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2024: The Year Linux Dethrones Windows on the Desktop – Are You Ready? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 6 months ago by urska@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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NTSync coming in Kernel 6.11 for better Wine/Proton game performance and porting.
Wine-Wayland last 4/5 parts left to be merged before end of 2024
Wayland HDR/Game color protocol will be finished before end of 2024
Nvidia 555/560 will be out for a perfect no stutter Nvidia performance
KDE/Gnome reaching stability and usability with NO FKN ADS
VR being usable
More Wine development and more Games being ported
Better LibreOffice/Word compatibility
Windows 10 coming to EOL
Improved Linux simplicity and support
Web-native apps (Including Msft Office and Adobe)
.Net cross platform (in VSCode or Jetbrains Rider)

What else am I missing?

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[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Nah, the average "just werks" user won't leave Windows even if it took money out of its credit card.

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

THE YEAR OF LINUX IN THE DESKTOP!

It’s like Lucy and the football.

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[–] polle@feddit.de 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Because here are many people who did a switch to linux. How did you handle using a cad software like solidworks or fusion360 after switching to linux?

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[–] eveninghere@beehaw.org 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I wonder if atomic desktops would change manufacturers' mind. We have to admit LTSes like from Ubuntu failed to make pre-installed Linux popular.

Silverblue contains too much cutting-edge software to be pre-installed as of now, but if Red Hat decides to provide a mechanism for manufacturers to better stabilize Silverblue I'd take it seriously. Automatic updates with cleanly split customization mechanisms, and the source is available. If the PC is just supposed to do web browsing with couple peripherals like a fucking printer (don't ask me why), it might be preferable over Windows. And my relatives can't configure Windows on their own anyway.

At the same time I don't know why Chromebook isn't more popular cus it's probably good enough for 90% of use cases. (The rest is basically elderly people who want 10GB photos in their 2TB SSDs, only to lose them "accidentally". Maybe Chromebook can do that, too, but I just can't recommend it due to corner cases I'm not aware of. I mean, I don't want to test Chromebooks for my relatives.)

[–] Bell@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I think it's going to take a Microsoft catastrophe, something that disables machines for at least a few days. I'm thinking maybe a buggy windows update.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Or a forced update to windows 11 on machine that doesn't support it. That would break the windows install for good. Either they will find a way to install windows again or take it to somebody who installs windows on it again. Maybe maybe they'll find out about Linux.

Anti Commercial-AI license

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[–] Joltey@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Any source regarding "VR being usable" on linux? The current development seems pretty stale and it doesn't seem like that's gonna change anytime soon, especially if you own any Oculus headsets that predates the quest. I do hope the rumors of valve making the deckard are true, but those are just rumors and should be taken with a grain of salt.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I mean... it just works? Since the Index is out it's just been working basically. Not sure what else would be needed. Sure being able to use Quest headsets would be nice but unless Meta decides to open up, I don't think it would happen. IMHO that's a vendor problem, not the OS lacking support, sadly.

[–] Joltey@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

It's definitely a vendor problem rather than an os problem. But it's still a problem that the biggest manufacturer in the VR space has no support for Linux, hence i find it a bit farfetched to say VR is usable on Linux when the most popular hardware is not being supported by it's vendor.

Though there are community efforts like Monado that looks pretty promising!

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[–] dephyre@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Nvidia 555/560 will be out for a perfect no stutter Nvidia performance

God I really hope that'll be true.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 6 months ago

The one thing that would drive my parents over the edge is ads in Windows. They already use Firefox and Libreoffice.

[–] eveninghere@beehaw.org 7 points 6 months ago

Given the nature of fediverse, this specific category of people might indeed throw away Windows for their private machines.

[–] SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago

lol

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Been seriously thinking of switching to linux for my desktop. I mostly use it for games. Today I was looking at mods for Mass Effect, and the mod manager says in all caps - LINUX IS NOT SUPPORTED :(

There's probably going to be a lot of that sort of annoyance for years.

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[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Most people don't care. And that says someone who replaced his Windows XP when Vista was the newest shit on the market (I also had a Vista laptop back then). With every Windows version people argued and posted about The Year of Linux Desktop. If you are talking about number of users, then Linux on Desktop will not dethrone Windows in 2024. Most people don't care or the switch is painful in many ways. Don't get your hopes too high. My following argumentation is critical, but I am a Linux fanboy. Have that in mind.

KDE/Gnome reaching stability and usability

What exactly do you mean by that? KDE and Gnome reached usability long time ago. However thanks to Wayland the stability got a huge hit, plus KDE was always a bit wonky in regard that. But otherwise these are great desktops with good usability for a long time now. Way better than what Apple or Windows has to offer.

Windows 10 coming to EOL

This has never mattered. Most people just switch or buy next Windows version.

.Net cross platform (in VSCode or Jetbrains Rider)

This is not new in 2024, or did something happen here?

Better LibreOffice/Word compatibility

Better than what? Than the previous version? This is always the case and people don't switch from Windows to Linux because of that. After all, the application is available on Windows too.

... will be ... before end of 2024 ...

Will be remain to be seen if this is true. If there is one thing I learned is, don't trust estimation when software will be finished.

NTSync coming in Kernel 6.11 for better Wine/Proton game performance and porting.

This has no impact on Proton, but Wine as far as I understand. Proton already has an alternative that is similar to NTSync. So from performance standpoint, it has no impact on Steam games.

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[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Linux is about on-par with windows xp/7 as it stands, and it has been for a while. The reason people haven't switched is OEM and software support.

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