alt Hacker NewsI've been hearing about how Linux is going to replace Windows for at least 2 decades now. I expect it to finally happen some time after we get 'too cheap to meter' fusion power.
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bryanlarsen • today at 1:39 AM
Aside: "too cheap to meter" got killed by inexpensive metering more than anything else. Metering used to be expensive, but computers have made it trivial.
wffurr • yesterday at 10:24 PM
SPARC is scheduled to start operations in 2026, with the goal of demonstrating net power in 2027.
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I shitposted about the ‘year of the Linux desktop’ for most of my teenage and adult life only to dual boot Linux for a bit as an experiment a year or two ago and have ~never booted in to Windows for anything other than games with anticheat since.
It’s more a case of Windows getting significantly worse and feeling like malware than Linux desktop being THAT much better than the last time I tried it, but between proton and maybe 95%+ of my work being in a browser window or browser window (Electron) these days, I basically never run in to compatibility issues and never have Candy Crush advertised to me.