Comment by hermitcrab

Comment by hermitcrab 3 days ago

8 replies

I've been hearing about how Linux is going to replace Windows for at least 2 decades now. I expect it to finally happen some time after we get 'too cheap to meter' fusion power.

cmcaleer 3 days ago

I shitposted about the ‘year of the Linux desktop’ for most of my teenage and adult life only to dual boot Linux for a bit as an experiment a year or two ago and have ~never booted in to Windows for anything other than games with anticheat since.

It’s more a case of Windows getting significantly worse and feeling like malware than Linux desktop being THAT much better than the last time I tried it, but between proton and maybe 95%+ of my work being in a browser window or browser window (Electron) these days, I basically never run in to compatibility issues and never have Candy Crush advertised to me.

  • hermitcrab 2 days ago

    >It’s more a case of Windows getting significantly worse

    No disagreeing on that. I hate how intrusive it is. I feel that I am paying for something AND I am still the product.

bryanlarsen 3 days ago

Aside: "too cheap to meter" got killed by inexpensive metering more than anything else. Metering used to be expensive, but computers have made it trivial.

wffurr 3 days ago

SPARC is scheduled to start operations in 2026, with the goal of demonstrating net power in 2027.

fulafel a day ago

"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed"