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Hot take (?): For anyone who has made the switch, it was the year or the Linux desktop. π€·ββοΈ
Every Year Is The Year Of The Linux Desktop!
That's a fun take! My year of Linux was 2007.
Same π Around 2004 ish I started experimenting with live CDs of some KDE distro. I managed to also corrupt one of my hard drives doing so. Not a fun day I remember. But I learned some valuables that day, for sure.
Mine will be this year, I only have 1 system left to put Linux on.
I'm just currently learning some RAW photo editors before I cancel my Lightroom sub.
Fusion360 was dropped a few months ago when FreeCAD went 1.0 (after I learned it enough of course)
Welcome to the family! π€π€π«
At this point all my systems (except the Windows machine) are running Kubuntu, and NGL it's awesome.
Sounds like a good entry point!
mine was last year
And for many - it will be π
mine is this year!
2017 for me!
(I had been using Linux on some systems since 2002 and first tried it in the late '90s, but 2017 was the year in which I ditched Windows even on my gaming machine, permanently.)
I remember it so clearly. "Ooh, multiple desktops. It'll take forever until Windows gets this." (It was 1996. Newbies should try messing with fvwm. Now that was configurable.)
Nah I definitely was giving stuff up to use Linux back in the day. Really, I'd say 2021 was when things got REALLY good.
I'm more surprised at PewDiePie, tbh. Jason runs a Mastodon instance, with the account notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com (I'm hoping that by leaving out the @ sign before the local username, that won't send him an unwanted notification), so the fact that he's also a Linux user is less surprising. I don't watch PDP, but I gather he has a very large and impressionable audience, so him promoting Linux should be good!
I was surprised to see him promoting Linux as well. People should not be shy about this.
PDP is actually running his game videos on Linux? That would be pretty amazing.
He doesn't do a lot of gaming videos now, but it does seem so. He talked about Proton and running OBS, so for anything Linux compatible via Proton is likely that's what he's doing
[β¦] Iβm hoping that by leaving out the @ sign before the local username, that wonβt send him an unwanted notification [β¦]
Personally, I think it's okay to ping him. I would think it'd be neat to see where and what conversations are occurring.
If you want to mention him, I won't try to stop you (not that I could if I wanted to). For me though, I'm pretty sure he's already aware of the existence of !notjustbikes@feddit.nl so he has the resources to follow threadiverse discussions of himself if he wants, and I'd rather leave it in his hands to control that rather than have it thrust upon him.
If you want to mention him, I wonβt try to stop you (not that I could if I wanted to). [β¦]
Ha, nah it's okay. I think it'd be silly for me to ping him further down in the thread after the fact. I was mostly voicing my unsolicited opinion π
[β¦] Iβd rather leave it in his hands to control that rather than have it thrust upon him. [β¦]
I think that's fair, and I appreciate your considerateness π
Ok I love bike lanes now. Since 1996 is a true OG
Ok I love bike lanes now
Ok but if you haven't already, you really should watch the channel's videos. They're insanely good, and show why good city design is good for bikes, but it's not just bikes.
I just checked and it was 1996 for me as well. I started with DLD and a 2.0 kernel. Man, those were hard times. There was no internet, I could only dial into a BBS, where I could chat with people who were using Linux. If I had problems setting up dial-up? Well... Also getting a printer to work still haunts me to this day.
Just checked NotJustBikes YouTube, they got some good content there
Yggdrasil was the first company to create a live CD Linux distribution. [β¦] ^[1]^
Neat! Though, from a brief search, it's not clear to me if that means that they were the first "live CD Linux distribution" overall, or just the first company to release one.
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I read it in my head in his voice.
I've had this in my .zshrc for a while: alias $(date +%Y)="echo 'YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP'"
If you type the current year in your terminal, it will say "YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP" lol
