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

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

people can't handle installing windows, they won't try anything else en masse either

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

They can't handle the Linux!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

You are missing the "GNU slash",

GNU/Linux dethrones Windows

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Let me interject for a moment ...

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Download Ubuntu 24.04

Instant error mesage on boot

APT keyrings are wrong

Need to add old 22.04 to lists to install packages

No CUDAtools support for 24.04 yet

Yeah nah.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Download Ubuntu 24.04

Found the Windows poser.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know how many time it should be said.

If you want to go Linux, DO NOT GO FOR UBUNTU

It was a solid choice 10 years ago, but now it's a piece of headache.

Go Manjaro/EndeavourOS if you need ease of use and relatively bleeding-edge experience. Check Fedora if you want peace of mind. Check Mint once your tools appear in latest mainstream Ubuntu. Do not go for actual Ubuntu.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

wellp, most of these didn't happen, next year is looking extremely promising though.

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