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    10 hours ago

    I really hope that people will make the transition instead of just buying new… Linux is great - and more users will equal more support for it.

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    A big factor in Europe right now is a shifting relationship with the US.

    Companies, governments, and individuals have some incentive to find alternatives to big US tech. For operating systems, Linux is really the only option.

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    11 hours ago

    Ok is what is the “META” answer to grandma’s laptop is going to get borked. Put this USB stick in her laptop and press next a bunch of times and she can keep using it. You have 5 lines of text to explain this solution.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      I think the trick has to be that somebody who has a bit of technical skill sets the laptop up initially. I did this for my mom a while back, and once I set it up once, it just worked from there on. Non technical users tend to have a fairly small set of things they need to do like check email, browser the web, and play media. Once that’s working, they never need to change anything. In fact, they don’t want to change anything because they get used to the workflow, and they’re comfortable.

      It would be great if people set up community centres where people can bring their old laptops, and somebody switches them over to Linux for them.

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        Ok, what I am hearing is Nixos but with an installer like this

        Rufus ISO to usb stick stick usb stick into computer press magical button to boot usb <-- this should be the most difficult part of the process Screen appears, least amount of text possible Ask only the important questions, on a single screen

        then one last big scary page “this will erase everything on your computer”

        Check “I understand” then press"ERASE BUTTON" (or cancel and reboots)

        then it reboots and everything your average grandmother needs right there a google button an office button and that’s pretty much it

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    The numbers suggest that 2025 could be a turning point for Linux on desktop computers

    Ah yes, the year of the Linux desktop

    (in all seriousness, this is looking really good, my main hope from all this is that hardware manufacturers step up their FOSS drivers game)

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        11 hours ago

        Most consumer hardware on earth does already (Android phones). The problem is those drivers are usually proprietary bullshit that’s very difficult to integrate with anything but OEMs kernel fork & Android version. Unfortunately I don’t really foresee that changing in the near future, hopefully if Linux becomes more mainstream, Linux phones become too and then we get some progress.

        And for laptops/desktops, I think the situation is pretty good already as well. Many mainstream OEMs have an option with Linux pre-installed now, and the drivers there are mostly FOSS. I’m hoping that the problematic part vendors e.g. NVidia and Broadcom step up and provide sources for their drivers - otherwise they will continue to be a buggy mess that most people hate.

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          Nvidia recently started NVK for Turing and newer and even more recently it was made conformant going back to Maxwell, but that still doesn’t give me a lot of hope for everything between Maxwell 1 (so basically just the GTX 750/750Ti for desktop Maxwell 1 cards) and Turing after driver version 580.

          Also, Nouveau works for Maxwell 1 and earlier but ymmv with that stack, and it’s still not like Mesa RADV and AMDGPU for Radeon cards going back to GCN1.