dadarobot

the point of gentoo is spending all your time watching packages compile.

not talking shit, i love it.

thats totally fair. im just noting what ive seen. feels like we’re hitting a tipping point tho. i dont expect a majority any time soon, but i think we could be pushing 20/30℅ before too long

ive been using linux since the 90s, and its finally at the point where the only thing holding it back is specific proprietary software that people think they need, or maybe properly need. i struggled like hell trying to run software i needed in college around 2007 for my math classes.

if we get enough of a market share, there will be more motivation to port to linux. not that that means itll happen

so is macos people running the apple chips and osx is people still running x86/64?

ive noticed lots of videos on youtube of people switching to linux.

honestly, i think the Linus Tech Tips linux challenge videos gave many people confidence to take the leap, along with people’s general distain for win11, and probably also the work Valve’s been doing on proton and the “release” of the steam machine is driving all this.

it really feels like adoption has spiked.

whats the difference between osx and macos?

LOAF: linux on a floppy

i couldnt figure that out, but i didnt try much. kde connect works fine for me with gnome

better is a subjective term. it probably wouldnt work as well or be as feature rich if these companies werent pumping all that money in.

even aside from all that linux is not free from corporate influence.

bsd just isnt at the same level as linux for desktop use. for servers bsd can get by just fine, but linux is a bigger target market for software including hardware drivers, graphics acceleration etc.

spin up a bsd and try it for yourself. i quite like it. i used it on my nas for a while because i has better zfs support. some things are a bit different, but if youre comfortable with linux you’re like 80% of the way there already.

after using linux for a quarter century, using bsd gives me the same feeling i got when i was using linux for the first time.

i swapped to proton pass

$6.50 for nabu casa (home assistant cloud)

ZZ

got nix on a surface go. works fine, but the storage is rather small, and nix store takes up a surprising amount of space

it can except when im away from home. dont get me wrong, i use wayland on a few other computers. im not hating on wayland, i just find i have to keep using x and its frustrating and sad to see it being phased out.

i use x11 termux with xreal glasses for my travel rig. as far as i know, there is no wayland support for termux.

also when i use steam link from wayland it is very buggy. i tried again a couple months ago and had the same issue.

are these niche use cases? absolutely. but i have 2 different niche use cases that exclude using wayland. its a shame if ill have to quit using gnome (i know this thread is about kde) over this.

what happens after those x years?

yeah thats exactly what i loved about ubuntu studio. it has basically every creative app you can find for linux.

in the same vein, i was looking at the commodore vison os, and that too is packed to the gills with included apps, more of a focus on the gaming aspect. the interface is god awful tho lol.

as a long time linux user, im happily on manjaro, but flirting with nixos.