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  • chxchx
    Jun 4, 2026, 11:08 PM

    I owe an apology to @davidgerard for being so skeptical about Linux on desktop. I installed CachyOS and it works. I have a HDMI 2.1 monitor and a USB soundcard on a KVM and switching back and forth works. I plugged in a Thunderbolt cable and Thunderbolt network just works. I ran Splendor, a simple Steam game and it just works. I still haven't configured a single thing. (Except some self inflicted IP trouble.)

    Let me assure you: when I abandoned Linux ten years ago it. was. not. like. this.

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  • Greg Harvey 🌍greg_harvey@tooting.ch
    Jun 4, 2026, 11:13 PM

    @chx @davidgerard The quiet progress has been amazing. I'm a Fedora user, there are two releases a year, so 20 releases in the last 10 years. We're now on Fedora 44 and it is *night and day* compared to Fedora 24! I persevered, not least because I have relatively simple needs so the foibles didn't really impact me too much. Great to hear more discerning and demanding power users are finding it's now totally viable. 👍

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  • chxchx
    Jun 5, 2026, 11:06 AM

    @TheEntity @davidgerard Microsoft forces users to it: Windows 10 is abandoned and Windows 11 is unusable so there's no choice, we are lucky Valve is paying more than a hundred open source developers to work on desktop Linux. Of course there are others but this contribution is pivotal.

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  • Jagojago@mementomori.social
    Jun 5, 2026, 5:19 AM

    @chx @davidgerard yeah, ten years ago it was still completely different and even well supported laptops had all kinds of strange problems. In the last few years I've installed a handful of Manjaro systems and the only real battle was getting the Nvidia 3060 something GPU working in kid's gaming laptop. It's some sort of hybrid with a low power AMD GPU for desktop use, so it has some extra complications.

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