Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧📈
Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧📈
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I believe I said it in a different post but 2023 was the year of the Linux desktop. Hardware like Bluetooth and webcams just work. Applications and games have gotten so much easier install thanks to Flatpak and Steam.
Now Plasma 6 is upon us. HDR could be supported this year. At this point avoid Linux only if it's missing a specific app you need.
I like Linux, and I don't plan to use anything else, but yesterday my internet broke because swapping the GPU changed the name of the network interface
That is pretty annoying. I'm thinking of buying a new GPU myself. My Internet also runs off PCIE so I could go through the same thing as well? I wish I had another GPU to try this out.
I did look it up, it seems to come from the way BIOS names resources. Im surprised software such as Network Manager does not pick up on stuff like this.
It certainly could happen. You won't have a problem, either NM will figure it out or you can easy change the network manually. It's just that Linux is inaccessible to a typical person until stuff like that doesn't happen:
To be fair, typical people also don't swap their GPU.
I've had hundreds of GPUs, I'm a gaming hobbyist and help other people out, but I'm really super green in Linux. Lots of PC gaming fanboys out there with nothing but Windows experience.
I'd still argue that you're not the typical "buys computer at a store" user.
only if it’s missing a specific app you need.
Like most video games.
I mean most video games just work and I game on my machine daily. The ones that dont are limited to weird kernel based anticheats and that is very few games out of the millions of games out there.
Nowadays all video games work on linux unless developers deliberately make it so they can't
I admit I don't play video games anymore. Especially not in the last year (I did have my eyes on Baldur's Gate). Perhaps I'll start Palworld in a few weeks. I got a lot of games off Humble Bundle (I subscribed to Humble Choice for a year and honestly even with the discounts it wasnt worth it) and Fanatical.
The only game I couldn't get working was the Batman Arkham Trilogy. Everything else I was able to manually force on Proton and play it. Monster Hunter World, Temtem, and GTAV were probably the games I played the most.
Mods suck for the most part on Linux. Though, I never try to mod new games.