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The meme will no longer be a dream.
TL;DR: 2026 is going to be the year of the Linux desktop for me. I haven’t booted Windows on my tower for over 3 months and I’m starting to realize that it’s not worth wasting space on. My plan is to integrate my three SSDs and convert them all to btrFS drives on Fedora.
I’ve been just tolerating Windows 11 for some time but recently it’s gotten to the point where it’s absolutely unbearable. Somehow Linux on the desktop has become so much better without doing anything different. Microsoft has managed to actively destroy the desktop experience through years of active neglect and malice towards its users. They’ve managed to take some of their most revolutionary technological innovations (the hybrid design of the NT kernel allowing it to recompile drivers, NTFS, REFS, WSL, Hyper-V, etc.) then create Start menus made with React Native, Control-Alt-Delete menus that are really just webviews, and force CoPilot down everyone’s throats to the point where I’m mistaken for handheld gaming. Got stuck in Copilot on PC and had to hard reboot the device to get out of it. It’s as if Microsoft’s internal teams had spent decades sniping at each other with predictable results.
To be honest, I have a lot. I’m going with Fedora on my tower and Baseite (or SteamOS) on my handheld.
I think Linux on the desktop is now ready for the masses, not least because it has progressed very fast. It is designed for use by the general public because Windows has been actively broken to the point that continuing to use it is an active harm to user experience and stability. Not to mention the price of RAM lately, you need every gigabyte you can get and desktop Linux lets you waste less of it on useless crap that very few people actually want.
At least, when something goes wrong on Linux you have log messages that can tell you what went wrong so you can find it.
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