Linux reaches new high 3.82%

I will never get tired of Year of Linux Desktopping!

So every year till 2038. XD

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I wish! I've got the hardware to support it, but neither of the two ISPs available at my house support IPv6.

I tend to agree. And people need to realize that Adobe's secret sauce is not in their apps, it's in the multi-device interoperability. I love lightroom, but it's not the photo editing ability (darkroom has that), rather it's the fact that I can seamlessly work the same catalogue from any device (even if I don't use their cloud for anything but smart previews).

I think Adobe would cash in if they supported Linux - for want of a workable alternative, I'd even pay them.

Music device manufacturers need to support Linux too. NI Maschine (and others) is simply a non-starter...

It really depends, but some tools would really do that. DaVinci Resolve, for example, has a pretty bad Linux distribution support and format, all things considered, and it's still the go-to video editor for Linux users, despite all of the issues.

gimp noises

I suppose what I mean is that i am happy to select whatever software is best for the task at hand. I have no issue with paying for software if it serves my needs. In a few cases, that limits my options to running windows as commercial versions are unavailable on Linux, and it is my hope that more commercial orgs start making their wares available for Linux, especially in cases where there's no available alternative.

As for splitting hairs on the difference between gratis and libre, life's too short (so if I used incorrect terminology, c'est la vie...)

Do it. I switched a couple of months ago. I hated it at first, then cought on to what's different. Long story short; I never want to go back to windows.

The more the number change in that direction, the more game devs will not choose to ignore non-Microsoft Windows options too moving the needle to native support. Imagine a future where a game only works after enabling WSL with command flag workarounds if you want to play on a proprietary OS 😂

My only extreme concern, is, I run a Nvidia system. And even if my current list works, I'd be concerned about future games.

Yeah its really awesome how many games work without a flaw on Linux now, was my main reason why I still hat a Windows Partition for a long time

Its just sad that some Multiplayer Games wont work on Linux because they want to install Spyware or something that wont work

I literally did this two weeks ago, switched Win11 for Fedora and so far it has been an amazing experience. So far, I only had to dual boot to Win once, and that was because I wanted to play some SteamVR games, which is the only thing I didn't manage to get working (I know there's ALVR, but SteamVR refuses to launch for me unfortunately).

Just go for it, get a new SSD drive and dual boot your choice of distro. You can always go back, and unless you use bitlocker you can just access your windows files from the Linux, so there's not need to move stuff around that much. With dualboot, you have nothing to loose.

Like how do you replace

Most of the time there is no 1:1 replacement, it all depends on which features you use from these apps. Some suggestions:

AMD Software

CoreCtrl can do most of the important stuff from the AMD software like GPU overclocking, custom fan curves and per-game profiles.

Logitech Ghub

Piper has a lot of support for different mice and keyboards, maybe yours are supported there?

Realtek audio

I'm not sure what Realtek audio does nowadays, which features do you need?

Video recording

OBS is available and does pretty much does the same stuff as on Windows. If you need to capture gameplay you will have to install obs-vkcapture which is the Vulkan/OpenGL replacement for DirectX capturing included on the Windows version of OBS.

Audio settings

Which settings do you require? What do you mean with "Audio quality"?

Unfortunately most Pipewire/Wireplumber settings are hidden behind config files and I'm not aware of any applications to manage them. The KDE audio settings are quite decent but limited in scope. However, most of the Pipewire settings have a sensible default and probably shouldn't be changed unless you're doing audio production.

qpwgraph is quite powerful when you need to connect multiple devices together or have virtual audio devices.

I thought the performance hit was quite substantial, like 20% to 30% lower frame rates from using dxvk. Maybe things have improved?

Native Vulkan support is of course the holy grail but so few games support it. The only few I can think of are Valve games.

Not even World of Warcraft supports Vulkan, and they've supported OpenGL for so long.

mac has over 16% though, we still aren't even close

I'm going to steal this okay?

Open office is a dead project, avoid at all costs. LibreOffice or OnlyOffice are active.

Probably linux mint. Everything tends to work out of the box and function the way you'd expect. If you're used to windows then cinnamon will have a familiar feel to it. I like xfce myself, but I move things around to make it feel like windows 95.

Linux mint provides the best overall user experience including drivers support

I’m thinking about taking the leap but I need printer support to work.

In my experience printer support in Linux is generally pretty good. Even when it doesn't "just work" you usually need only a simple profile file from the manufacturers website that you install.

In general drivers on Linux have been way less painful for me than on Windows; most importantly you don't need an always-running application for every crappy piece of hardware.

But you still might want to check your printer manufacturer's website and/or make one prototype Linux PC and try everything out.

With that being said be prepared for users complaining about some workflow changes (that will be bigger with a switch to something like LibreOffice from MSO) and blaming every issue of theirs on Linux and you.

