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Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS (www.webpronews.com)

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[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

someone asked me a couple months back why i can't run my games on Linux and i said because they just don't work well and the controller doesn't work etc... but i hadn't actually tried in many years. Lo and behold pretty much every game works, most of them just fine, and all of them work with the controller which doesn't even happen on Windows.

never looking back now

[–] haui@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, we (linux nerds) have been saying that for a long time now. It is just not reaching people. And of course that is only for people absolutely want to play games. Everyone else who uses windoze is just coping.

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

well to be fair, a lot of this shit did not actually work a few years ago when I last tried... i've been using linux off and on for about 25 years but it seems it has come a long way in a short time in the gaming department lately

[–] haui@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Exactly. It has been pretty top notch for the last three years but aside from gaming it has probably been ver good for 5-10.

[–] haui@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Important note: Linus Torvalds was recently seen in a first ever photo with bill -the biggest farm land owner in the US and the reason covid vaccines are patented - gates. This could be the reason. Of course they are surveiling the percentage of competition in THEIR market. So - tinfoil hat ON - if torvalds gets funky ideas now or we start seeing major shifts in policy, we need to raise the alarm immediately.

[–] FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Anyone who's been following Kernel development for a while knows that big tech has been all over Linux for a while, and I'd count the relatively recent inclusion of rust in the Kernel as a major shift in policy. Linux has sponsors, not donators. Also since the Linux Foundation and most of their infrastructure is based in burgerland, they have to follow US law.

I'm not trying to be a doomer, but Linux is far less autonomous than people like to think. However, since it's FOSS anyone can just modify it and rip out the junk. And it's still the only FOSS Unix-like that supports most modern Hardware, which probably makes up most of its value.

[–] poo_22@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 month ago

Thank you pewdiepie. You're still a racist piece of shit tho.

[–] sunbleachedfly@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago

I'm sure that this is because of a confluence of events, but I would presume as well that it has a lot to do with declining material conditions within the US as well. The way of buying a new computer/laptop/phone every couple years is becoming increasingly unfeasible, & Linux doesn't enforce planned obsolescence & doesn't force new features onto users. Especially over the past 15 years, it's been a stalwart of stability compared with Mac/Windows & their deteriorating reputations.

Operating systems are, at the end of the day, public infrastructure & should absolutely be treated as such. I feel that open source is one way to implement that, & Linux, along with its wealth of distros, is doing a good job of it.

[–] mangocrusader@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Yesss! I’m so excited that Linux is gaining more traction. With any luck, maybe more devs will start adopting open source projects as well.

After a disgusting fight with UEFI, TPM and a bunch of other issues I finally have Fedora installed. It honestly just gets better and better each year that I’ve tried it since ~2005.