NotJustBikes uses Linux!
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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
Just checked NotJustBikes YouTube, they got some good content there
I'm more surprised at PewDiePie, tbh. Jason runs a Mastodon instance, with the account notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com (I'm hoping that by leaving out the @ sign before the local username, that won't send him an unwanted notification), so the fact that he's also a Linux user is less surprising. I don't watch PDP, but I gather he has a very large and impressionable audience, so him promoting Linux should be good!
I was surprised to see him promoting Linux as well. People should not be shy about this.
PDP is actually running his game videos on Linux? That would be pretty amazing.
He doesn't do a lot of gaming videos now, but it does seem so. He talked about Proton and running OBS, so for anything Linux compatible via Proton is likely that's what he's doing
Hot take (?): For anyone who has made the switch, it was the year or the Linux desktop. 🤷♂️
I remember it so clearly. "Ooh, multiple desktops. It'll take forever until Windows gets this." (It was 1996. Newbies should try messing with fvwm. Now that was configurable.)
Nah I definitely was giving stuff up to use Linux back in the day. Really, I'd say 2021 was when things got REALLY good.
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.
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.)
Every Year Is The Year Of The Linux Desktop!
mine is this year!
mine was last year
That's a fun take! My year of Linux was 2007.
Same 🙂 Around 2004 ish I started experimenting with live CDs of some KDE distro. I managed to also corrupt one of my hard drives doing so. Not a fun day I remember. But I learned some valuables that day, for sure.
And for many - it will be 😀
Ok I love bike lanes now. Since 1996 is a true OG
I just checked and it was 1996 for me as well. I started with DLD and a 2.0 kernel. Man, those were hard times. There was no internet, I could only dial into a BBS, where I could chat with people who were using Linux. If I had problems setting up dial-up? Well... Also getting a printer to work still haunts me to this day.
Ok I love bike lanes now
Ok but if you haven't already, you really should watch the channel's videos. They're insanely good, and show why good city design is good for bikes, but it's not just bikes.
I read it in my head in his voice.
If '25 isn't due to people knowing win10 is going to die, '26 will be when they realize it's dead. Started during <10.whatever Ubuntu but have been running windows because I own a nvidia GPU that I want to use to play games. I'm confident in bazzite to go full time this year but I honesty want steamos on my main PC. I've used it for however many years since first batch steamdecks arrived and I love it. I promise to be a fanboy if steamos can do nvidia egpus and vr headsets with less that 5 minutes of tinkering.
Steam OS is not, and will not be a desktop OS. Bazzite is the desktop OS you want. No need to wait. The future is now.
I've seen a lot of comments online of people saying they'll leave Windows 10 once SteamOS has general availability. I fear that'll lead them to having a bad experience with Linux because they'll be expecting a desktop OS but instead receive an OS that turns their computer into a console. There's a couple features Bazzite has (like printer drivers) which you might want on something replacing Windows 10 but you probably don't care about if you have a handheld or a steam machine
Lulz, normal people don't give a crap about Windows 10 not being updated anymore, they won't even realize it and worst case they'll get a new computer when they get a warning that their hardware is no good anymore.
You need a minimum of tech knowledge to care and there's only two generations with a higher % of people who have that, the X and millennials. Zs and Alphas use mobile devices and hit a wall when they need to use a computer.
Lulz, normal people don't give a crap about Windows 10 not being updated anymore, they won't even realize it
To this day, many "normal people" use Win7 (and even XP) despite it being dead for a long time.
Nonetheless IMO MS will somehow keep W10 on life support for quite some time after october of 2025 just for those people to finally switch to W11
As much as I like SteamOS, it really bothers me that it deletes Waydroid when it updates. Idk why it does that but it's irritating. Does Bazzite have the same issue?
This is a feature, not a bug.
Immutable distributions will revert themselves to stock (spare your home folder) on update. If you install your apps via flatpak this won't happen.
Since waydroid is not available on flathub, I believe you will continue to have this problem unless you leave immutability turned off completely, which defeats the number one safety net you have against yourself.
Bazzite doesn't have this issue. Waydroid actually comes pre-installed as part of Bazzite
I've been hearing this for every version of Windows since XP. If Linux is to become mainstream, relying on Microsoft's fuck-ups may not be enough.
Recall and AI in general is something normies understand and hate, and that's the fuck up windows is making. Even apple did briefs trials and immediately realized what a mistake they made. And if you haven't been involved in it, you have not fucking idea how far proton has progressed Linux gaming in the last few years and that wouldn't have ever happened without valve.
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