Linux

It's the year of the Linux desktop

Its going to end up 1-2 freak self hoster's torrenting terrabytes of movies for the jellyfin servers instead of just streaming their porn, and thats why linux gets a marketshare.

/s

Brilliant

It's probably SteamDecks alone.

I'm as happy about this news as the next tech enthusiast, but bluntly, it's not a big shift. Going from ... What? 5% to 6%? That's great and all but it's hardly moving the needle.

If we want a significant shift we need OEMs selling prebuilt PCs with some flavor of Linux pre-installed, that's as easy to use as the competition (Windows/mac) with compatibility that's both good enough and transparent enough that people don't need to think about it much.

Before we get Linux OEM PCs on store shelves, we need to figure out that last bit first.

That still hasn't happened yet. We can't even agree what window manager should be used, nevermind any of the dozen or so other critical services on the system...

The thing that makes Linux great is that anyone and everyone can, and does, make stuff for it. That's also the thing that's going to hold it back from being put on store shelves pre installed on prebuilt PCs.

TempleOS

SerenityOS is "a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core".
It's good enough to be proud of, while alienating normal people, not incidentally, like linux used to, but on purpose, like this sentence does, making it a great for elitists.

I feel your pain.

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I would expect AI scrapers to fake a windows user-agent tbh.

Surely there are people who bought Chromebooks for college? Or boomers who bought the $245 Chromebook instead of the $285 Win10S manufactured ewaste laptop?

chromebooks during highschool geometry

Nah, most of the school equipment/networks are monitored/blocked to hell and back. I'm not saying they can't find loopholes, but they're severely hampered, and when they get caught, it's a big deal.

A lot of that chromeOS is people buying the cheapest hardware at Walmart and using it as their faptop.

Just like a lot of the Linux is probably steamdecks.

"Femboy" or furry, obviously.

I use Arch btw.

The safe word is "Torvalds".

There are already quite a few immutable distros you could use today like Bazzite or Fedora Atomic. The main advantage of SteamOS is that it's tailor made for specific hardware, an advantage it would automatically lose as a general purpose OS.

Name me a feature SteamOS has that Bazzite doesn't.

Pretty much everything other than TempleOS. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku OS, Redox OS, Sculpt OS etc.