As I build my new home desktop workstation (the previous one was 10 years old), I'm realizing that I've now been using #Linux on the Desktop for over 31 years, since mid-1994.

The fastest way for me to check how long it has been was to go and look for the "XFree86 P9000 Server Release Notes" since I had to write a driver for my Diamond Viper card before I could get out of terminal land and into X11.

Linux has come a long way since then, and my new machine is a few thousand times more performant than the one that I started with.

#LinuxOnTheDesktop

KDE Fedora 43 upgrade was so smooth 🤩! Some companies are famous for trying to make things that "just work", but this particular FOSS, maintained-by-volunteers OS raises the bar to "you don't even know something substantial happened" levels of just works.

#desktop #kde #fedora #LinuxOnTheDesktop #FreeYourDesktop

Oh well, choosing a #filesystem and partitioning scheme is as deep a rabbit hole as choosing a Linux distro...
#nixos #linuxonthedesktop #btrfs

One of the things that make me suspect #Wayland maybe isn’t the solution to #LinuxOnTheDesktop Finally is that every time I have something Wayland-enabled that doesn’t behave like I want it to and I’d like for something I think is trivial to happen it opens up a gaping maw of horrors.

Example: I’d like to remove the mouse cursor from my weather display, which has no mouse and no keyboard and runs the ”only show things” compositor.

Difficulty tier: impossible.

https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage/issues/299

Job done. My Mum and her partner’s PC upgraded from Windows to Linux. One less PC going to the landfill. One less Windows device on the Internet. #Linux #LinuxMint #LinuxOnTheDesktop

I’m updating an elderly parent’s ancient PC from Windows 10 to Linux Mint. Wish me luck. #LinuxOnTheDesktop

Please ♻️: The Smart Country Convention #SCCON25 in Berlin and #PrivacyCamp25 in Brussels are kicked off today. Unfortunately, without the physical presence of #EU_OS, the community-led proof of concept to increase the uptake of #LinuxOnTheDesktop in the public sector. 2025 is the year of Linux! 😉

Follow us virtually and feel free to post your questions. Find our FAQ also at https://eu-os.eu/faq

#DigitalSovereignty #EuroStack #SCCON #EDIC #DPI #PrivacyCamp

Shout out to the annual developer event #akademy of @kde taking place this weekend in Berlin. You are truly pioneers of #LinuxOnTheDesktop and offer the strong shoulders that allow #EU_OS to make a compelling offer to replace #Windows in the public sector. Shall millions of new users benefit from your labour and creativity in the years to come! 🤘🚀🐧

https://akademy.kde.org/2025/

#KDEev #KDE #Linux #akademy2025

That's twice now that an update to #archlinux or its default breeze theme or related package broke my ability to log in. This time it appears to do with the default breeze splash screen. Changing to none got around the issue.

I learned my lesson last time though and installed timeshift and use it before I do updates. It was easy to revert back.

This one was odd in the fact that it was broken for wayland but not x11.

#linux #linuxonthedesktop

@mikeriversdale.co.nz
A good time to consider #LinuxOnTheDesktop?

I just saw something about Linux on the Desktop and couldn't resist.

#LinuxOnTheDesktop

Since my previous laptop still works, but is physically wanting, I decided to wipe it out and set it up as my "occasional #Windows" machine.

I couldn't get the touchpad or an external mouse working during installation and struggled to use keyboard navigation since it is so poorly supported. I can't remember the last time I experienced such poor support for hardware with #Linux. Just reminded of the person posting here that #LinuxOnTheDesktop couldn't be taken seriously because of... flaws...

@starchy

#Fudzilla always has the best response.

#linux #desktop #LinuxOnTheDesktop #YearOfLinuxOnTheDesktop

Someone repurposed the crazy repeated Princess of the Crystal transformation / plot exposition sequences from Penguindrum to be about... the Year of Linux on the Desktop. And I can't stop laughing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4FlL1FCbvA

#anime #Linux #LinuxOnTheDesktop #SurvivalStrategy #Penguindrum

I upgraded the family PC from Windows to Linux Mint. Read about my journey at:

https://mattjhayes.com/2024/06/16/linux-mint-ready-for-prime-time/

#Linux #LinuxontheDesktop #Recall #MicrosoftRecall

I bought my first Windows PC sometime around 1993, and Windows has been my home desktop ever since. That's over 30 years on a succession of different Microsoft Windows versions.

Microsoft's move to build Recall screen-scraping into the OS has convinced me that they no longer view me as a customer, but as a product.

For that reason, I'm switching to Linux on the Desktop.

#Linux #LinuxontheDesktop #Recall #MicrosoftRecall

Here's the thing about #linux and #linuxonthedesktop

It's a hell of a lot better than it used to be, it won't work for everyone and very definitely your experience may vary.

As I'm experimenting with #linuxOnTheDesktop at the moment (skip-dived a relatively recent Dell Latitude 7300 yesterday that Ubuntu certified), can anyone recommend a #mastodon app for #linux? I suspect I'll miss a lot of @ivory sync/features, but I'd like the nicest experience I can get on this machine