• Victor@lemmy.world
    66·
    5 months ago

    Hot take (?): For anyone who has made the switch, it was the year or the Linux desktop. 🤷‍♂️

    • grue@lemmy.world
      4·
      5 months ago

      2017 for me!

      (I had been using Linux on some systems since 2002 and first tried it in the late '90s, but 2017 was the year in which I ditched Windows even on my gaming machine, permanently.)

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        I’m assuming you mean gaming? Yeah, I rarely boot into Windows these days, honestly.

        Whatever it is though, it’s always a compromise. There are things with Windows we can’t get on Linux still, and there have been things with Linux which Windows still hasn’t provided, for decades. Either way you go is a trade-off. But when I installed Linux and started using it more than Windows, I consider that my year or the Linux desktop. When the only thing I booted Windows for was to launch Steam.

    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      3 months ago

      Yggdrasil was the first company to create a live CD Linux distribution. […] [1]

      Neat! Though, from a brief search, it’s not clear to me if that means that they were the first “live CD Linux distribution” overall, or just the first company to release one.

      References
      1. Type: Article. Title: “Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X”. Publisher: “Wikipedia”. Published: 2024-11-23T19:32Z. Accessed: 2025-07-11T23:31Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X.
        • Type: Text. Location: ¶2.
  • KindaABigDyl@programming.dev
    4·
    5 months ago

    I’ve had this in my .zshrc for a while: alias $(date +%Y)="echo 'YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP'"

    If you type the current year in your terminal, it will say “YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP” lol