#linuxonthedesktop — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #linuxonthedesktop, aggregated by home.social.
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@ewen
I can report back that I have listened to the whole #HardFork / #SearchEngine episode and it *is* worth finishing. Sure, it could have been better if instead of making it an experiment to run their own vibe-coded instance, they just signed up for accounts on existing instances, but I still find it encouraging that the #Fediverse is being talked about more widely. It takes me back to the time (showing my age) when the Internet was new, and URLs were only understood by geeks (of which I am one) and I saw one written in its full glory (http://…) on the side of a rally car at a Motorsport event. That rocked my world, and I knew right there and then that the Internet would go mainstream. Will the Fediverse also go mainstream (and what challenges would that bring), or will it be forever in the same bucket as the year of #LinuxOnTheDesktop? -
Holger from @b1systems, partner of #EU_OS, speaks tomorrow (Thursday 11 Dec) at #OSXP 2025 in Paris about #LinuxOnTheDesktop. If you are in Paris, don't miss this session!
Conference Programme: https://www.opensource-experience.com/en/
#DigitalSovereignty #B1Systems #ImmutableLinux #Fedora #bootc
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As I build my new home desktop workstation (the previous one was 10 years old), I'm realizing that I've now been using #Linux on the Desktop for over 31 years, since mid-1994.
The fastest way for me to check how long it has been was to go and look for the "XFree86 P9000 Server Release Notes" since I had to write a driver for my Diamond Viper card before I could get out of terminal land and into X11.
Linux has come a long way since then, and my new machine is a few thousand times more performant than the one that I started with.
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KDE Fedora 43 upgrade was so smooth 🤩! Some companies are famous for trying to make things that "just work", but this particular FOSS, maintained-by-volunteers OS raises the bar to "you don't even know something substantial happened" levels of just works.
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Job done. My Mum and her partner’s PC upgraded from Windows to Linux. One less PC going to the landfill. One less Windows device on the Internet. #Linux #LinuxMint #LinuxOnTheDesktop
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I’m updating an elderly parent’s ancient PC from Windows 10 to Linux Mint. Wish me luck. #LinuxOnTheDesktop
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Please ♻️: The Smart Country Convention #SCCON25 in Berlin and #PrivacyCamp25 in Brussels are kicked off today. Unfortunately, without the physical presence of #EU_OS, the community-led proof of concept to increase the uptake of #LinuxOnTheDesktop in the public sector. 2025 is the year of Linux! 😉
Follow us virtually and feel free to post your questions. Find our FAQ also at https://eu-os.eu/faq
#DigitalSovereignty #EuroStack #SCCON #EDIC #DPI #PrivacyCamp
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Please ♻️: The Smart Country Convention #SCCON25 in Berlin and #PrivacyCamp25 in Brussels are kicked off today. Unfortunately, without the physical presence of #EU_OS, the community-led proof of concept to increase the uptake of #LinuxOnTheDesktop in the public sector. 2025 is the year of Linux! 😉
Follow us virtually and feel free to post your questions. Find our FAQ also at https://eu-os.eu/faq
#DigitalSovereignty #EuroStack #SCCON #EDIC #DPI #PrivacyCamp
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Please ♻️: The Smart Country Convention #SCCON25 in Berlin and #PrivacyCamp25 in Brussels are kicked off today. Unfortunately, without the physical presence of #EU_OS, the community-led proof of concept to increase the uptake of #LinuxOnTheDesktop in the public sector. 2025 is the year of Linux! 😉
Follow us virtually and feel free to post your questions. Find our FAQ also at https://eu-os.eu/faq
#DigitalSovereignty #EuroStack #SCCON #EDIC #DPI #PrivacyCamp
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Please ♻️: The Smart Country Convention #SCCON25 in Berlin and #PrivacyCamp25 in Brussels are kicked off today. Unfortunately, without the physical presence of #EU_OS, the community-led proof of concept to increase the uptake of #LinuxOnTheDesktop in the public sector. 2025 is the year of Linux! 😉
Follow us virtually and feel free to post your questions. Find our FAQ also at https://eu-os.eu/faq
#DigitalSovereignty #EuroStack #SCCON #EDIC #DPI #PrivacyCamp
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Shout out to the annual developer event #akademy of @kde taking place this weekend in Berlin. You are truly pioneers of #LinuxOnTheDesktop and offer the strong shoulders that allow #EU_OS to make a compelling offer to replace #Windows in the public sector. Shall millions of new users benefit from your labour and creativity in the years to come! 🤘🚀🐧
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Ich hab über Weihnachten verhältnismäßig lange Urlaub gehabt und Überstunden abgebaut.
Ich war zwar unterwegs, aber unterwegs hab ich n Netbook mit #Linux #Mint / #Nobara, was ich halt gerad vorziehe. 😅
Daheim hab ich vor allem gezockt, auf meinem Nobara Desktop.
Bis die GraKa starb und ich den 10 Jahre alten Notfallrechner ausm Keller holte, auf dem ein seit 6 Monaten nicht geupdatetes Mint lag. Eingeschaltet, 10 min Updates, läuft.
