I’m calling it 🙌

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    6 hours ago

    I mean its free. Installer are incredible easy. Steam says 90% of games are compatible. Libreoffice has all the features.

    The last straw are manufactures delivering hardware with M$ bullshit preinstalled.

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      6 hours ago

      Yeah, that’s not a straw, though. It’s like a redwood. A forest of redwoods.

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      You can technically buy a Chromebook instead. Apparently they kick up a real fuss if you try to install your own OS on it though, Not that I’ve tried.

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        I got GalliumOS onto an old chromebook last year. It was a bit of a fight and there are a couple parts if you mess up it’s possible to brick it entirely. Gallium was specifically for chromebooks, it’s been discontinued last I knew, and getting a different os in there sounds even more painful to me… But yeah you can cram Linux into one!

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      You can actually buy Linux computers from dell and Lenovo and they’re even cheaper because you don’t pay for the Microsoft license

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    Linux gaming also taking off. New Jolla phone on the way. Valve is also being helpful. On top of that the ‘Buy European’ movement also comes at the right time.

    I dare to say it’s looking pretty good

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      gotta laugh at people falling for the jolla scam again. i mean it sounds too good to be true and look at what they did last time

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    Linux is that feeling of your computer not becoming worse every year. Windows and mac users dont know what that is.

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    It is 2010. It is the year of the Linux desktop.

    It is 2018. It is the year of the Linux desktop.

    It is 2026. It is the year of the Linux desktop.

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    5 hours ago

    That was the free space on my 2026 bingo card!

    And my 2025 one.

    And the last ten years’ ones.

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    I’ll be trying to contribute to that!

    Already hit a difficulty since my workplace uses Microsoft for everything and the admins lock out third party stuff. I guess I can access files on outlook and OneDrive via browser based options but God they’re awful.

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    Gaming is the best commercial inroad I’ve seen, and exploding.

    But I think the “kernel anticheat” thing is going to be a hard wall until Valve works it out. Unfortunately, big OEMs don’t want to ship a “gaming PC” that can’t run Fortnite.