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3 months agoUS really wants that oil
Bisexual_Cookie [comrade/them, any]
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do you think Italy will go to war with China?
13·7 months agoMomentum, support and compatibility.
There are also other OS’es like FreeBSD and openBSD that are relatively widely used and a whole host of vendor OSes like IBM’s IAX or Z/OS or the open solaris derivative illumos (all unix based), not to mention the embedded real time OSes that you find in a lot of cameras and such.
The common thing among most still in use is that they are old, well tested, stable, have a lot of software developed for them + they are in most cases compatible with a lot of different hardware, these things need time and money to achieve and people aren’t going to develop software for an OS that isn’t going to be used because it lacks those features.
That’s not to say people aren’t still writing new operating systems, they definitely are, it’s just that they’ll never get as generally used or well known as the mentioned 3.
3·8 months agoI’ve been using wayland almost exclusively since 2020 because x-org doesn’t support multi refresh rate setups and it was driving me nuts to have everything run at 60hz. It’s been pretty smooth sailing because I use an AMD gpu. I have to admit that steam is indeed a lot buggier under wayland, I try to use gamescope for every game as that fixes most problems I have with them. My hope is that proton will use wayland for most games by the end of this or next year.
Debian’s wiki states that “Wayland is used by default in Debian 10 and newer” (on gnome, It’s also the the default for plasma 6 but that’ll take some time to get into debian as you say)
The granularity and scale of active directory is a major thing that is keeping linux out of offices, etc…I know you can do a lot with certain tools but nothing comes close as far as I have seen.
2024 will be the year of the linux desktop
Letting windows install on its own drive by removing the linux drive (otherwise it will select that drives efi partition), I use systemd boot and I just copied the EFI/Microsoft folder from the windows drive efi partition to the linux efi partition systemd-boot will auto detect it. As for minimal, just use windows 10 ltsc, or windows education and use a debloater tool that is trustworthy (I like winutill).