Report: Linux was on 6.34 percent of computers last month if you count ChromeOS.

I know this might be a couple months old, but I didn’t know we already passed 4%.

  • rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com
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    4 months ago

    I’ve had LMDE on a USB stick for a few months now, waiting for the right time to boot it up on my wife’s PC, and she finally agreed to try it tonight. Cross your fingers, boys; we may soon have another convert.

    • Anony Moose@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      What’s your review of LMDE over Debian? I recently took the Linux desktop jump recently and started with Linux Mint.

      I really didn’t like the Mint desktop as it seemed very dated, so I’ve switched to Debian/KDE. It was only much later that I realized how easy it would have been to just customize my window manager instead of getting a different distro. Having said that, I’m really digging Debian in spite of Nvidia issues being a headache, and Debian’s glacial update pace making me look longingly at Arch.

      • CraigeryTheKid@lemm.eeEnglish
        10·
        4 months ago

        I also didn’t like the way Mint looked/felt, even though I’m aware of its popularity and good reputation.

        I’m on Pop!_OS which is mostly a GNOME desktop, but they do add [remove] features and it’s very smooth and clean. I guess this is one of the miracles of “linux” where we can all be using “linux” but with 1500 different varieties.

        • Anony Moose@lemmy.caEnglish
          6·
          4 months ago

          Yeah, I’ve heard really good things about Pop!_OS, especially for Windows migrants.

          • CraigeryTheKid@lemm.eeEnglish
            6·
            4 months ago

            Funny enough, if you “need it to look like windows 7” Mint looks pretty close.

            but yes, prior to October my house was 5 windows PCs. A couple weeks ago it was officially 5 Pop machines. No prior Linux experience, except for copy-paste setup of a pihole.

            • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              4 months ago

              Or “here’s what Win 10 would look like if Microsoft hadn’t had the tablet-based stroke that was Win 8.” Is how I’d describe Cinnamon.

              The default themes are a little bit dated; I use a darker kind of black transparent theme I got from gnome-look.org with a blue/cyan kind of scheme and it looks pretty up to date.

      • rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com
        4·
        4 months ago

        I like Debian a lot, and Mint seems fine too, but I don’t like the styling, or Cinnamon really. I use Fluxbox (WM only, no DE) with a bunch of tiny customizations.

        The main reason I picked it is that I like to tinker and she doesn’t, so I think that Cinnamon will be the easiest for her coming from Windows 10.

        We both have AMD GPUs (and she has a AMD CPU too) so I haven’t had to deal with Nvidia headaches.

        I like the glacial updates so things don’t break as easily. I don’t want to spend hours fixing a system (hers or mine tbh) unless I have to. For anything that I need the latest features for, there’s usually a repo I can add to Aptitude or a Flatpak.

        • Anony Moose@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          Yeah, the rock-solid stability of Debian stable is definitely a huge plus. I thought I would be okay with less frequent updates, but I changed my mind when I realized cool updates like KDE 6 won’t make it to stable probably until next year T__T. Even Nvidia 555 drivers probably won’t even hit backports for a while. Clearly the responsible thing to do here is to add an Arch install alongside my Debian/W11 dual-boot 😛

          Not using a DE sounds intriguing, I might give that a try once I find my feet on desktop Linux. I’ve been around *nix systems most of my career, but I haven’t used a Linux desktop as a daily driver in like 15 years. It’s funny how much has changed, and how much hasn’t.

    • BCsven@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      My wife struggles with tech, she had such a hard time with windows, and the slowness of it was making her wxperience worse. I put GNOME DE on her old laptop, she can be autonomous now