Starting to see the real motive behind the “AI hardware” hoarding.

Grabbing my machete and wading into the jungles of Fedora.

It was something I remember seeing on reddit some 10 years ago or so, don’t know how much its stuck but it stuck for me

KDE not beating their “windows vista of linux” allegations but at least they’re addressing issues eventually.

I’m going to write a thing and its not wholly insulting but it sums up I think the public sentiment on KDE for the last 15 years: KDE is the “Windows Vista” flavor of desktop environment. I actually like the aesthetic but for some reason it fills everyone who doesn’t like it with an endless rage.

“This is america, why are there more than two choices”

If you’re setting up an email client you’re almost certainly doing work on the computer and anyone who has setup outlook can setup any other email client so that’s maybe not the example to use. But you’re right in the sense gaming, office environments and schools are the major groups that train window users.

Competitive gamers want edges - a better mouse, a better keyboard, a better internet connection. The latest performance metrics show linux running many games better than windows so this means a major inflow to windows is losing out to linux.

The weird part about all of this is that macbook sales are also up like 4%, suggesting overall a move away from windows. And for most of those apps you listed they also work on mac.

If linux is eating the gaming environment and the mac office experience is better than windows (due to MS enshittification)… the thing keeping windows in place is legacy software, corporate products, oem deals and like historical precedence.

Idk one of my siblings who I never chalked up as a non-windows user and not particularly tech savvy sent me a screenshot of their linux install. If like the tech barriers to linux are falling then the only thing left to fall is software developers for commercial software.

Wow its like australia is a real country and not solely controlled by a cabal of oil companies, mining companies, arms manufacturers, car companies, finance corporations, and tech bros.

Occam’s Razor: My guy banged his computer.

Sweet

Well I guess its better than windows.

Oh so you’re just slathering all your vegetables in BEE VOMIT??

1st rule of Kernel club is you talk about Linux. 2nd rule of kernel club is you never talk about gnu

Arch is what all the villains in the Venture Brothers use.

Oooh this is why people love arch

The real question is “does it have a way to wake a steamdeck up from sleep”

Guy who owns the online, PC version of Gamestop: “What if we took on Microsoft and kicked those mfers in the balls?”

They should lean into the porn games and sell a waist mounted haptic device call it the “Steam Plower”

Close enough