Why bring Erik Ten Hag into this? 😂

The journey of Linux has been one of slow but steady progress, accelerating in recent years. It took eight years to go from 1% to 2% (by April 2021), then just 2.2 years to reach 3% (June 2023), and a mere 0.7 years to hit 4% (February 2024). Now, here we are, at over 5% in the USA! This exponential growth suggests that we’re on a promising upward trend.

The article was written this month, so it’s conveniently ignoring the fact that the rise from 4% to 5% took 18 months. That’s actually a huge slowdown in uptake, not an acceleration.

But I’m glad it’s at 5%, even if it’s only in the US. Now let’s get there globally, and keep it going…

Mind you, the usage on the desktop, as the article says, is probably actually a significant bit higher than 5%, thanks to Unknown, and if you include ChromeOS, which personally it should be IMO.

EndeavourOS is fantastic. It’s my default distro because I love Arch, but CBA installing it manually these days. I’ve done my time with the Arch installer over the years 😂

And the community is great btw.

Grub had/has this issue every time windows does a cumulative monthly update. Systemd doesn’t have this issue.

Yeah, that purchase worries the hell outta me tbh.

Been using Affinity Designer and Photo for years, and happily paid for version 1 and the upgrade to version 2.

Now, I’m worried they’ll go for a new sub-based tier and limit features to the sub-version over the perpetual license, or hold features back for a version or two of the perpetual license version.

Or the amount of AI-related bullshit they’ll stuff the apps full of now, that will require a separate payment model for generation of images or fill-ins.

Eurgh.

The Nvidia card I bought about 3yrs ago to replace my old AMD one. Kinda wish I’d stuck with AMD, but they really need to up their game in terms of gaming performance tbh.

Always a generation behind, both in performance and tech. Which is kinda a pain, as I love em and have a 5800X CPU and would love an all AMD setup eventually.

I’ve had Ubuntu and derivative distros break on me infinitely more times than I’ve ever had Arch or its derivatives break at all.

Usually going from one major update of *buntu/Pop based distro to another.

Using Endeavour ATM, but tempted to give NixOS a crack and see what it’s like…

I tried installing Fedora a few weeks back.

It did not like my 3080 and broke horribly.

Back to Endeavour…

I’m using it in addition to Mastodon for different communities.

Bluesky has a lot (but far from all) of the old WoW community I was a part of on Twitter. So that’s what I mainly use it for.

Mastodon on the other hand I use for pretty much everything else: other gaming, privacy, tech, AuDHD posts, infosec, linux etc.

Different horses, different courses.