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My Windows 10 install shat the bed so I’m trying Linux Mint again.
It’s crazy how a computer can feel brand new again when 50 different pieces of bloatware aren’t trying to all start on boot.
The gaming situation is so much different now with Steam Play and Proton. Although I’ve found that just because a game is Steam Deck Verified, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll work the first try.
I installed PopOS last year after I got fed up with bloatware, adds, and just outright annoying “notifications” in windows 10 and 11, and I haven’t looked back.
I found a great resource in the ProtonDB website for configuring proton settings as I have also occasionally had games not work properly that are steam deck verified. There are typically enough people posting how they overcame issues and their build components so you can try to match up their fixes with your computer parts. It helps a ton most of the time.
Yeah ProtonDB is great but it doesn’t always have a fix.
For example, Powerwash Simulator is Steam Deck Verified and has a Platinum rating and most people are like “runs great out of the box, no problems”.
However, when I tried it, the screen would blank every second until I managed to put the game into windowed mode, and then the lower portion of it was concealed behind the app panel.
This was on a fresh Linux Mint 22 install with the latest proprietary Nvidia drivers.
Also, you can’t install most games until you enable “Steam Play on all titles” which I had to figure out myself.
Installed Bazzite myself yesterday and yeah it feels like I bought a new PC without having actually spent the money XD
Didn’t realize how big it was in India, 16.21%!
Kerala have a big contribution to this since all the school IT labs + government offices here use ubuntu or its slightly modified versions. Wish if every state did so.
Everything I hear from India is generally pretty negative news with the exception of basically anytime Kerala is mentioned.
Technological sovereignty
Yup, we don’t need big corporations for nada.
In Norway it’s 29.1%
I honestly don’t know how to think about this. On one hand, it’s pretty cool that more and more users are giving the finger to Microsoft and switch to Linux.
On the other hand, Linux systems are gonna become a bigger target for cyberattacks or malware. I realise that I, as a regular person who isn’t on dodgy porn sites all day, probably have nothing to fear but still, I like my Linux lightweight and if they have to slap some antivirus on there… eh idk
Don’t fret! 95+% all servers on the internet run Linux so the attack vector has been there for ages. Follow best practices and your risk will remain low!
The best protection against malware is closing the security flaws they typically abuse to make them work in the first place.
The biggest security flaw though is typically the human itself.
… how do you close that hole?
Go BSD.
I wonder how much of it is that casual users are less likely to even own/use a laptop/desktop for personal use anymore. Mobile devices, and maybe tablets, have been the most popular way of connecting to the internet for a while.
Can you describe firewire in great detail?
It’s an outdated interface connection standard commonly used by camcorders in the 1990’s (mostly MiniDV camcorders I think); its technical name (or name of its specification rather) is IEEE1394, ‘FireWire’ is just the marketing term Apple used for it. I think Sony called it ‘i.Link’.
FireWire400 is really called IEEE1934a and has a theoretical transfer rate of 400 Mb/s, it can deliver 7 watts of power and carry ethernet packets.
The standard pretty much died off as soon as USB 3.0 came out AFAIK, since they couldn’t get higher transfer speeds than a theoretical 800 Mb/s (whereas USB3 supports up to 5 Gb/s).
My profile picture shows a FireWire400 port on the front panel of a PowerMac G5.
*insert Simpsons meme"
Say it again!
sigh 2024 is the year of the Linux desktop
We making to the 5% with this one!!! 🗣️💯🙏🔥🔥🔥🔥
I’m doing my part!
No really, I installed Mint on my home machine less than a week ago. Trying to get my buddy to switch too before Win11 comes knocking.
Tell him a stranger from the web says he should switch
What is unknown? Various Unix variants? Custom embedded operating systems ( does that count as desktop?)?
maybe browsers that obfuscate that information
Me, changing my user agent to “Browser McBrowserFace”
I know this is probably a joke, but don’t do that. It gives you a unique fingerprint.
So I’ve looked into the yearly stats and macOS stats and the fact that they call it OS X and the macOS version stats only go up to Catalina (the last 10.x, released in 2019) makes me believe most of these are macOS 11+ users.
Things like Haiku (or BeOS), ReactOS, ArcaOS, AmigaOS etc.
I don’t think they do but maybe they’re also counting type 1 hypervisors.
Edit: Nevermind, I thought they bundled in “Other” into that category; they didn’t, as evident by the chart below the stats which includes “Other”.
It’s probably just the case of they couldn’t determine the OS being used.
Look out, “Unknown” we’re coming for you!
Only 3.42% in Europe RIP
Yeah, hopefully government and EU interest in open source will change this on a large scale.
Both Germany and Switzerland both made progress in the last months.
Except Norway with 29.1%. What gives?
Server nation rise up
Ahh… That’s it! Of course it is. Thanks!
Everywhere, except India, it’s about 3%.
With India the average is a bit more than 4%.
Does java even run on linux
I was checking out regional market shares and it seems Linux has a 29.1% market share in Norway. Anybody knows why? Linux is almost twice as big as OSX there.
Penguins are comfy in the cold climate
So in theory, one third of everyone I meet should be a linux user. Yet everyone uses windows. 🤔 Am I the 30%?? /sw
Right? It seems fishy to me, that’s why I asked. Would love to know the reason for this.
I do actually know a fair share of people using Linux in my social circle, but a lot of them uses both windows and Linux. My family uses Linux for their private devices, as that was a requirement to get my technical support. And an increasing number of my friends are moving over to Linux.
What I find weird is the sudden increase of 10% (from 18.16% to 29.04%). Like, did everyone get back from vacation after a Linux conversion camp or something?
Good on you for converting even more normies to Linux.
What I find weird is the sudden increase of 10% (from 18.16% to 29.04%).
There have to be a reason for this. Maybe people finally got fed up with MS & Apple.
Well, lately Microsoft has hitting big on enshittification. More than usual.
I love the idea of using Linux. But then I end up playing Warzone every weekend with my family. Can’t give that up. The best part is that they want kernel access, and still have cheating problems, apparently. (Must be higher than my level!) But it still inherently affects me, as they won’t port to Linux.
Kernel level anticheat still can’t stop cheaters? Time for boot partition anticheat, let it run before the kernel ;)
Hell, layer the whole OS on top of anticheat software just to play one game.
Warzone Entertainment System, running the latest WarOS!
Funny, with a harsh ring of truth. I actually would be interested if they could dual boot with the game on a partition. That would make the transition to Linux easy too. But ultimately as it is, it’s “use Windows, or say to hell with playing games with your family”. I’m lucky that I still enjoy playing games with them, and them with me, so I gotta stick with that.
Naah, obviously the solution unrestricted mic and camera access with AI analyzing the stream to detect cheating.
Im at a similar place as you where I do as much gaming on linux as possible but then there are some games that just do not work :(. At this point Im really thinking about playing warzone on a console since there is support for keyboard and mouse (last time I checked).
stonks
Sigh. macOS nowadays.
They label it as OS X and macOS on different parts of the page.
What is the difference between these two terms?
Oh, it use to be Mac OS. Then it was Mac OS X (Mac OS Ten). Now it’s macOS.
How much of the unknown portion is linux?
