Tried re-installing OSX on my 2015 Macbook Pro and I literally can't. The official built-in net-installer is broken. Can't make a bootable USB, because I need a working 2015 Macbook Pro to create a bootable USB for OSX So now it runs Arch

check out quickshell.org and stop gluing 15 different desktop tools together to make it even better

it is the year of the Linux desktop for me

i dont understand hyprland shilling it becomes a part time job to deal with your WM GNOME just werks and has peak UX theres 0 reason to use hyprland

Unfortunately it's not. Just ask anyone using Windows right now who is not tech-savvy. Shocking fact: They don't care about local accounts. What do they care about? To never have a reason to ever open a terminal or control panel. The average user doesn't want to be an admin.

Manifesting the year of the Linux desktop. 🙏

Been a Linux user for a decade and can attest the desktop experience has greatly improved in recent years. It reminds me of those China cities posts about how new and modern they are and ppl who travel there are culture shocked because of all the propaganda they been fed before.

even though i borked it last night the fact it uses limine with snapshots meant i fixed it in minutes (after trying to fix it in other ways for hours). but even all of that it's still a better experience and my computer isn't running on full tilt all the time now year of linux

It has always been faster. And don't even get me started on updates. Zero downtime as opposed to an eternity in windows or macos.

I click "Restore" on the VM in Proxmox and pick a date. That's how I install Windows.

problem is: most people never have to install windows or osx

too bad there isnt a decent local office offering yet. thats just about the only thing holding me back from switching.

Windows 10 going EOL might be the final nail

It looks like it 👌

Last time I tried hyprland I got frustrated with Wayland. Have the issues been ironed out yet?

I just wish it supported nvidia drivers so I could use it.

It's wild that this is actually true

It's pretty usefull to have a great installing experience when you have to reinstall you OS twice a year.

"Year of the Linux desktop" is a joke old enough to vote, but it's still funny every single time.

Its easier and cheaper to please a hand full of like minded nerds, than it is to please literally everybody else at the same time. While Hyprland does look nice, the general public would hate it.

It's been 20 years of the Linux desktop on my end. Omarchy/hyprland is great but the glaze is next level

Neither of those things matter, though. The real problem is what happens when people need to install software or have a problem with an update or have to deal with anything else that doesn't come set up out of the box. Linux' problem is that the user-friendly part is a facade built on top of a fundamentally user-friendly system, and as soon as the user needs to look beneath that facade the learning curve turns into a brick wall. Linux has been easy to install for at least a decade now. It's when you need to hit the command line to get something to work that things fall apart.

?? Installing Windows is clicking through a couple pages. Installing macOS is just waiting for a loading screen to finish.

As of yesterday, I can now personally vouch for Omarchy being the fastest and easiest way to take a machine from Windows 10 to a continuous boot loop. The installer only takes a couple of minutes to get to an unreadable flash of red text and then you’re off to the reboot races!

Has he figured out how to let me install Final Cut Pro, Logic, and commercially-available plugins and software instruments yet? Does it have Quick Look? Time Machine? Just because you spend all day in a terminal doesn’t mean all of us do.