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I'm just going to say it. It's 2026, and it's the year of the linux desktop. Kys wincucks.
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There haven't really been any huge changes in Linux in 2025, just Windows 11 getting worst and people finally getting fed up with it.
God I wish Microsoft will be even more retarded this year. Please add another retarded AI feature that everyone will for sure love and it won't have any security holes in it. Please continue allowing jeets to redeem your operating system.
Anyways, my prediction for Linux in 2026 will be that Linus finally flips out and/or has a heart attack dealing with trannies shitting up the Linux kernel with shitty rust code.
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The LLMs got good enough that I could just ask them how to get whatever I wanted through terminal commands, which made the whole FOSS universe more accessible to complete amateurs like myself. And with such massive and broad adoption of llms by everyone and their dog I'm betting the linux share of desktop users increases by a few percentage points in 2026. I can't understate how useful it is not having to dig around looking for solutions on a subject I barely know the vocabulary for.
as for what programmers have been doing in-house with their distros and stuff? no idea.
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HDR Support is going a long way! I think at the start of 2025 there was basically nonexistent support and now there’s Plasma, Gnome and Hyprland HDR along with MPV supporting it natively so I’m pretty happy.
agent_donkey
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Its already their operating system.
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I may be both late and gay as fuck with this information, but I only just found out:
If you go to amazon.com and enter "amazon renewed laptop" (or "Amazon renewed PC") you can find all the internally returned stuff thats being sold at a discount. It may have a scuff mark from being dropped off a forklift.
I've just got a mid-range HP laptop for under $200 that should run like molten shit once I scrub W11 off it
If you go to amazon.com and enter "amazon renewed laptop" (or "Amazon renewed PC") you can find all the internally returned stuff thats being sold at a discount. It may have a scuff mark from being dropped off a forklift.
I've just got a mid-range HP laptop for under $200 that should run like molten shit once I scrub W11 off it
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he already got another one? I must have missed it lol. I'm guessing it was after that last sperg out. I thought he just realized he was being a faggot, I should have known better.
I think it was overall a good year for the linux desktop. If people were actually taking Lunduke seriously, I'm sure they would think linux, and foss is doomed, the last video I saw from him, was just retarded. He was going over Linus talking shit about the software freedom conservancy, and he was acting like it was some big deal. As if it's some new thing that different parts of the FOSS ecosystem always got along perfectly, and it's a new thing, and it's so much worse right now. And that's not me saying he was implying that. It's just paraphrasing what he said. Completely retarded. It's moments like that, when it really shows how transparently he is trying to drama farm to make money, that make him hard to watch. Anyone that's not completely retarded can see his whole deal. He finds something, blows it up into some huge deal, and gets people to pay attention to him. I enjoy it sometimes, because people get unreasonable mad. But after a certain point, I feel like the grift just becomes to much for me to stand. Also it is kind of dumb that people actually take his narratives, and talking points seriously. He does break some news stories sometimes, and there are things he covers that no one else will. But once he throws in almost any editorializing you really need to just ignore anything he says, because it's almost always just following the same formula the news networks figured out decades ago. Tell people how bad things are because they tune in for that.
Anyway. For things that contributed to progress in linux's market. I think even though a lot of people aren't happy that wayland is moving forward, I think it's a good thing that wayland is actually usable at this point, particularly being usable for normie use cases that someone just coming over to linux would probably care about. Also on the other side, I think xlibre getting started is great for linux long term. Provided the project doesn't fall apart or something. Another thing, is nvidia. It's looking better now for nvidia on linux than it has in a long time. It's definitely not perfect, and if you have an older card you are basically fucked still. But for newer ones, at this point the open source drivers are the ones that are officially reccommended everywhere. Which is something I never would have seen coming. Hopefully things go well enough in their eyes with this that they actually start trying to work with the kernel in a similar way that intel does. Where intel will put in the work to upstream drivers before the hardware even comes out. There are plenty of other things I would have said if it wasn't in the conext of linux's progress in the market, but those are what come to mind.
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Ubuntu Server continues to prove itself a reliable, trusty workhorse. I've got 8 days of uptime on this unit, and even with Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr, qBitTorrent, Gluetun, FreshRSS, Wallabag, WireGuard, and now Navidrome set up, my old gaming PC's only using like 2GB RAM tops... and I still haven't upgraded from 16GB that I set up back in 2019. Yeah, an N100 or a Ryzen APU mini PC with my USB hard drives for storage would probably be way better in terms of power efficiency and cost/performance. I don't care about any of that since I'm so fucking giddy at how my old gaming PC that I assembled and upgraded since 2017 is handling all this home server crap with aplomb.
