[HN Gopher] Linux on the desktop is gaining ground
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Linux on the desktop is gaining ground
Author : alexzeitler
Score : 25 points
Date : 2024-03-12 19:19 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| rqtwteye wrote:
| Is this finally the year of the Linux desktop? I tried to go full
| Linux two years ago but gave up and went back to Mac. Between
| lots of software not available on Linux and weird problems with
| screens and audio I couldn't recommend Linux to non tech people.
| It's great for dev though.
|
| I think the traditional desktop will go away slowly anyways and
| most people will use operating systems like iOS and Android.
| pjmlp wrote:
| Laptops are the new desktop, and in those GNU/Linux still has
| issues with 100% hardware support, even the ones from Linux
| OEMs still have issues with fingerprint readers, dual GPUs,
| sleep modes, hibernation.
|
| Where GNU/Linux works just fine are classical desktops,
| preferably self built.
| throwway120385 wrote:
| I'm running a 6.7 kernel on an AMD lenovo and would
| respectfully disagree that there's a hardware support
| problem. I have full suspend/hibernate/resume and everything
| comes back up just like it would in Windows or Mac OSX.
| fsflover wrote:
| Laptops originally designed for GNU/Linux work flawlessly.
| Even better when you buy preinstalled. Works for me.
| dieselgate wrote:
| Do you have any recommendations for laptops fitting this
| criteria?
| fsflover wrote:
| I'm happy with Librem 14.
| Libcat99 wrote:
| Lack of a pointer stick is a 100% a showstopper for me.
|
| I can't stand using a trackpad.
| aNoob7000 wrote:
| I hope the "traditional" desktop doesn't disappear. Personally,
| I think using iOS and Android would be a step backward as a
| desktop computer.
| nullwarp wrote:
| > I think the traditional desktop will go away slowly anyways
| and most people will use operating systems like iOS and
| Android.
|
| What a nightmarish hellscape that sounds like.
| fsflover wrote:
| There are also GNU/Linux phones. Sent from my Librem 5.
| ActorNightly wrote:
| Ever since WSL2, Windows has been objectively the best desktop
| os (with the only caveat that you have to have the pro version
| which lets you disable a bunch of the annoying stuff, and
| disabling that stuff takes a little bit of tweaking).
|
| You get the advantage of having all the software that doesn't
| work under linux, while having a linux dev environment that
| works very well even with Cuda for ML.
| dredmorbius wrote:
| Related recent discussion:
|
| Linux Hits 4% on the Desktop (imgur.com) 2024-03-02 | 47 comments
| <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39576200>
|
| Why desktop Linux is finally growing in popularity (zdnet.com)
| 2024-03-05 | 40 comments
| <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39607080>
| ryan-c wrote:
| From the other discussion, there are clear data problems with the
| source this is based on:
|
| https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/android/m...
| wkat4242 wrote:
| > "I wish we were better at having a standardised desktop that
| goes across all the distributions. This is not a kernel issue;
| it's more of a personal annoyance of how the fragmentation
| among different vendors has perhaps held the desktop back a
| bit," said Torvalds in a TFiR interview in 2018.
|
| Absolutely NOT. I would not use Linux if it forced a desktop
| environment on me. The whole reason of me not using windows or
| osx is because they do.
|
| This is the problem with "Linux on the desktop" becoming
| mainstream. Mainstream users want a company to tell them how to
| work with their computers. I have my own opinions.
| projektfu wrote:
| I find it less aggravating than other systems. I have a Mac I use
| every now and again and every update it seems to have lost a
| feature. And Windows has gotten to the point where it's just a
| constant battle against Microsoft trying to steer you into their
| next distraction, and they reboot the computer on their schedule,
| not yours. If I leave my Ubuntu desktop for a while, when I come
| back it does some security updates but is otherwise how I left
| it.
| FirmwareBurner wrote:
| _> and they reboot the computer on their schedule, not yours_
|
| When was the last time you used modern Windows and encountered
| this issue?
|
| Windows rebooting you by force was an issues in the early days
| for Windows 10 to the point it became a meme people like to
| refer back to, but that hasn't been an issue in years.
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