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Many years ago when I heard Munich City was switching to Linux, I remember thinking it was a reckless decision that was doomed to fail, and turns out it eventua

by mythz 1y ago

Many years ago when I heard Munich City was switching to Linux, I remember thinking it was a reckless decision that was doomed to fail, and turns out it eventually did as they announced in 2020 they were moving back to Windows. Which is in stark contrast to now where it's now my favorite Desktop OS to use, effectively forced into it after switching away from Windows after 25 years after MS EOL'd Windows 10 and started infesting Windows 11 with ads/spyware. Had some issues at the start with Nvidia/Wayland, but that's now all fixed and Fedora has been a rock solid modern distro for use as my primary driver. Software compatibility turned out much better than I thought with all my daily apps being available for Linux thanks to Chromium/Electron, .NET SDK and JetBrains cross-platform tools. Steam compatibility was an expected surprise with most of my flagship titles working on Linux. So after 1.5 years of leaving Windows I can't see myself going back, the disconnect of having a Desktop OS that works for you vs being hostage to an OS that Microsoft is using as a marketing channel for spyware and spamming their cloud services will only get worse over time.

techjamie 1y ago
> Had some issues at the start with Nvidia/Wayland I'm not sure if it's just the open source NVIDIA drivers that have improved it, but Wayland works very well on my system now. I tried a move from KDE (x11)->Hyprland last year, and it was not viable. When I upgraded my system to NixOS 25.05 though, I changed a deprecated config option without much consideration, and accidentally migrated myself to KDE (Wayland). It took a little bit to notice anything was really that different. Out of curiosity, I also installed Hyprland again, and none of the issues that I had previously are present. The only hard casualty in the switch has been Flameshot, and I had to switch my rofi package but it works fine.

by mythz 1y ago

techjamie 1y ago

> Had some issues at the start with Nvidia/Wayland I'm not sure if it's just the open source NVIDIA drivers that have improved it, but Wayland works very well on my system now. I tried a move from KDE (x11)->Hyprland last year, and it was not viable. When I upgraded my system to NixOS 25.05 though, I changed a deprecated config option without much consideration, and accidentally migrated myself to KDE (Wayland). It took a little bit to notice anything was really that different. Out of curiosity, I also installed Hyprland again, and none of the issues that I had previously are present. The only hard casualty in the switch has been Flameshot, and I had to switch my rofi package but it works fine.