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310 points speckx | 6 comments | 27 Aug 25 10:19 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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127 ◴[27 Aug 25 11:57 UTC] No.45038436[source]▶
Just recently moved onto Linux. Most likely not coming back when these kind of things just keep happening. I'm really surprised how well everything works. 120Hz HDR 4k Nvidia no issues on Wayland. Kubuntu 25.04/Plasma 6.3 is very nice. EasyEffects/PipeWire makes audio better compared to Windows. Steam/Proton/Wine works very well for games outside ones that have kernel level rootkits. Outside DualSense controller having issues connecting to bluetooth I can't think of anything that's worse than Windows while many things are better.
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fzeroracer ◴[27 Aug 25 12:19 UTC] No.45038662[source]▶
I moved over to Linux about a year or so ago when Microsoft announced they were going to start pushing their AI shit on every Windows system. I created a small partition intending to just give it a shot but ended up never moving back since 99.9% of everything I tried just works. It's really quite amazing how far Linux has come in the past decade alone and right now the only reason I keep Windows on my work machine is because there's still specific dev pipelines I can only do on Windows.
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1. input_sh ◴[27 Aug 25 14:08 UTC] No.45039956[source]▶
> It's really quite amazing how far Linux has come in the past decade alone

There's no meaningful difference in the desktop Linux ecosystem right now and a decade ago, you're just more open to it as the alternative got worse.

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2. fzeroracer ◴[27 Aug 25 14:27 UTC] No.45040203[source]▶
No, this is definitely not true. I dabbled with Linux back when I was in college (hence, a decade ago) both because the computer labs had Linux installed and because it was interesting to me at the time.

There were a bunch of issues with compatibility if you wanted to do any sort of gaming and driver support was pretty bad from what I remember. Flatpaks were barely starting to become a thing, desktop environments were very unrefined and applications like LibreOffice still had a way to go.

If you look at what's happened in the Linux ecosystem in the past decade there are in fact significant improvements and refinements thanks to the hard work of thousands of contributors making it easier and easier to use.

3. threetonesun ◴[27 Aug 25 14:31 UTC] No.45040252[source]▶
We're cutting it close with a decade here but out of the box driver support is absolutely better, especially if you're dealing with AMD GPUs, to the point where I find a fresh install of almost any Linux distro less annoying in terms of support than Windows.
4. tannhaeuser ◴[27 Aug 25 14:58 UTC] No.45040614[source]▶
Unfortunately, that's simply not true. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (in 2016 as the name implies) with gnome 2 and Unity was peak and Ubuntu has regressed since beyond recovery: snap or other desktop containers with unsolved/unsolvable permission problems, systemd, wayland, and any number of other zero sum changes behind the scene devs like to drool over yet not. a. single. user advance or new desktop app. Even the relative "progress" in browser-based collab tools we enjoyed since about 2017 is at risk as FF is left behind by the likes of MS Teams.
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5. leptons ◴[27 Aug 25 17:09 UTC] No.45042278[source]▶
I used to use Ubuntu but abandoned it when they moved to "snap". I'm not the most proficient user of Linux, but it was quickly clear that something was really wrong with new versions of Ubuntu. Mint Linux has been working well for me.
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6. olyjohn ◴[27 Aug 25 18:49 UTC] No.45043468{3}[source]▶
I don't think the Snap authors ever used Snap packages. The barrage of update notifications, to close my software constantly... that was super frustrating. All I had installed for snaps was Firefox and Discord. Imagine having a 20+ snap applications installed. What a notification nightmare.