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2024: The Year Linux Dethrones Windows on the Desktop – Are You Ready? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by urska@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] Fungah@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Like. I can't even rub Wayland on my 4090. Its a black screen. This happens with manjaro kde. With mint I can at least see my (frozen, unresponsive, unusable) desktop.

This all sounds cool and stuff but I kind of wish people would, like, shut the fuck up about Wayland? My understanding is that NY experience.is far from unique. People that own PCs have nvidia cards. Unless "the year of the Linux desktop" involves everyone vaporating anmd cards that magically have cuda cores somehow out of their asses then nothing about Wayland really matters to us.

You can "get an and" card to me all you want, but here's the thing: I don't fucking want one. I use my cuda cores. Its why I spent as much as I did on a 4090.

I guess 555 is supposed to make Wayland work with nvidia?

I mean, look. Using an nvidia card with Linux, and getting the requisite drivers working, can be am experience akin to having your has deferens ripped out by an aging badger. I get it. But until I can nvidia while I Wayland I just don't care. And I'm not alone.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

these days I keep hearing people say that nv wayland it fine every time amd vs nv for linux comes up. Is manjaro more behind arch repos than I thought? or does it also not work on arch and other distros are doing something different?

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[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Linux is about on-par with windows xp/7 as it stands, and it has been for a while. The reason people haven't switched is OEM and software support.

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think if I could get xbox game pass running on Linux, I'd be there

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Full of optimism. But why those points that relate not in the slightest to the layman? Also sources for half of your points?

[–] Suoko@feddit.it 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Office and Adobe Web native apps? What sources do you have?

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[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, no, I'm sure it's about to go from less than 10% market share to over 50% in one year. 🙃

[–] mactan@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They might just stop using computers

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I've noticed a LOT of pushback against the ads in MS shit. Microsoft has become greedy (well what am I saying, they've always been, kist really effin more greedy now) and somehow seems to invest even less in development. All Microsoft apps I see today are just painfully painfully bad. Again, not that they've ever been particularly good at anything besides keyboards, but lately it's been comically worse.

I've seen Linux desktop grow significantly now, and I really do see it happen that Linux crosses that threshold where there is just no more stopping it

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