heard it's the year of linux on the desktop 2026

[silvermoon82@wandering.shop]

@babe
Let's consult the Linux Zodiac:

[hamato@mastodon.social]

@babe My wife, to whom (and I quote) "computers are the nonsense with which my husband wastes his time at work" uses Linux on her notebook since at least 2003 or so. First Mandrake/Mandriva, then Ubuntu and maybe the last five years or so she's on Mint. Yes, I installed those once, but I just told her to click "yes" whenever it asks about updates and she's been just using her machines ever since. (Browsing, email, office.)

Windows 11 has sent my kids to Linux, too, because gaming works now. 🥰

[forbearance@mastodon.xyz]

@babe [steam deck noises]

[serebit@floss.social]

@babe Year of the Linux VR headset and Linux cube

[benpocalypse@mastodon.social]

@babe I switched my 70 year old mother to Linux when Windows 10 went EOL, and she's been fine. This is the year.

[mindshoot@mastodon.xyz]

@babe my 89yo father in law has been running Ubuntu for many years. I gave him a live CD to get some stuff off his broken laptop, and apparently he liked it so just went ahead and installed it for himself...

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@babe I mean, I'd argue it was last year, but I'm probably taking the meme too seriously again.

[stevejb@beige.party]

@babe No crickets here. Wait, let me check my speaker mute. No, we're good. I've lived on Linux since 1996.

[babe@glitterkitten.co.uk]

I'm watching @feff and @JenJen try to install linux mint on an old laptop and it's in to about hour 4 I think? so we will try again in year 2027

[not_a_label@toot.lgbt]

@babe @feff @JenJen I've been here from the beginning and that is the most evil cursed laptop I've ever seen! If I was @feff I'd have resorted to rum and violence by now!

[dlakelan@mastodon.sdf.org]

@babe
wow. thats impressive dedication. What were the big hangups? I'm too deep into Linux admin to know what causes trouble, its useful to see what goes wrong though.
@feff @JenJen

[hazelnot@sunbeam.city]

@Forbearance @babe that's a Linux *handheld* ackhshually

[schratze@todon.nl]

@hazelnot @Forbearance @babe handholding? 😳 on linux? 😳

[feff@comicscamp.club]

@dlakelan @babe @JenJen
Likely a corrupted iso from me accidentally pulling out the drive too early one too many times. I was somewhat glad for putting UwUntu on as a joke

[feff@comicscamp.club]

@not_a_label @babe @JenJen
I did resort to actually drinking the rum at one point (probably around the "let's see if UwUntu works I don't care anymore" time)

[filobus@sociale.network]

@babe It's the year of Linux on smartphone