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

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[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Such a hard agree. My wife won't even let me install Linux, which takes out the more technical aspects of the above.

She's just comfortable on Windows. Most people don't want to learn something new and even fewer actually care about privacy.

Edit: Us Linux users assume that if Windows gets bad enough people will switch to Linux, when we all should face facts that normies will much sooner switch to Mac.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

that normies will much sooner switch to Mac.

Rich normies.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sure, for the mac pro line with specs that us nerds care about.

I think some of those M1 mac airs are really affordable now though. For casual use it would be a good device for a tech illiterate person.

[–] realbadat@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or a mini.

I have an M2 mini I use for iOS builds, cheap enough for me to buy and stick in the rack to use for remote builds. I got that a year ago for $600ish iirc.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah man. Apple still screws people when it comes to ram and storage options of course, but the base products are actually pretty good for the money.

[–] realbadat@programming.dev 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yep... It's permanently where it's at at purchase.

Which is fine, I don't store anything on there (Jenkins automations to build, local git repo on another machine, output goes to NAS), but it's ridiculous how much the upgrades cost.

If I didn't need a build target for iOS I wouldn't have bothered with it, that's for sure.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago

I might be biased running a NAS as well, but I'm not fussed about having a tonne of storage on-device. Yeah agreed it is bonkas how much they charge for that extra 8GB of RAM. Default should for sure be 16 by now.