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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

That still seems high to me but actually checking the StatCounter website... it has more or less been steady at 5-ish% for three years?

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

OS reveal party and it's a penguin.

Year of the Linux desktop

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago

Linux is freedom. It's imperfect, fun and yours. It teaches you while helping you do your computing, creative and fun tasks. If you're even the least but curious I encourage you to try it out.

[–] commander@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Pretty certain the rate of increase will accelerate over years. Even moreso outside of the USA. Good news for getting more attention to other open source software not just the kernel and core OS utils.

[–] LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I started running openSUSE Tumbleweed full time at the beginning of this year!

I truly must thank the folks at Steam/Proton, GE-Proton, and wemod-launcher on GitHub for allowing me to play my games exactly like I did on Windows. I can't stress to anyone who isn't playing on Linux just how good it really is (for me, at least)!

I have beaten at least 10 games while on Linux. Games like: Metaphor: Refantazio, Persona 3 Reloaded, DOOM: The Dark Ages, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Mass Effect Legendary Edition (all three games), Oblivion Remastered, and recently System Shock (Remake). Just to name a few off the top of my head!

I still have a Windows SSD dedicated to anything I MUST use on there (mainly modding games, logging back into openSUSE, then pulling those files straight from the Windows SSD onto my openSUSE SSD, fucking love that!), but that is mostly being unused because I found the wonders of QEMU/KVM Virtual Machine Manager. I use the VM to sideload apps onto my iPhone, for save editing, or for testing a Windows only app before trying to run it with Bottles or something else.

Logging into Linux feels like home, while logging onto Windows feels like someone else's home. :P

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[–] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've actually been using Bazzite-gnome-nvidia image on my main desktop for the past few weeks and I have to say it's very slick.

My main issue with it is with scaling disabled everything seems slightly big or spaced out in comparison to when I ran windows? I've read up and it maybe has something to do with the default fractional scaling but I checked and I'm at 100%.

Other than that I'm very happy with it!

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ubuntu 10.10 was my first linux. Though 11.04 was released soon after my switch.

My first experience with 10.10 was as a virtual machine on my school issued Dell Latitude D505 laptop with Windows XP, a dual core 32-bit processor and 512 megs of RAM. And boy, let me tell you, it ran like shit. But I knew that it was because I was virtualizing it and didn't hold that against it.

I can't remember what it was called, but I eventually installed this OS on my flash drive that was meant to be eco-friendly for old devices. It had a very green wallpaper. And just used that instead of ever booting into windows by changing the boot order and leaving the flash drive plugged in at all times.

Edit: I remember now. It was called Watt OS.

[–] alexalbedo@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I ran my first distro in 2009 and had to switch back to PC when I got to college. Finally got around to switching back over earlier this year when my computer wasn’t eligible to upgrade to windows 11. It’s wild how much easier it is to get things up and running now, my 70 year old dad could probably do it and that was not the case the first time around.

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