I haven't even touched Proxmox, let alone TrueNAS, Unraid, or any of these other fancy shmancy tools. I'm sure they're great stuff, but seriously... I can't believe how far you're able to go on bare bones Ubuntu Server,
docker-compose, and a budget AM4 B350 hardware setup. Yeah, it's a real kick in the pants that AMD doesn't give a crap about Polaris or Vega for ROCm even though Polaris and Vega were abused for cryptomining between 2017 and 2020. Y'know what ain't a kick in the pants? How my RX Vega 64 is sipping power while transcoding media.This reference Sapphire RX Vega 64 with the shitty blower cooler is sipping power instead of guzzling it like it normally would in years past. My temps for this GPU never hit above 40C. It's actually closer to friggin 32-33C, which is mind-bending. Yeah, no graphical environment to run since it's headless, no gaming loads, no CAD loads, I get it... but the novelty of this Vega basically idling while transcoding all my Jellyfin media never wears off. Especially with the HBM2 bus that somehow gives me like 480Gbps throughput or some astronomical value like that.
I had Batman Beyond playing in one Jellyfin browser window while I was browsing FreshRSS and sending articles to Wallabag in another browser window. Close out Jellyfin, keep FreshRSS open so I can catch up on my podcast while playing Dark Souls, New Super Mario Bros 2, Etrian Odyssey Untold, or anything else along those lines. It's comfy stuff! Comfy and fucking seamless. No microstutters, no buffering, no hangs, freezes, or 502/504/404/429 errors, it's just... stable, constant, dependable, reliable, insert synonym here I haven't yet rattled off.
I know I'm gonna hit a wall sooner or later, but it's already fairly telegraphed. Either I'll get hamstrung by RAM or by storage. Fingers crossed that DDR4 comes back down in price so I can max out this B350 motherboard at 64GB. I'd prefer that sooner than getting a pair of IronWolf or WD Red drives @ 25TB a piece.
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They arent actually open source, only the kernel header is
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loss32 is made by a weeaboo tranny. That's why. The completely unnecessary jokey-joke meme reference name, the way of writing, the insufferably old-new website itself, the sparkles emoji "she", the self-pittying blog posts about "dreams of a pluralistic world, or: why discord and twitter are the last good social media ", everything is Peak Troon. There's a thorough grooming waiting just beyond the e-corner. I'm surprised there isn't a Rust shoein, but with Wayland that's a given.
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The tranny has to be nearly 40 years old, to be referencing loss and expecting people to get it.
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I'm still running my home server on a gaming PC I built in 2011. Good hardware doesn't really age anymore especially if you were sensible and bought reliable parts where it counts, the PSU and motherboard.
Couple things you might want to consider:
- If you get a few hard drives going they're going to be the bulk of the power use. My setup with 7 hard drives I've estimated at around 120w of it is hard drives, my UPS says I'm using 200w usually between that server and a not at all power efficient Mac Pro 2013 left running.
- Depending on where you live that power isn't necessarily going to waste. Here it's friggin cold half the year so 200w is ultimately going to end up being a near 100% conversion to heat to help heat my home. Yeah, when the AC is running in the hottest parts of summer it's not so great but really for me that's a concern of some portion of 1/4 of the year, good time for me to just leave the Mac Pro off.
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Knowing this, I'm even more tempted to put my old Ryzen 5 2600 to good use, maybe with an X{3,4,5}70 board. I still have the GTX 1050 Ti from 2017 I originally built the PC with, and that original 8GB stick of G.Skill Ripjaws V RAM I jumpstarted the build with all those years ago. Slot in a good PSU, new drives, maybe an Intel NIC to make my own router alongside some good beacons. There's even a Q6600 that I have knocking around alongside an NVIDIA GT 620. Do I dare go maximalist on the home server front until I have no spare parts remaining? Who knows? That's the fun!
ProudSkibidiTolietAryan
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GNOME IS NOW MAKING DONATION POPUPS. I GOT THIS WHILE PLAYING COUNTER STRIKE SOURCE(I just got it this December pretty good game)
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Just make sure to test everything well. I bought a "renewed" Chromebook for my mother. Advertised having a touch screen but the one that came did not have a touch screen working. Next one I bought did just fine. But make sure you hold their feet to the fire because the testing on these is poor. Return policy worked great though.
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I'm a brownoid whose personal beliefs and politics make me a race traitor and a Nazi who should die according to the arbitrary standards set by GNOME developers... but that won't stop them from forcing bullshit notifications saying "PWEASE DONATE TO US UWU." GNOME Shell and its consequences was a disaster for Unix-like operating systems. I honestly can't wait for Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce to pool their shit together to maintain GTK2 and GTK3 without ever touching GTK4-onward. The GNOME developers clearly lost the plot around 2011, and they started huffing their farts so aggressively circa 2020ish where the oxygen supply to their collective brain is permanently atrophied.
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They started making UX changes without justification in like 2016. That was when I quit using GNOME and switched to DWM. GNOME 3 used to be decent. I prefered it to G2/Mate for a few years at the start.
August Levasseur
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KDE did this a couple months back and made a shit ton of money so it’s really not surprising that other projects are doing it too. I, for one, hope that someone takes the time to develop some kind of unified nagging framework, so you don’t have to deal with 10 billion popups from all of the different projects, and instead just like one or two throughout the year
HairyBadger
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Yeah what the fuck is that about?
ProudSkibidiTolietAryan
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Although I can KINDA fuck with this new design
Although I have a beefy PC so I don't know HOW well it would fare on low powered systems compared to the new one