Easy to use Desktops for Beginners, who switch from Windows or Mac. Good hardware support. Installation especially on Notebooks is more simple than Install Windows.
It's 2024, and I use my Linux Mint laptop day after day, week after week, month after month without a bug or care. It "just works" for me. This "boringness" is something I deeply appreciate.
For the longest time before this final-feeling long-awaited "made it" state (on my laptop), there was always some irritation, some compromise, some papercut that would spur me to distro-hop every 9-ish months or so.
Now I don't _really_ care what a distro is, as I finally feel settled. Laptop? Linux Mint. Raspberry Pi? Raspberry Pi OS. And a VPS in the cloud? Debian.
Main improvements: 1. Drivers for our of the box use of common hardware 2. The general ease of use of most distributions (even for beginners). 3. Graphical user interface making things possible without any knowledge of terminal commands. 4. Simple installation and/or live sessions
Gnu/Linux ecosystems is now stable enough to daily drive rolling release on my dev computer. Before I had all kind of problems and stuck to 6 months release cycle
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Hardware support is so much better than 20 years ago.
UI design and usability has devolved a lot, though.
2009/10 was the peak for UI, in any OS. Some things are better (search emphasis over application menu with categories), but a lot is worse.
Victoria🌿💐🌳
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Flathub and Flatpak finally provides a unique way to install applications across all Linux distributions.
https://flathub.org/
#Linux #flatpak #flathub
HankB
in reply to It's FOSS • • •2. I no longer have to build kernels. No more "make config"!
3. Desktop Environments
4. No more hand crafted modelines.
It's FOSS
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •It's 2024, and I use my Linux Mint laptop day after day, week after week, month after month without a bug or care. It "just works" for me. This "boringness" is something I deeply appreciate.
For the longest time before this final-feeling long-awaited "made it" state (on my laptop), there was always some irritation, some compromise, some papercut that would spur me to distro-hop every 9-ish months or so.
Now I don't _really_ care what a distro is, as I finally feel settled. Laptop? Linux Mint. Raspberry Pi? Raspberry Pi OS. And a VPS in the cloud? Debian.
#Linux #OpenSource #RaspberryPi #Debian
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