• @Observer1199@lemmy.ml
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    There’s absolutely zero need to mention any other OS than Windows if the article is about Windows.

    I guarantee you that 2025 will not be the year of the Linux desktop, just like 2024 wasn’t, and just like 2023 wasn’t, just like 2022 wasn’t…

    Signed,

    Linux users that aren’t annoying and aren’t driving people away from using Linux with their self-righteous smugness.

    • oshu
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      114 minutes ago

      Been using linux on my desktop since 1999. Don’t need an official declaration.

    • Rikudou_SageA
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      Nah, 2025 is the year of the Linux on the desktop.

        • Rikudou_SageA
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          922 hours ago

          I mean, I’ve been hearing it for 15 years, we can’t be wrong for that long, right? Which means that next year it’s 100%!

          • @naeap@sopuli.xyz
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            113 hours ago

            Yeah, I also think with just so few alternatives, just by pure chance alone this should already very probably be the year of Linux on desktop

      • @Monstrosity@lemm.ee
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        Would it even be a good thing if Linux became super main stream? Maybe we should be careful what we wish for.

        • Rikudou_SageA
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          How would it be bad? More hardware support, more users not feeding data to corporations, more software support and so on.

          • @Monstrosity@lemm.ee
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            I’m not sure. I envision a lot of regulatory stuff happening around the kernel as it becomes more popular & vital to infrastructure. As that happens, the direction of it becomes more controlled and eventually maybe becomes unrecognizable.

            But maybe the fact it’s open source flat out prevents that?

            I really don’t know, I’m not a futurists, I was just internet speculating.

            • KSP Atlas
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              The Linux kernel is already popular & vital to infrastructure, servers and Android exist

              • @Monstrosity@lemm.ee
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                12 hours ago

                That’s true.

                But Android getting more & more locked down as time goes on is a good example of what I’m afraid of might start happening once there are too many cooks in the kitchen.

                I’m just speculating out of nowhere.

    • babybus
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      1218 hours ago

      This is just a meme in a linuxmemes community. There is no need to be offended.

    • @Monstrosity@lemm.ee
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      Pretty sure the success of Linux will not ride or die on the Charisma stat of its users.

    • @EnderMB@lemmy.world
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      It’s really sad that this needs to be said. I 100% agree with the sentiment. The reason I use Linux is because most of my work requires Linux, but I resisted it for a really long time because communities like these are just incredibly toxic and insufferable. Sometimes looking at this community makes me want to rage-boot Windows and become a C# dev all over again.

    • @RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      In this case I actually mainly meant MacOS, which has a relatively big market share. Though for me personally it’s Linux, it applies to all other operating systems, with MacOS being the one large enough that people who use windows can’t ignore it. I’m not a fan of these “here’s what you need to know” titles because it doesn’t add anything, the title would be functionally the same without it. I was making fun of this by saying that I don’t need to know this and thus showing that (this part of) the title is only included to get more clicks

      • @Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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        I actually mainly meant MacOS

        Maybe I’m just dumb or something, but you’re really burying the lede on this MacOS angle by having your meme say “Me with linux”