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1173 points davikr | 2 comments | 12 Nov 25 17:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.407s | source
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perihelions ◴[12 Nov 25 18:25 UTC] No.45903825[source]▶
> "SteamOS 3 (Arch-based)"

Holy shit, it's the Year of The Linux Desktop, for real this time. It's happening. It's actually happening.

A standard Arch Linux/KDE[0] PC for every home, in a polished, vendor-supported package. Like Apple, it's a single standard hardware/OS pair, so, FOSS' fatal hardware-support hell might well be made obsolete. The vendor is a household name corporation. There's an incredibly fortuitous (for Linux) market dynamic at this point in time, of "commoditize your complement"—the dynamic that Valve has incentives to invest massively in giving away a nice thing for free, because that does bad things to its competitors. And Steam is... the killer super-app to end all killer apps.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SteamOS

This is real life!

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atonse ◴[12 Nov 25 18:29 UTC] No.45903881[source]▶
If hype is to be believed, Omarchy is also pushing a lot of devs to Linux.
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1. seabrookmx ◴[12 Nov 25 18:50 UTC] No.45904220[source]▶
Any devs that find the visuals, keyboard driven workflow, or cult of DHH appealing enough to try Omarchy are likely already Linux users.

Linux has been a great platform for devs for a long time. This is exactly why WSL exists, and why MacOS has a native Linux container[1] tool.. because Linux was eating their lunch in this user segment.

[1]: https://github.com/apple/container

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2. atonse ◴[12 Nov 25 20:38 UTC] No.45906284[source]▶
I've been using MacOS as my daily driver for 20 years exactly because it had the best mix of (what I used to say a while back), "Linux that works, and ain't ugly"

OrbStack has solved all the issues I had with running containers on macOS. It's just a wonderful piece of software that just works. (Not arguing vs container, just specifying another option)