Please, don’t use Open Office. Dev essentially halted on it years ago when it was forked o LibreOffice. Use LibreOffice instead. The Open Office project seems to still exist to trick people into using old software.

I'd say keep it basic with Ubuntu. It's not exciting, but it 'just works' out of the box and there's TONs of support if you can't figure something out.

It needs testing to ensure you get what you need, but I found printer support worked better on Linux for my obscure printer. If you setup a CUPS server then distros will automatically find the networked printers. SUSE/OpenSUSE also has a very good GUI printer admin with lots of automatic setup and auto driver downloads...makes it so easy.

I'm loving KDE's Neon distro that's based off Ubuntu. I've not had to do much faffing around to get it the way I want it and anyone that has used Windows should be comfortable using it. KDE Plasma feels very polished and streamlined.

Debian is solid and will come ready with office and web apps. You might want to check out if drivers are available for your printers though. You can always try it out on a live USB.

Will the scammers finally stop telling me to go to the start menu to check if I have their virus?

Seriously, I'm impressed on just how much influence Linux has in India, not only as an OS, but as a community. I'm in charge of some of the Fedora social media accounts and it really impressed me at first how India is consistently one the top 3 countries our followers are from in all of them.

I have spent 3 days trying to install 64bit Linux on a mini PC which has 32bit UEFI. The funny thing is that this device is so slow probably I will not use it, but I still want to make it work.

If you're used to Excel or have some specific games that are not covered with Wine it could be a good reason.

Game pass is the one problem with no great solution in sight... But not great doesn't mean none. If you have an Xbox you can play them on the pc streamed over your Lan, and you can also stream games directly from the web as well.

Again, not great solutions, but it is unlikely we will see Xbox game pass running on Linux. I think MS will do anything and everything to prevent that.

Then there's the not-solution of running a windows vm. You aren't ditching windows with that entirely and, at least from what I understand, you'll need a second graphics card to dedicate to the vm to get "bare metal" performance.

Just finish out the gaming PCs life and evaluate a Linux one for the next buy.

ChromeOS is as much Linux as anything else is. It's controlled by a greedy megacorp, but so is Red Hat (IBM) or, idk, Oracle Linux. Yes it's based on an unusual immutable design, but immutable distros are now cropping up out of lots of projects (Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu, amongst many others, not to mention the Steam Deck). It avoids using the GNU tool chain, but the alternatives that it uses are already used by other Linux distros (like Alpine). It now uses the standard Wayland graphics stack, and is in the process of moving from upstart (a previously widely used Linux init system) to systemd.

It's hard to come up with a definition of "Linux distro" that excludes ChromeOS without excluding a bunch of unambiguously Linux distros too.

The equation for YotLD is simple for me:

Adobe looks at Linux market share and thinks, "Hmm, we could make some money from this," and ports Photoshop, After Effects, and inDesign to Linux

Or:

Adobe looks at ChromeOS and thinks, "Hmm, we could make some money from this," and ports all their programs to the web except After Effects because that involves massively extending web protocols again to support all the codecs and improving performance.

Yes Steam Deck

I used to say the same thing about mobile phones, now look, LOOK HOW WRONG I WAS

idk about others but I do use my Steam Deck for web browsing quite heavily. It's basically my laptop right now.

Not as "safe" as you think in that regard (I use arch btw), the reason they don't want it is because you lose control as the administrator. Once everyone is running some flavour of Linux and people report problems, guess who's gotta look at it? The IT department. It's a management nightmare compared to windows.

I solved that by social engineering our IT to join my "Windows" computer into the domain, which was actually just a Windows VM. They didn't notice, and I'm free to Linux away.

I also usw Arch (,btw).

But lately I thpught about checking out nix for a change. I've heard some good things about it, but didn't dare use it.

I feel like nix is kinda like the new arch in a way. Is that true?

I've personally had the best experience with Thunderbird, YMMV.

Damn, you know, I love automation and customization, and your description sounds awesome. I certainly will jump the gap at some point, but the thought of having to relearn an entire OS and suite of tools, and inevitably make mistakes that will cost me time and -probably- multiple reinstalls discourages me quite a bit. I remember using Fedora 20-something ten years ago on my laptop and the amount of things for which I needed a terminal was overwhelming. I also remember trying to learn file management by copying/backing up files from the terminal, and ending up batch-deleting entire folders worth of pictures. I never had a reliable "readme" for learning all this, that didn't already assume I knew all the lingo and was proficient in some programming language.

Well, I have opened commands prompts, but only because because they're fast at doing stuff with files and I like that.

But I haven't NEEDED to open them to fix or configure stuff.

Back in the early 00s that was pretty much par for three course.

I don't know what everyone else's case is, but my work provides a laptop. None of my home machines have Windows, but the work laptop does.

I don't know if we know it's shrinking back for sure. With the exception of Q1'23, there seems to be a balance around 19M sales per quarter. There's a way to read it as shrinking, but there's also a way to read it as stabilizing. There's just not enough samples to be certain.

