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2023 will be the year of the linux desktopYou know, the Steamdeck’s success might actually make that some kind of true
@troyunrau i think the greatest thing to come from the steam deck is that people are slowly realizing that the aura of elitism thats infected the linux community for so many years is thankfully dying
@troyunrau @ioletsgo steamdeck saving the world from a no non-certified software future
@troyunrau You mean the Chromebook.
No. A browser is not a desktop. ;)
One could argue android is a Linux desktop environment too.
@troyunrau @Jop Have you actually researched or seen the state of modern ChromeOS?
@Sqaaakoi @troyunrau What is wrong with it? You can run any Linux software you want via Crostini. If Chrome OS is not a real Linux distro, then neither are other container-based distro’s like Qubes and Fedora Silverblue.
@Sqaaakoi @troyunrau @Jop chromeos isnt containerized in the same way silverblue is, chromeos runs linux programs in a debian vm.
when a lot of your devices are very low end and comparable to netbooks this is most likely going to be a problem@lunakitty @Sqaaakoi @troyunrau @Jop it’s actually a container INSIDE a VM, which makes it super taxing on performance and basically unusable
Which doesn’t expose much of a Linux userspace unless the user enables developer mode
@Natanael Like how other distro’s require Sudo.
No, not like that.
2024 will be the year of the kube
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@stefano @[email protected] @[email protected] yes i know, it was a simple jest
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@stefano @[email protected] @[email protected] i love kde
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@stefano @[email protected] @[email protected] xkcd 927 but yeah thats cool
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This is a triumph. I’m making a note here, huge success. It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Yep, the 2000s are the next decade to come back, and I’m here for it.
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My favorite open source story:
I was at the #Educause Annual Conference back in the early 2010s running SLED11 with the cube enabled. I was spinning away when the person next to me asked what it was and what OS I was running. I replied, “Linux” he said, “oh, that’s for you technical types.”
Later, same scenario (different person), but when I replied, “this is is Windows Longhorn, the pre-release of Vista,” the person was so impressed with Microsoft’s innovation.
I can’t help but roll my eyes when Linux is labelled as “technical” when all I do all day is click on icons and pull down menus. It was slightly more complicated a decade or two ago, but then Windows was quite broken too at the time.
(ok, I do open a terminal now and then to check on stuff, but I could just use YaST. And I don’t really have to check on stuff, as it’s just working as intended anyway)
@AnUnusualRelic completely agree–and note, I was spinning the cube, i.e., desktop, to navigate to files, not cd’ing through directories.
You’re point about GUIs is also spot on and reflects most users these days. I wonder why those “technical” users who use a Mac aren’t deemed “content developers” (writers, designers) or “end users” even though they may use the MacOS terminal?
Fuck it I want the cube.
Terrific! I used the cube several times to show the power of Linux to several windows users. Two were interested enough to switch over to Linux permanently. I know the cube is just window dressing, but never underestimate the power of an interesting display.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] so does this mean I can finally stop complaining online that “Wayland isn’t ready” because the “mission critical software I use everyday doesn’t work” or am I missing something?
@[email protected] @[email protected] Compiz was like giving your computer LSD
Beside the Cube, the Wobbly Windows was my fav feature. It’s frivolous, but also so natural to grab a titlebar and having the rest of the window sloshing around like a wet rag.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Cool thing: now you can configure zoom and set your own skybox for the cube effect.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Oh yeah, another cool thing worth noting: the original cube in QtWidgets had about 4500 lines of code, this new one in QML has about 1000.
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I still play Nexuiz, so, I’m cool thinking it’s 2006 for a minute.
@[email protected] @[email protected] Dreams do come true 🥹
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May the might cube gods bless us today!
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Champagne !
