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1725 points taubek | 3 comments | 27 Mar 23 05:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.764s | source
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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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lexandstuff ◴[27 Mar 23 07:14 UTC] No.35323762[source]▶
This will surely be the year of the Linux desktop.
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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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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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1. labster ◴[27 Mar 23 07:51 UTC] No.35324021[source]▶
No, 20 years is the fusion power joke, not the year of the linux desktop joke
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2. MikeTheGreat ◴[27 Mar 23 08:18 UTC] No.35324191[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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3. labster ◴[27 Mar 23 19:46 UTC] No.35331413[source]▶
My post was less of a joke than Windows 11 is. But probably funnier.