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First RCS now this, today has been wild

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[–] Djtecha@lemm.ee 48 points 10 months ago (31 children)

Once steam covers 90% of games windows becomes irrelevant.

[–] atthecoast@feddit.nl 42 points 10 months ago (12 children)

So what you’re saying is, 2024 will be the year of Linux on the desktop?

[–] HW07@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I think we need rock-solid Wayland before we can expect TYLD. So I'm feeling 2026 minimum, then add a couple for some padding; so 2028 realistically. Think of how far we've come in 5 years, then imagine 5 years more.

If Nvidia's consumer GPU market share dropped a bit too, that'd help.

[–] frostinger@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Why do you think that Wayland is necessary for adoption? In my opinion it is the missing hardware drivers, compatability issues and "getting your hands dirty" while constantly tweaking stuff. Yeah it got better over the years, but most people want things to just work.

[–] HW07@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Wayland is necessary because Wayland will be necessary in the near future, if it was next year then that would put a lot of people who don't know about X.Org and Wayland through a major shift which could rock-the-boat a bit too much and cause them to go back to Windows for the "just works" experience.

[–] Djtecha@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Look, I just finally tried steam on Linux and the game booted up. I am absolutely amazed as I thought I'd never see that day. Also windows is somehow just getting worse and worse. It's like they just want an entire ad platform. They lost me at this point. I have 0 need for any ms products again and that's a great feeling.

[–] frostinger@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

but WHY is it necessary??

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