft doesn't shift their strategy, they're unlikely to win this one; there are a lot of options.

[-] Chickerino@feddit.nl 0 points 7 months ago

windows 7 reached extended eol in 2020, for security updates only, i believe that's what they were talking about

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

I don't think so. The big switchover push for 7 (like what's happening now with 10) happened in 2012.

[-] Chickerino@feddit.nl 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

i am incredibly confused by what you mean, Microsoft's website clearly states the extended end of supoort for 7 was jan 2020 as stated here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-7, and besides, the marketshare for windows 7 was still growing in 2012

by any chance, do you mean a push over to windows 7 from something like xp? or are you talking about a push from 7 to 8, which never really happened as all the focus was on the impending 2014 windows xp end of support date

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

No. I mean the push to switch away from Windows 7. Windows 8 was released in 2012, which is when Microsoft began pushing users to switch. The end of extended support is almost a footnote; it doesn't even register as a blip for most users. It's the release of the successor that begins the big marketing push.

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 7 months ago

This time is a little different. A lot of slightly older but really decent hardware won't be compatible with Window's TPM requirements. They're forcing their customers to buy all new hardware for an overall worse experience. Pair that with the upcoming Trump tariffs and you'll see some people second guess their next choice of OS if it means they can save on a lot of money if they make some concessions on what they want. I'm not saying it'll be a huge change but at least it'll keep ticking up the Linux market share enough for some software publishers to start offering their products on the platform like Steam already is.

[-] thejml@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

For most non-tech savvy people, the OS is part of the computer. It comes with win 10, that’s just the way the computer works and it will stay with 10 until the hardware fails or is too slow and they need a new PC. They’re not separate. And if a PC costs more, they’re just going to deal with it longer or give up on a desktop/laptop and do more on their phones.

[-] boreengreen@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

When new OEM PCs comes with Linux pre-installed is when stuff happens. Not before then. Windows 11 adoption will be slow cause of their exclusion of old hardware. That old hardware will be scrapped or people just keep Windows 10 on it, regardless of security warnings.

The Desktop Linux experience, with gaming and all, seems pretty close to fulfilling everyone needs at this point. But it would not surprise me if Microsoft goes around paying OEM manufacturers to not bundle anything but windows with their products.

[-] ngn@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago

i dont think we'll have any large amount of preinstalls until the anticheat problem is solved

also you are just simply lying to yourself if you think desktop linux experience is fulfilling - i force my entire family to use linux and trust me the experience is not even close to being fulfilling for everyone

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 7 months ago

Probably because its not preinstalled in more hardware?

[-] ngn@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago

its a paradox and the manufacturers arent gonna be the ones to break it - why would they go out of their way to do linux preinstalls? they would gain literally nothing out of it (in fact they might lose money if they have a contract with ms)

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

Afaik don't most of the manufacturers contract with windows requiring them to only preinstall windows?

[-] Rookeh@startrek.website 0 points 7 months ago

I decided to set up Fedora on my new laptop as it was either take a chance on that or spend like 3 hours debloating a Win11 install.

It's been over 10 years since I last tried dailying Linux, we have come a long way in that time. Everything just worked out of the box. No fucking around needed.

Even relatively niche stuff like my thunderbolt dock and the laptop's fingerprint sensor was picked up. And, thanks to the investment Valve has been putting into Wine and Proton, pretty much every game I've tried has worked with no issue.

Next time my desktop is due for a clean install I'll definitely be doing the same there.

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