Linux on the desktop in 2024

Is Linux ready for the desktop in 2024? I believe it is! It does depend on what workflows you want it to support however. In this video I talk about my experience so far and what it was I needed help with from Linux as well as how it's stood up so far.

[oreonproject]

Welcome to Linux! You've made a great decision of trying Linux and that just shows that you care about not only yourself, but open source technologies too. In other words, great video!

[MegaManNeo]

Linux for casual desktop use is fine for long, despite what _everyone_ says.
Valve is the company that pushes desktop Linux currently the most, so as a gaming person, I quite happy.

[Sonic]

I just switched back to Arch on my main rig about three weeks ago. I go back and forth on Linux, but the changes Microsoft wants to implement rub me the wrong way.

[JohnCastleSmokeless]

For me, the push away from Windows has to do with Microsoft turning their telemetry schemes into dependencies. For example, I just discovered that terminating the "MSEdge WebView2" process now disables some of the keys on my keyboard (chiefly F5, which I use to refresh web pages and Windows Explorer windows). Then it comes out that the Recall "Feature" is also a dependency which, if you disable it, breaks Windows Explorer even harder.

Then realize that _only Windows_ has WebView2 as a dependency; Microsoft is baking their spyware into the OS -- so, nope. No more Windows.

[demanuDJ]

I'm also DevOps Engineer and I love gaming after hours and only daily driver is OpenSuse Tumbleweed. I cannot imagine swiching to any other OS than Linux

[KM-svdh]

Welcone abroad, man. i wish you an enjoyable linux journey

[pmcomputing]

Ive been using plasma for a VERY LONG time, huge fan. Im gaming on an RTX 4080 and OpenSuse is my primary daily driver gaming OS with WIndows11 as a backup for the few mods and games that don't work on Linux. Very happy with the current state on linux, its come a VERY long way, I have a Valve Index and I play a LOT of VR, steamVR used to be sketchy on LInux, some apps would work, others not, now most of my VR games are playable on Linux and that includes the high end ones like Hubris and Halflife Alyx.. I also play Star citizen on Linux and it just works.

[bitterseeds]

People say Arch is hard. I stayed away from it for years .. until about 9 months ago. I took the plunge and I guess it's having used Linux since the mid-90s and being an SRE ... I honestly found it easy and it's been very performant. I just got things the way I wanted them and committed the files to git. I don't tweak things, compile kernels weekly or all the other things folks who've run Linux for a week as a challenge seem to think is required.

I don't evangelize Linux ... too old and lazy AF to do that. BUT neither will I take the ramblings of folks as gospel. Is Linux good for the masses? Maybe. I think once Nvidia gets their sh** together and makes things as easy as AMD does, it's probably. I know that KDE 6.x is absolutely ready.

[Toutvids]

You and I have very similar systems. Same GPU but I have a 5900X CPU. I've used Kubuntu a lot and it was my go to for a long time. But lately I am on Nobara because I game a lot and it has a bunch of settings preconfigured the way I like it. Star Citizen, for example works flawless on this system. Nobara is more bleeding edge than Ubuntu variants are. Once Windows 10 goes EOL I will be Linux full time again. I too have been using Linux off and off since the old Mandrake Linux days.

If I could go back to Windows XP, I would. Those were the peak Windows days for me.

[CommanderBeefDev]

try this one, built arch from scratch and went through kde, xfce and now gnome before ff16 updated and fixed its broken cutscenes lmao, 35th time was the charm just use proton experimental nothing else works

[Foxy-d]

The anti cheat thing is just so annoying. I still have a windows install because of that one game I love to play online uses anti cheat.
I've even managed to get my favourite apps (affinity suite) working on my Mint system.

[jmacdono]

I have an Asus Xonar Essence STX sound card, and in Windows, I always had to download drivers and install them manually for the card to be even recognized by Windows. And this has been from Windows 7 until now. But there is a known issue with the drivers for this Xonar card that occasionally, playing a streaming video file will result in a horrible screeching sound that can definitely damage your ears (if you're wearing headphones), and / or your speakers. It is so loud and unsettling, and I've been reading different message boards for years to find someone who has resolved the issue. No one has yet. And the issue also exists with Asus' new Xonar Essence STX II card. Keep in mind, these are $200+ audio cards. And are very good!!

Meanwhile, in EVERY Linux distro I have run, it always has the drivers for this card, and that horrible screeching issue does not exist at all ever. Guess which OS I am using?

[Bob-of-Zoid]

Played with Linux since 95, full blown Linux exclusive user since 2009! Ditched Windows, and all of Microsoft including my hotmail account that was not owned by Microsoft when I got it in 95, most of google and others too, and have been happy as a bug in a rug with Arch Linux with the KDE Plasma DE!

Now I am not a gamer and therefor have nothing to say about that, other than that some of the graphics processing innovation stemming from it has helped other apps too I do use.

[YouHaveTrouble]

Almost 3 years microsoft free here!
Never looked back since. Now if there are issues, they're usually caused by me, and even if I mess up bad, there's always googlable error instead of random numbers to look up that all end up on the same resolution of "just reinstall lol".

[skorne]

Its not quite so smooth on Nvidia, Kubuntu is not the ideal choice because you'll be better off with KDE 6.1 or later and need to install nvidia drivers more up to date than the Ubuntu ones. At least if you want to use Wayland. A Fedora or Arch based distro works better in this case.

[tohur]

Only Ai I want on my desktop is Ai I CONTROL. I like AI but run my own as mainly use it for Home assistant, as I am NOT allowing these megacorps to train their models off my data directly. been on Linux daily without windows for a year

[the-unknown-hour]

I use Kubuntu or Ubuntu mate for HTCP. Linux Mint for gaming and production

[matthewevangelista]

I wish more control engineers would point out the elephant for us and that is there is almost no compatibility for our software on Linux. I typically run Unitronics VisiLogic, UniLogic and U90 Series IDE. Now I have been playing with Arduino's PLC IDE. None of these have worked for me on Linux. All my C++ programming I do on my Linux machine but unfortunately at this time I am bound to Microsoft for the foreseeable future. I truly wish someone could either find a way to run these programs or someone had a compatibility layer that would work. I know many engineers who would fully transition in an instant if it wasn't for this. The gaming community is starting to get aid on their transition to Linux with the help of Steam and Proton compatibility layer. We industrial automation guys need to start voicing this more and perhaps we may start being heard. If any Linux Gurus out there can make the mentioned programs work, please please please let me know!

[TheLotw]

If you dont need anything special OBS is overkill and not the greatest. GPU Screen Recorder works great and with any GPU and gives you hardware recording.

[michadybczak]

I've been using Linux since 10 years now. I use Windows only on work computers where company's apps require Windows to run. Managing files is so much better on Linux, so now, I do the necessary work in Windows and then switch to my personal, Linux laptop to do the file management work. Doing the same on Windows would be tedious, some things even impossible. The things I miss is the access to installed MS Office, as online version is too primitive. Libre Office is fine and does the job but it's not as advanced as MS Office.