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Claiming <year> will be the year of the Linux desktop has become a running joke among me and my friends. So I wouldn't make such bold claims. But other than t

Claiming <year> will be the year of the Linux desktop has become a running joke among me and my friends. So I wouldn't make such bold claims. But other than that I am completely on board with what the author is saying. I come from the same background. Until just a couple years ago I had a Windows PC solely for gaming. Now I can't remember when I last booted Windows on it. Another weird side effect of this gaming revolution on Linux is that I prefer X11 over Wayland. When Wayland became the default in Fedora I was on board, thinking it was the new cool thing. But gradually I realized that it's really not ready for the big time. I still need X11 to share my desktop on MS Teams (thanks Microsoft for that btw), and I still need it for most games.

outworlder 5y ago
> I still need X11 to share my desktop on MS Teams (thanks Microsoft for that btw), and I still need it for most games. Which GPU do you have? I can run most games on Wayland on AMD (including the likes of Cyberpunk). I still boot up Windows sometimes due to the lack of HDR support.
hbn 5y ago
> Claiming <year> will be the year of the Linux desktop has become a running joke among me and my friends. It's an inside joke across a much larger chunk of the PC gaming zeitgeist than your friend group! And it's what the author was referencing. But he didn't really make a claim, he said "hopefully"
- airstrike 5y ago
  In fact, it was never really associated with gaming. It's arguably the most quintessential Linux joke since, I don't know, at least the early 2000s
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sleepycatgirl 5y ago
For me every year is year of the Linux desktop. How much progress it has made, is astonishing Also regarding Wayland, yeah, same. Then again, Wayland is pretty young, so I would say, give it 2-3 more years? Until then, X11. And there is many cute WMs on X11, but not wayland, soooo... I am stuck myself in X11 :D Alongside that, there is Pipewire. Yeah, right... Its quite impressive. It also fixed all my.. quirks/issues I had with Linux audio Anyway, every year feels better, and I am happy with that.
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outworlder 5y ago

> I still need X11 to share my desktop on MS Teams (thanks Microsoft for that btw), and I still need it for most games. Which GPU do you have? I can run most games on Wayland on AMD (including the likes of Cyberpunk). I still boot up Windows sometimes due to the lack of HDR support.

hbn 5y ago

> Claiming <year> will be the year of the Linux desktop has become a running joke among me and my friends. It's an inside joke across a much larger chunk of the PC gaming zeitgeist than your friend group! And it's what the author was referencing. But he didn't really make a claim, he said "hopefully"

airstrike 5y ago
In fact, it was never really associated with gaming. It's arguably the most quintessential Linux joke since, I don't know, at least the early 2000s
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sleepycatgirl 5y ago

For me every year is year of the Linux desktop. How much progress it has made, is astonishing Also regarding Wayland, yeah, same. Then again, Wayland is pretty young, so I would say, give it 2-3 more years? Until then, X11. And there is many cute WMs on X11, but not wayland, soooo... I am stuck myself in X11 :D Alongside that, there is Pipewire. Yeah, right... Its quite impressive. It also fixed all my.. quirks/issues I had with Linux audio Anyway, every year feels better, and I am happy with that.

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