More like the cooler cooler RHEL, the cooler RHEL, and RHEL

I wonder how Asahi on Apple Silicon would do. I would think it would be even less

Should be just trash not trash-rm, but it’s like the other person said, when you go to rm, it moves it to trash now, instead of deleting, since usually I don’t want to truly delete things (i.e., I don’t raw delete when using a GUI, so I’m bringing that behavior to CLI as well)

You can ofc still use the old rm and do full deletion. Either sudo rm (unless root also has rm aliased) or /bin/rm

But also you can do rm then trash-empty for the same behavior.

I’m actually trying a new alias alias del=/bin/rm so that I have a quick way to get the old behavior.

Yeah I was mistaken. It’s actually alias rm=trash (not trash-put either)

I only have one alias: alias rm=trash-rm

EDIT: Sorry. It’s actually alias rm=trash

This was a great talk with a lot of nuance and history. Loved it.

Except that the Linux part of ChromeOS is still open-source and the growth of ChromeOS still would yield benefits to Linux users across the board.

It’s almost certainly much higher than that

First of all, ChromeOS is Linux. It’s a weird Linux, but it is Linux and can be made to run regular Linux software. It’s based on Gentoo. It’s not just “technically” Linux; it just straight up is. It’s even more Linux than Android is.

That adds another 2.69% up to 7.69%

But also, the 4.77% Unknown is almost certainly made up of primarily Linux machines.

So really, it’s a range of percentages anywhere from 7.69% to 12.46%. I would guess Linux users are at least 10% of the US market now

Source: The StatCounter pages the article is referring to for US: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america

World wide is also similar: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/

There we’re potentially even higher: 5.33% to 14.5%. That’s just shy of the worldwide Mac users! macOS + OS X is 15.35% worldwide.

Pop Shell 2 is the big one

I’ve not heard of “Firefox Send.” Why would I use something like this instead of scp or Nextcloud?

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

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 can finally learn cobol?!?!?

I don’t use Ubuntu anymore, and haven’t as my main in a long time.

My longest running distro is probably Arch, which I’ve recently switched back to after a year on Fedora and a year on NixOS

Ubuntu back in 2014. Followed by Elementary not long after

Will my ability to play games be significantly affected compared to Windows?

Really depends on the games. For the vast majority, probably not. If you play competitive multiplayer games, then it’s 50/50.

Check out protondb to see if the games you play the most work well.

Also semi-depends on hardware. Old Nvidia cards may struggle. AMD is def king in the Linux world, but it’s getting better for Nvidia

But as you are probably aware, the steam deck has been pretty successful. That wouldn’t happen if Linux gaming was all bad.

Can I mod games as freely and as easily as I do on Windows?

Hit or miss. Sometimes the mod tools have to use wine and don’t work. Sometimes they use wine and work. Sometimes they don’t use wine and work.

I have just done some modding of Monster Hunter Wilds, and it was about 50/50

When it works, it’s just as easy as Windows.

If a program has no Linux version, is it unusable, or are there workarounds?

WINE or a Virtual Machine

Can Linux run programs that rely on frameworks like .NET or other Windows-specific libraries?

.NET is cross platform as of several years ago.

How do OS updates work in Linux? Is there a “Linux Update” program like what Windows has?

It depends on the distro. Typically you just run a command in the terminal to “update all packages” or click a button in a store front.

It’s way easier than on Windows and is never forced.

Genuinely one of if not the best thing about Linux is how software management works.

How does digital security work on Linux? Is it more vulnerable due to being open source? Is there integrated antivirus software, or will I have to source that myself?

Less vulnerable due to being open source. You have all the security experts in the world, including Microsoft’s, able to view and fix any vulnerabilities as soon as they appear. Thousands of people getting their eyes on it.

There’s a reason that Linux is the back bone of the internet and nearly every server runs it.

And FYI, you don’t use antivirus on Linux.

Are GPU drivers reliable on Linux?

If it works, it will always work.

Whether it works is dependent on your GPU.

Like I said, AMD is basically perfect, Nvidia can have problems, but these days that’s less and less true (I use a GTX 3080 w/ out issue).

Mostly if you have an old, less-supported nvidia card (like pre-GTX) you may have issues.

Can Linux (in the case of a misconfiguration or serious failure) potentially damage hardware?

I’ve never heard of something like that happening.

And also, what distro might be best for me?

For beginners the correct option is almost always Linux Mint

They just seem kinda hacky and overcomplicated rn.

I was on NixOS for a while, which is sort of in this camp since the system build is deterministic an immutable, and I’ve had to switch away bc it’s just annoying. Apps aren’t made for immutability in mind, and sometimes when you (read: your OS) try to force them to, the burden falls on you to maintain it, not just the package maintainer. VS Code is a prime example. Some extensions just don’t work right. It’s not Nix’s fault ofc, but that doesn’t make it less impractical to use, so after 2 years away from Arch now, I’ve had to return.

Other immutable distros face similar issues.

On top of that, specific distros have reasons I wouldn’t want to use them. I wouldn’t use Bazzite, for instance, bc it is based on Fedora, and I won’t use Fedora again. I liked Fedora when I used it, and it has things about it I like, but it has a glaring issue: anywhere it can be non-standard it is non-standard. For apps to run on Fedora there always has to have some weird location for a config file or a different way to install a program or some bug that only occurs on Fedora. Fedora be fedorain. That rules out Bazzite, Silverblue, etc. I call it the “RedHat Tax.”

I wouldn’t say I’m against an immutable distro tho; I just haven’t found one for me yet. For now, BTRFS and backups + Arch are enough

I would, but I can’t get through their captcha (even w/ adblockers, tracking, etc all disabled)

Scrollables are neat. I think Niri or KDE + Karousel might be useful to me. Thanks for the tip

Yeah, I may just go back to Gnome/KDE.

I recently switched OS from NixOS to Arch which is why I wanted to give Hyprland a second try while I was messing with stuff.

I was on KDE before with not a ton of issue, but well, the tiling options on KDE are few and limited, so I wanted to go back and retry a dedicated tiler. I was on i3 and happy for a long time before switching to Wayland (which happened once I could get decent game performance), then I was on Hyprland for a while, then switched around a bit, and then settled on KDE once I discovered Polonium which I could live with.

I’m gonna give GNOME a shot for now, and just try not to tweak it too much (other than Pop Shell)