Caveman

We’re up to 4% again 5% is back on the menu which will make 2026 also the year of the Linux desktop.

I’m from Iceland and this pretty much checks out. Pro tip, renting a cabin with a hot tub on days with good conditions is really good. Also travel with people who smoke so they go out and check on a regular basis.

The default theme could be better but you can customise a lot of it. Or you can wait for the current trend of rounded borders to end and KDE will be ahead of the curve.

Yeah Adobe just doesn’t play ball with Linux but there are people that have used it successfully on Linux though.

Yeah, I love reading these and I’ve been using Linux for 8 years. I recommend Linux regularly and I want to know enough about new people’s experiences to know what questions to ask.

Do you use Photoshop? Do you have modern hardware or fancy monitor? What GPU?

Good thing we can all boot up TempleOS and find the answers we seek. 🙏

Systemd is controlled by redhat and is a very large part of the Linux stack. It’s become so universal that a lot random stuff won’t work unless the system has systemd.

Compared to X11 to wayland or pulseaudio to pipewire it’s a lot hard to now replace an init system and with that in the hands of redhat which is for profit is not a nice thought.

But you know, fuck it, having systemd is a massive headache for people making distros that’s just gone. Everyone is using the same thing and things just work so people aren’t really complaining. If redhat tries some shenanigans there’ll always be a fork or a systemd compatible init system or even whatever Alpine is using now that’ll take it’s place.

Each desktop environment needs to implement wayland so it’s best to leave it to the distro you’re using to provide it as an option. For a good wayland experience I’d recommend KDE

Did you mean to add /s?

I remember reformatting a Windows computer to get a fresh install and I had to find the driver CD and install a driver for audio, internet and other very basic stuff.

You can open the link and find out. It’s 11%.

Nah mate, it’s very much exactly what it says. A ambiguous statement would be “Share of Linux devices on pornhub grew by 22.5%” which could be either in relative or absolute terms. Traffic increase is pretty much number of requests made from a Linux machine grew by 22.5%.

You make a fair point, programming skill is more important than language but picking a programming language is still important in a lot of cases.

Ecosystem size can reduce “reinvent the wheel” code.

Some languages just have dogshit performance like Ruby, lua is pretty good though and it absolutely matters when you have to crunch a lot of data. Access to developers is big since you ideally want to find someone with experience in the language your project is in.

Some languages like Rust are very good for making safe code but very bad if you want to get out a microservice fast. I could make an equally correct version of some adapter in a fourth of the time in python compared to rust and I know them similarly well.

Then there’s low RAM requirements like embedded devices, it’s best to run something that compiles to machine code and doesn’t need a big runtime. Java and C# become almost useless in very low RAM environments and you’d have to use Zig, C or Rust instead.

So long story short, depending on what you’re writing it can just not matter or matter a lot.

You mean js

/s

That’s why he’s not called Santa Clause with an e, duh

That will be labeled as “other” in those cases

It’s the year of the Linux desktop

Meanwhile Microsoft makes the start menu with React

I mistrust because it’s inaccurate.

I barely use AI for work but I gotta say that it’s the first time I can get some very specific tasks done faster.

I currently make it write code generators, I fix the up and after that I have something better at making boilerplate than these LLMs. Today I had to throw up a bunch of CRUD for a small webapp and it saved me around 1-2 hours.

Neon is still alive and well but there’s going to be another reference implementation of KDE coming soon so I’m getting worried.