Awesome. KDE and GNOME had the resources to make a big push and fill in the missing gaps for themselves, but having smaller, more modular desktops also tackling a port, that’s really important for defining/extracting useful libraries and identifying potential shortcomings in the standards.
Keeping my fingers crossed for XFCE…🤞
“2024 will be another year in which ‘Linux on the desktop’ won’t happen.”
Edit: Guys I know. I run linux on my desktop too. I’m quoting the article.
Most devices people use for their daily “computing” run Linux (Android) or BSD (iOS) now.
The entire backend for the Microsoft infrastructure runs on Linux.Windows is really only still relevant on office and gaming PC’s.
Windows is really only still relevant on office and gaming PC’s.
Technically also Xbox but that’s about it.
PlayStation OrbisOS is a direct derivative off FreeBSD. Nintendo SwitchOS is derived from its homegrown 3DS OS with some FreeBSD code (network stack).
I know. That is why I quoted the article saying that.
Well, Linux is already on the desktop. I don’t know what the blog mean.
About Wayland, it still need time even if people says it’s ready and blabla, I even had issues with Flatpak+Wayland so… keep on X11 to make sure all works.
I mean, there’s some features now that get implemented on Wayland, which haven’t been properly implemented on X11 for many years, because it was just too much pain. For example, multi-touch gestures, and I believe also automatic screen rotation for tablets.
If you are on more traditional hardware, i.e. a desktop PC, then this will not be as relevant and X11 will probably continue to work fine, for the next few years.
But it should also be said that dipping your toes into Wayland is quite easy for users on e.g. KDE or GNOME. You just install the Wayland session, if it’s not already installed and then you can easily switch back and forth on the login screen.Some time ago I switched to Wayland running Hyprland on my laptop. It basically works but I don’t do much except using some web apps.
On my PC I also switched to Wayland recently, running labwc. While basic stuff works, a lot of my daily use case doesn’t.
On Wayland you can barely record your screen (doesn’t work for me at all with useless error message), let alone simultaneously recording multiple different windows and multiple different audio and video sources all going into different channels.
Also gaming (No Mans Sky on Steam): The Steam UI flickers like hell, and even games run extremely bad, low FPS, flickering of certain parts. Same for native games. Minetest is downright unusable due to extreme flickering of the whole window.
On X11: all of this works flawlessly and out of the box.
I don’t know about yours, but Linux is on MY desktop since ca. 2005.
It is on my computer too. I am quoting the article. They said something that is clearly factually incorrect, not something that I agree with.
No one who really cares about Linux ever cared for this shit.
“2024 will be another year in which ‘Linux on the desktop’ won’t happen.”
Nice.
