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cma256today at 1:29 PM1 replyview on HN

I love the "year of the linux desktop" meme but even so I feel compelled to say it. Year of the Linux desktop?? You don't need a new machine if your new OS uses 1/4 of the resources.


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akazantsevtoday at 2:24 PM

Unlikely Linux will become mainstream until people stop saying "install Linux" and not a particular distro. I recently installed Ubuntu on a new laptop: something doesn't work because I need a more recent kernel, so... I installed the second "user-friendly" distro - Fedora. Scrolling is 10x faster in Chromium-based browsers, making it unusable. The fix - install KDE... Then I had to make hardware video acceleration work so that playback wouldn't drain the battery. That was a pain in the ass.

So, Linux won't consume LESS unless you spend your time configuring different stuff.

I can't imagine users want to mess with this instead of buying macs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/1qqyh2z/scro...

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