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    1725 points taubek | 14 comments | 27 Mar 23 05:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.792s | source | bottom
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    kstenerud ◴[27 Mar 23 06:10 UTC] No.35323424[source]▶
    I finally made the switch to Ubuntu Mate on Friday and WOW, color me impressed!

    The only reason I stuck with Windows on my desktop machine for so long was gaming, and the last time I tried switching over was 10 years ago. Spoiler: it was a shitshow.

    This time, things are MUCH better! The Mate desktop environment is simple, stable, clean, does the job and gets out of your way (kinda reminds me of Windows 2000). Steam's Proton makes running games a breeze. All of my favorites just work. I could even run battle.net as a non-steam game, USING Steam's Proton!

    And the kicker? Blizzard's recently opened beta of Diablo 4 just worked. As in, I clicked install, clicked play, and it just worked. Perfectly. As if I were still running under Windows. I've never before seen such sorcery.

    So bye bye Windows, except when I'm running one as a VM.

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    1. lexandstuff ◴[27 Mar 23 07:14 UTC] No.35323762[source]▶
    This will surely be the year of the Linux desktop.
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    2. gryn ◴[27 Mar 23 07:37 UTC] No.35323928[source]▶
    has been the case for me for more than 5 years.
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    3. nunodonato ◴[27 Mar 23 07:41 UTC] No.35323956[source]▶
    20 years here, going fine :) But I guess the joke never ends
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    4. AdamN ◴[27 Mar 23 07:44 UTC] No.35323975[source]▶
    Once Infrastructure Week is finished ... just a little bit longer
    5. labster ◴[27 Mar 23 07:51 UTC] No.35324021{3}[source]▶
    No, 20 years is the fusion power joke, not the year of the linux desktop joke
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    6. MikeTheGreat ◴[27 Mar 23 08:18 UTC] No.35324191{4}[source]▶
    I thought that fusion is 40 years away, and has been every year for the past 50 years? :)

    The "Year Of The Linux Desktop" has been a thing since at least the heyday of Slashdot, which would put it at 20-ish years.

    Unless that was intended as a humorous joke? Your post, I mean - not the Year Of the Linux Desktop, :)

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    7. HeckFeck ◴[27 Mar 23 08:29 UTC] No.35324265[source]▶
    You can even install PowerShell for your command line and you'll feel right at home!
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    8. MagicMoonlight ◴[27 Mar 23 14:07 UTC] No.35326837[source]▶
    I can run pretty much any game out of the box, even random games that nobody would ever have optimised for linux.

    The time of the desktop has come.

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    9. zamalek ◴[27 Mar 23 14:50 UTC] No.35327423[source]▶
    It sometimes does a better job than Windows at running Windows games.
    10. ChickenNugger ◴[27 Mar 23 15:43 UTC] No.35328143[source]▶
    Serious question: Did you play the Diablo IV open beta weekend? (It's live for 4 more hours).

    I did, on my Windows 10 box. The issue isn't random games that no one would ever have optimized, the issue is bleeding edge games that most people want to play, and play right now.

    If you didn't, can you? If (the royal) you can't, get started in the time remaining, download speeds allowing, the year of the Linux desktop isn't here.

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    11. permo-w ◴[27 Mar 23 17:39 UTC] No.35329747[source]▶
    I'm sure that's never been said before
    12. COGlory ◴[27 Mar 23 19:35 UTC] No.35331250{3}[source]▶
    From the great grandparent - they did play the Diablo 4 beta on Ubuntu.

    >And the kicker? Blizzard's recently opened beta of Diablo 4 just worked. As in, I clicked install, clicked play, and it just worked. Perfectly. As if I were still running under Windows. I've never before seen such sorcery.

    13. labster ◴[27 Mar 23 19:46 UTC] No.35331413{5}[source]▶
    My post was less of a joke than Windows 11 is. But probably funnier.
    14. Zuiii ◴[28 Mar 23 02:25 UTC] No.35335056[source]▶
    Sure you can but what about cmdlets? Do we have an open source "coreutil" that offers reasonable compatibility with the standard powershell environment?