What we have to remember is that we're finally reaching a turning point in GPU pricing. Laptops that were in the $2000+ range a year or two ago are closer to the $1000 commodity price. There had been a "value stall" that just broke, where a new computer used to not be a significant upgrade on an old one, and so people might hold onto their current computers a year or two longer.

I mean, I sure I pulled a few discounts out of my ass, but I just landed an i9 laptop with a 4090 for just over $2k as a replacement to a computer that died. Two years ago almost to the day I bought a middle-of-the-road gaming machine with a 3070 in it for about the same price.

Can’t do that if you play games.

I recently been arguing with some dude about some PUBG mechanics. It took me quite some time to realize that he was playing PUBG mobile, never played the PC version or even knew that it even existed for that matter. For him, PUBG simply meant PUBG mobile. For those people, they don't even consider using PC for gaming. They might consider console, but PC to them is just more or less a typewriter for school/office tasks.

What's Ubuntu's "particular madness"? They used to be a little FOSS-only, but they've chilled out on that.

I agree on the other points, though, with one caveat on both.

No matter how many games run on linux, it won't be enough because there aren't ever going to be linux exclusives. Without linux exclusives, there will always be more games that run in Windows than Linux, even if the majority of them run in linux AND run better than in Windows.

Office sounds like a big deal, but Apple managed to prove you don't need it. The real problem Linux has with office is that it has no well-marketed office suite. There's nothing wrong with Libre- or Open- except the complete lack of advertising and passive training to its nuances that we get from MS and Apple office products.

It's not that linux can't win on games or office. It's that the game is rigged against it on both. It took me a few years back in the early 00's, but I quickly realized that there will never be a "year of the linux desktop" regardless of how good Linux gets at games, office, user-friendliness, or anything.

And that's ok because MY life is easier when I use linux.

It was a specific choice. My PC is a little long in the tooth, sucks power, and is overly loud for where it was situated.

The pi is doing fine for my relatively non-demanding usage. If I do set up the old PC again, I'll probably wind up installing Mint or something, rather than buy upgrades and crap to support Windows 11.

Well, i got some feedback, most creative people don't find gimp good, they won't switch.

Well dunno if it's because gimp lacks good tool that ease up their workflow or because we teached them adobe suite.

During my art course it was : adobe suite and autocad with 3d max.

But i knew blender, gimp and scribus way before entering art school because i disagree with adobe's licensing system and found it very expensive.

Imho, the current best creative software on linux is Blender. There is also Darktable and Rawtepee for light, contrast.

For inkscape, krita, i can't compare, i never used adobe illustrator, nor corel drawer.

Scribus is good, almost perfect but it lacks a very important feature that i can't replicate. Adobe Indesign is far more easier because of the guideline that tell ya this item is correctly aligned and has the same size.

Kdenlive, well featured but i find adding video effect easier on adobe premiere pro. And kdenlive had a lot stability issue, i lost my work several time and that's how i learned to setup automated save.

Autocad easily outmatched freecad, there were a huge difference in functionnalities. I don't know if it has changed since 10 years. It probably improved a lot.

I apologize for my english grammar.

I know this is probably tongue-in-cheek, but if you wanted the serious answer:

GIMP:

• Non-destructive Editing (it's coming real soon!)
• Vector shapes, not bitmap
• Smart objects
• Full CMYK support
• Full PSD support (for collaboration purposes), hahaha
• KILL ALL FLOATING SELECTIONS

Kdenlive:

Well, I actually do use Kdenlive. I'm fine with Lightworks too, and Resolve on macOS. But it's lacking finer color grading controls, the interface is inefficient (being fixed in a future release), hardware-based decoding/encoding needs to either exist or be improved.

And the other big reason is collaboration with other Adobe users.

I didn't care about software freedom very much until after I switched to Linux, so I'll keep recommending Linux to anyone willing to listen.

I started caring about foss software only after i switched to linux

Thats class! Ty for the reply and your help. Sometimes I use translator apps/sites, but I know is not too accurate and I do some corrections (I guess?! Ahah) from these apps/sites. And yeah, other times i just write without any help.

My problem is with grammar plus I dont have too much vocabulary too understand certain things. But, one more time , ty for your help, appreciated a lot!

Android uses the linux kernel but is not regular linux we use which is GNU/linux but ChromeOS actually is GNU/linux a "real" linux distro

I agree, but it's definitely marketed as a gaming console of a sort, and not really marketed as a full-fledged PC.

So, imho, that technically skewers the numbers a bit, as it's not a "desktop" in the traditional sense.

I mean, I'm still not calling 2023 the "Year of the Linux Desktop." I'm calling it the "Year of the Portable Linux Gaming Console."

The growth in percentage in Linux in Steam metrics is almost entirely because the Steam Deck.