whenever the following all have happened it will be impossible to stop the year of the linux desktop:
- wine uses wayland by default without compromise
- steamos releases
- color management and hdr are fully supported in wayland.
- anticheat gets fucked. – this will probably come last
I started using Linux for the first time this week after seeing all the linux memes on Lemmy and alot of help from me girlfriend, so hopefully it will be a year of the Linux for me!
Happy new year everyone!
I switched a month or so ago too! Hope you’re enjoying it too. I’ve been learning a lot.
Welcome! I’ve been using it for a year and a half now, and the thought of going back to Windows makes me sick to my stomach. This is what it feels like personal computers were always supposed to be, before Microsoft came in and shat their capitalism all over everything.
Don’t give up if you run into a snag, there’s tons of documentation online and people willing to help you out. I also think learning how it works is half the fun, but I’m a weird motherfucker.
It’s been the Year of the Linux Desktop for for 30+ years now. So any decade now right?
And I say this as a Linux user since Red Hat 5 and Mandrake 6. And I’m typing this from Fedora 40 KDE Plasma…
RTFM Noob!
Fedora 41 with XFCE and Compiz checking in
Is this a new Empire Of The Sun song leak?
i have a good feeling about 2025
hopefully I wake up tomorrow screaming in a tub of pink goo
Did you?
They can’t respond they escaped the matrix
That’s weirdly specific
It’s a reference to a scene in The Matrix.
The goo wasn’t pink, iirc.
Agree it looked more red to me, but light enough I get it if people remember it being pink.
Strawberry jello in my memory. But maybe a little less solid and more viscous.
I didn’t get that at all. Since when is pink goo associated with the Matrix.
I secondarily thought of Vacation Goo.
But I have to be honest … The Matrix is the first thing I thought of when reading the original comment.
1999
That’s not pink
Indeed, it’s strawberry red.
Sorry linux, 2025 is the year of femboys
isn’t that largely the same, Linux desktop has mostly 2 user groups. 1: femboys(tomboys who dress girly and use Linux can also be concidered femboys, normal tomboys as well). 2: people or chads who collect femboys and technology(in case where femboys aren’t collected physically or in images, they are collected in the hearth).
mages and magical creatures and such obviousy belong to both groups in general, though most of them belong mostly to group 1, that said mages who are specialized in being a wizard only more often belong to group 2.
There is not much of a difference
Some Linux users like myself are Transfem :3
I guess it is actually quite many. (could consider me one to, even though for me the physical body tends to change whenever I get reborn, and generally I just call myself me, and both as well as what I feel like in the moment.) many GNU+Linux users want freedom, next to that many care about others. and freedom, not only is the freedom to get, do, be, etc. good things, but also to do things however you feel like. next to that Linux users also are less afraid to not fit the standard image, they might do so for jokes at moments, but many just only care about what they care about in that moments, and many can take and make jokes about themselves, so no pride(as in being proud) holding them back, they can be what they want to be(or atleast more easily than most average people)
it because of both of those that naturally you see huge amounts of people like femboys, trans, transfem, etc. feminity itself also one big defining factor of most Linux users, essentially coming back to expressing yourself as well as caring about yourself, the world and others and not liking to see them hurt or abused, pretty much all Linux users have that strongly. then there also are some with strong masculinity(they still have the feminity) but also focus a lot on the taking action/getting stronger, think about the chads, and the people who are insanely strong or who are real code wizzards.
obviously I myself would also be seen as one without a standard gender or such. but in my case I don’t really have a gender, but at the same time all. being immortal(not talking about the body, but about me) let me see and experience so many things, and next to that not really human.
as for gender roles in human society, they are weird, both hold something good, yet also much bad, and most of society expects people to follow such a role blindly and completely. it is good to see that change. but people still need to learn to see there is no fixed gender or role, only personality. but to beat that properly, first it must become normal for people to do things on own choice and not based upon one character in code. it is getting there slowly, but places like primary schools should just let all people wear similar yet non boring outfits(so containing all kinds of things), as well as not dividing things upon gender and such. if kids aren’t drilled to learn such things as if they are a huge deal at young age, then they won’t even see any difference, other than perhaps choice and their own personal standards for things like comfort and beauty, etc.
/unixsocks leads me to believe it’s both
I suppose sacrifices must be made…
I plan on buying a Linux tablet. I didn’t yet, because I suspect the prices may still be christmas-inflated.
When I do, I will have 3 Linux desktops.
Update me when you do? I want one, but can’t afford something that won’t work well, so I haven’t looked into too hard. Lemme know what you get
Even if you buy five tablets, won’t you still have only three desktops?
But what about virtual desktops?
Yeah my Linux laptop contains infinite desktops.
Hell yeah, 2025 it is.
I am I the only one that thinks 2024 was a great year for Linux Desktop?
Not in any real advancements in Linux, but because Windows in now shit enough 3 of my non-techy friends switched to Ubuntu just to avoid Windows.
Disclaimer: All 3 were gamers that saw me playing the games they cared about on Steam Deck. So it was actually Steam Deck that did the heavy lifting in this example.
I mean, it’s not mainstream Linux usage, but it’s a damn good step forward, right? Even if it is just people giving it reasonable consideration 😄
Edit: Typo
I would say the Steam Deck has been the major impetus for Linux adoption for a couple of years now. I know it sealed the deal for me, when I went into desktop mode and learned that KDE is basically Windows but better lol.
But Linux, particularly Linux gaming, owes so much to Valve/Proton for the direction we’re going.
2024 was a great start with the release of Plasma 6, and the Pros of Wayland now generally outweighing the Cons.
With any luck, Linux desktop will get the most installations wrapped as an Android app.
Linux tablet where I can dual boot linux and android (without proprietery shit) would be cool