So. Und nu musste ich letzte Woche zurück zur Arbeit, wo ich einen #Windows Rechner hab. Der natürlich n Monat aus war und erstmal Updates installieren musste, bevor ich mich am SSO anmelden konnte. Damit war 3/4 des ersten Tages weg.
Und dann kam er an und wollte mir Win11 aufzwingen, für das er erstmal 40 GB (!!!) runterladen muss. 😳
Ich hör auf über Linux zu jammern, versprochen! 🫣
Linux is toll und ich will nicht wieder weg. Für mich war 2024 schon das Jahr des #LinuxOnTheDesktop 😁 -
Since my previous laptop still works, but is physically wanting, I decided to wipe it out and set it up as my "occasional #Windows" machine.
I couldn't get the touchpad or an external mouse working during installation and struggled to use keyboard navigation since it is so poorly supported. I can't remember the last time I experienced such poor support for hardware with #Linux. Just reminded of the person posting here that #LinuxOnTheDesktop couldn't be taken seriously because of... flaws...
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#Fudzilla always has the best response.
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Someone repurposed the crazy repeated Princess of the Crystal transformation / plot exposition sequences from Penguindrum to be about... the Year of Linux on the Desktop. And I can't stop laughing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4FlL1FCbvA
#anime #Linux #LinuxOnTheDesktop #SurvivalStrategy #Penguindrum
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I upgraded the family PC from Windows to Linux Mint. Read about my journey at:
https://mattjhayes.com/2024/06/16/linux-mint-ready-for-prime-time/
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I bought my first Windows PC sometime around 1993, and Windows has been my home desktop ever since. That's over 30 years on a succession of different Microsoft Windows versions.
Microsoft's move to build Recall screen-scraping into the OS has convinced me that they no longer view me as a customer, but as a product.
For that reason, I'm switching to Linux on the Desktop.
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Here's the thing about #linux and #linuxonthedesktop
It's a hell of a lot better than it used to be, it won't work for everyone and very definitely your experience may vary.
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As I'm experimenting with #linuxOnTheDesktop at the moment (skip-dived a relatively recent Dell Latitude 7300 yesterday that Ubuntu certified), can anyone recommend a #mastodon app for #linux? I suspect I'll miss a lot of @ivory sync/features, but I'd like the nicest experience I can get on this machine
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Testing myself to make sure I'm not in a dream, because after all my compiles, it looks like my new kernel, nvidia drivers, bbswitch, btrfs swapfiles, and pinpoint are all working together nicely.
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The latest edition of #Microsoft #Windows has " #Copilot " an #AI "assistant."
It is #unremovable and #mandatory, regardless of how unethical it is.
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@brettcannon what's a "file viewer"? I use `less`. #NotHelping #LinuxOnTheDesktop
If I were using desktop GUI things more than a terminal and browser on Linux: Before settling on a distro's Gnome based default, also give KDE a try.
In my more moons ago than I can count past experience it was always more polished and helpful in that regard. (but my command line based user habits didn't need it)
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What's going on with my #fonts in #gnome recently? I have a nice font selected in #gnomeTweaks but it's using *this* ugly thing. Yuk!
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GSuite is a tour de force demonstration that UX can be really, really crappy if it's free or very low cost.
This contradicts the main criticism that has been leveled at OSS application developers for the past 20 years. Seems like people don't actually care as much about UX as they do about $.
So, stop listening to the folks who say otherwise.
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Incredibly, color printing Just Works to the same #printer from #linux.
Is this the year of #LinuxOnTheDesktop?
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@paintedsky I've been using Mint for years exactly for that reason. "Just works". And keeps working after upgrades. Give me all the weird stuff on servers that you like to throw at me, but my desktop needs to Just Work. #linux #linuxmint #linuxonthedesktop
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One of the pleasures of #LInuxOnTheDesktop is that you can install a whole new #DesktopEnvironment choosing from many options which are based on widely different #UX philosophies. Installing a new DE is almost like buying a new pc. I keep coming back to #GnomeShell (currently with #forge #tiling extension) mostly because left upper hot corner is deeply written into my muscle memory. But all the options (latest: #hyprland: wayland+tiling+easy-on-the-eye) are just too tempting to stay with gmome!
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Cheers to 2023, the year of Linux on the desktop!
#TheYearOfLinuxOnTheDesktop #LinuxOnTheDesktop #Linux #troll #joke
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For the first time in over a decade, I'll probably install #Linux on the desktop again, and see what the current state of #LinuxOnTheDesktop is. :)
Currently leaning towards #LinuxMint in either #MintCinnamon or #XFCE flavour (or install the other on the side, afterwards, so I can compare), or have a look at #PopOS and/or #ElementaryOS.
Though I am also tempted to try out any of the many #TilingWM available.
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Cheers to 2023, the year of Linux on the desktop!
#TheYearOfLinuxOnTheDesktop #LinuxOnTheDesktop #Linux #troll #joke