While this is true, designers are constatnly beholden to management (much like programmers are), so while designers would love to create a nice looking usable application, they end up having to go with the mockups that management requested which are of course a worse experience for the end-user.
It's really sad.
According to statcounter, Linux desktop was over 4% marketshare in April 2025, damn that's impressive.
We really are getting there.
Well clearly you're lying or you haven't been looking, because this is NOT the most popular initiative on ECI.
Regardless, you can support more than one issue. It's not a zero-sum game, you can fight for multiple things. It's really not that hard to figure out.
I feel weird because I've like never had a problem with bed temperature lol maybe pillows but even then that hasn't been a problem for me in years.
I assumed you knew I was talking about the DXVK dev given that he's literally an employee of Valve, as you mentioned. Either way, I'll now be more detailed with my comment.
Of course all the contributors to Wine deserve credit too, and I do have an active Crossover license, but Valve are the ones who explicitly made a push for gaming on Linux and focused specifically on the gaming aspect. Wine covers everything, not just gaming, Proton is specifically for gaming. It's doubly true given that they want to sell more units of the Steam Deck so they can get more people into the Linux and Valve ecosystem. Not that you don't know that, but it's worth pointing out regardless.
I've been daily driving Linux since before Proton was even a thing, and the difference between gaming then versus now is not even comparable, it is infinitely better now and keeps improving. I no longer have to hope that a new game will work or that I can somehow manage to get the right set of libraries and flags to get it to run, if a new game comes out and it doesn't have a kernel-level anti-cheat, I can expect that it will work out of the box just fine without any tweaking because I have seen this happen multiple times now. I've even started getting into Mac gaming to get some of that tweaking and configuring thrill back that I used to get from Linux gaming, having to tweak and configure things to get them to work properly or to work even better.
Depending on the games you play, thanks to Valve with Proton and Steam Deck, most games are actually already playable on Linux. The only exception is newer multi-player online games with kernel-level anticheat. I haven't done any gaming on Windows in years pretty much.
I'd say "expected" might be a more fitting word.
That's if it's as high as 1%, I'd argue it might be 0.1% or less. It is one of the nerdiest things.
I think you'd be surprised. The average person has trouble remembering to check a device is plugged in when they're wondering why it won't turn on. People generally don't know what "hosting" means, let alone "self-hosting", it's far nerdier than you give us all credit for.
How many people in your city know what self-hosting even is, though? Is it anywhere near hundreds or even tens of thousands? I'd be shocked if it was even 1000 in my city. I'm willing to bet every single person in this thread has technical skills that far exceed the average person.
MAGAts are typically older, so they have less technical knowledge, so they're more likely to fall for AI slop and conspiracy theories.
Oh, sorry, I wasn't referencing the FOSS world with my comment. I was responding to the tech company's part.
My comment was specifically about designers working for companies, with management forcing them to design things in a way that they would rather not.
It's kind of less about designers having to justify their existence (although, yes, there are far more often entire re-designs that seem like nothing else about this) and more about them being forced to create designs that management want, rather than what end-users want.
That's what my comment was about.