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Linux breaks the 5% threshold for the Hardware survey first time ever on Steam (aus.social)
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Linux breaks the 5% threshold for the Hardware survey first time ever on @steam@lemmy.ml

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45783520?sort=Top

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Guys its finally the year of the linux desktop

spoiler

And it should be anything but GNOME

[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

spoilerGNOME is fine I will die on this hill. It's not for Windows refugees, though.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

spoilermy issue with gnome is that it's not api staple enough to trust the plugins you install will keep working

[–] far_university1990@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

spoilerJust apt-mark hold gnome /s

[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

spoilerThat's a fair criticism. I imagine as it matures more this might become less of an issue (yes it's been around for ages but desktop Linux is only recently gaining some traction, so I give them some slack there), but currently it's absolutely GNOME's biggest downfall.

It's also partially why I don't recommend it for Windows refugees, if you have any expectations of how it should function there's a good chance it just won't work that way, and the extensions that make it work how you want it to are unreliable.

I personally have a cursed setup with GNOME and hyprland installed. I retreat to GNOME whenever my hyprland setup is borked, which is most of the time.

[–] eddiereasoner@mstdn.social 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@R00bot @mlg I love that you called them windows refugees. What about MacOS? (As a power user/software engineer)

[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I came from macOS and found GNOME pretty accommodating. It's more akin to macOS than to Windows, both looks and customisation-wise. I'm also a software engineer! :)

[–] cytro@mastodon.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@R00bot @eddiereasoner
Welcome to the free world and nice to have you here ♥️

[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks! I feel obliged to say I built my PC in 2023, but Linux still feels exciting to me. Trying to avoid becoming that annoying Linux guy who tells everyone to install it lol.

[–] cytro@mastodon.de 1 points 1 day ago

@R00bot
😂 After I did my first installations (back in 1998) with SUSE and Red hat... And I thought it was a mess. But I restarted using Linux in 2020 and it was a whole new world. Linux is grown into a real usable and flexible OS, and I love it... And well I tell anybody to try it out 😂