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steeznson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m looking forward to the Year of the Linux desktop ™️
euphoric_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
agent_flounder@lemmy.one 11 months ago
It’s the decade of the Linux desktop over here.
tabular@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Been and gone for me.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Actually, yeah, that’s a cool way to look at this. Imagine everything getting support over night. The only reason I don’t use Linux is because a ton of the things I do on a computer require windows.
pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de 11 months ago
Cries in having to use office 365
KneeTitts@lemmy.world 11 months ago
cant use the web version?
pufferfischerpulver@feddit.de 11 months ago
For some word documents the layout is just fucked. Especially headers and footers seem to be problematic.
mojo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I had to do a video call with Teams and it worked in browser pretty well
steeznson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I assumed that was all possible in their browser web app these days
KneeTitts@lemmy.world 11 months ago
it may actually come now if this happens
orphiebaby@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Literally can’t happen. It’s amazing how little Linux die-hards know about Linux.
jigsaw250@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Right now, my Windows 10 installation is pretty bloatless and is easily revertable when an update wants to change things. However I’m definitely looking for a more mainstream Linux solution because I know these times won’t last.
Sanguine@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Check out Endeavor OS. I’ve been using it for about 3 months now as a full replacement to my old windows 11 set up… everything I’ve needed it to do, with the exception of a few games has worked either right out of box or with minor tweaks. The forums are active and the Arch Wiki has answers to nearly every question you may have about the backbone of the OS. System updates are incredibly easy and are done on your schedule, not Microsoft’s.
brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I use EndeavourOS and it’s great, but for linux newbies or folks who just want a stable OS as a daily driver i’d recommend some other ones. I used POP_OS before switching to Endeavour and that was a solid one for me
Sanguine@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
No experience with Pop, but I’ve heard good things!
StoicLime@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Fedora is my recommendation of choice. The default Fedora + Gnome workflow out of the box is absolutely flawless.
Sanguine@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah that’s the beauty of it isn’t it… a lot of distros and desktop environments to choose from; there is a flavor for anyone!
For anyone switching from windows I recommend KDE Plasma as it’ll feel closest to what you are used to.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If I may ask, have you tried MS Office on your Endeavour OS box, and if so, what version and what were your results? Seriously, if you have a minute, I’d really appreciate hearing your specific experiences with MSOffice if you’ve tried it on Endeavour.
I inquire only because MSOffice is the only reason I wasn’t on Linux years ago, and any distro that can run MSOffice out of the box, macros included, I will install today. Not exaggerating: I have been trying out various distros for the last month, and MSOffice is literally the sole dealbreaker. I even have an Endeavour Cassini Nova LiveUSB ready to go; I’m on Zorin 16.3 Core right now for the same reason.
Let me know if you can, and thanks in advance.
Sanguine@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I Don’t use MS Office, unfortunately. You are going to have a lot of people say just try LibreOffice, but that does not work for everyone so I understand the hesitation.
steeznson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve got a windows 10 PC that I built as a gaming computer like 10 years ago. To be honest it spends a lot of time turned off because Linux has become much better for gaming using Proton.
However sometimes it is really useful to have a windows computer around. Being able to use Visual Studio for C# and C++ projects is particularly good given how much scaffolding their frameworks give you. Still, if I end up having the system being forcibly upgraded or when it leaves LTS it will probably end up being sold for spare parts.
KneeTitts@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We would need large companies and developers to start making their applications for linux and right now thats very hard because linux has 2500 different package managers and no one wants to maintain version of their apps for even the top 5 linux packaging methods, so unless that changes they will continue to make windows/mac only apps
steeznson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Companies have got around this by only officially supporting one distro, like Steam with SteamOS (I think they also support Ubuntu). Steam also do static linking of the common libraries inside of ~/.local/share/Steam so that developers can be guaranteed to have something like zlib installed.
I think there is also an argument that linux distributions are converging due to systemd being ubiquitious. Although I personally don’t enjoy using it and have substituted openrc on my Linux desktop, I can accept that developers can’t reasonably support it and I would need to find a workaround to use their software.
artic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
we should have them support flatpak it seem to work on every distro i tried
d3lta19@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
The rise of Flatpaks will alleviate this issue, I think. Build a Flatpak for your app and you’re good to go.