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Linux breaks the 5% threshold for the Hardware survey first time ever on Steam (aus.social)
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Linux breaks the 5% threshold for the Hardware survey first time ever on @steam@lemmy.ml

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45783520?sort=Top

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[–] 20 points 5 months ago (11 children)

Guys its finally the year of the linux desktop

spoiler

And it should be anything but GNOME

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  • [–] 42 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    This is why we can't have nice things. You brought a knife to a celebration.

    Let's just be happy for the platform, also fuck Arch.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    spoilerGNOME is fine I will die on this hill. It's not for Windows refugees, though.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    spoilermy issue with gnome is that it's not api staple enough to trust the plugins you install will keep working

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    spoilerThat's a fair criticism. I imagine as it matures more this might become less of an issue (yes it's been around for ages but desktop Linux is only recently gaining some traction, so I give them some slack there), but currently it's absolutely GNOME's biggest downfall.

    It's also partially why I don't recommend it for Windows refugees, if you have any expectations of how it should function there's a good chance it just won't work that way, and the extensions that make it work how you want it to are unreliable.

    I personally have a cursed setup with GNOME and hyprland installed. I retreat to GNOME whenever my hyprland setup is borked, which is most of the time.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    @R00bot @mlg I love that you called them windows refugees. What about MacOS? (As a power user/software engineer)

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I came from macOS and found GNOME pretty accommodating. It's more akin to macOS than to Windows, both looks and customisation-wise. I'm also a software engineer! :)

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    @R00bot @eddiereasoner
    Welcome to the free world and nice to have you here ♥️

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks! I feel obliged to say I built my PC in 2023, but Linux still feels exciting to me. Trying to avoid becoming that annoying Linux guy who tells everyone to install it lol.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    @R00bot
    😂 After I did my first installations (back in 1998) with SUSE and Red hat... And I thought it was a mess. But I restarted using Linux in 2020 and it was a whole new world. Linux is grown into a real usable and flexible OS, and I love it... And well I tell anybody to try it out 😂

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