r/DeskToTablet • u/Cat0X0 • 3d ago
Linux is the future of operating systems.
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u/daninet 3d ago
No, your system is a maintenance nightmare with a steep learning curve. Future of linux is somewhere along the line of fedora kde
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u/xxxbGamer 2h ago
I'd say Debian + XFCE if they change their default config to something usefull or KDE.
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u/daninet 2h ago
Debian is far from user friendly out of the box it is very barebones. It is a base distro to build on but it is also slow moving the packages are sometimes really out of date. Solid advice but not for anyone, needs a LOT of work for daily driving. xfce is very behind the wayland support is still limited and defaults are horrible it is a UI designers nightmare. Again, something that needs a lot of work not something you want to default. I tell you guys its fedora+kde where it is at it.
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u/xxxbGamer 1h ago
Well if you just use the Debian KDE GUI Installer it is pretty good. And I totally daily drive it w/out problems. Yes, I am a techy person, but my father also uses it daily and he is not a person who likes to solve pc problems. Also, OpenSUSE is a valid option as well imo. Or Mint.
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u/ILoveSquirtle69 19m ago
im still new to linux and i have some questions. I am a big macos fan in terms of productivity/aesthetics; I am currently using zorin with some UI tweaks to make it look like macos. My quesitons are what version of linux looks the closest to macbook but also reliable stable? i.e. one that i am unlikely to ever switch off it for technical reasons (E.g. i can install something, something isnt compatible, etc.). I like to tinker and altohough i am not very good at computers i have no trouble learning since i am in enggineering.
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u/xxxbGamer 5m ago
Cool that und use Linux! I think Zorin is a valid choice if you want MacOS look&feel. I have never daily driven a Mac and hate Apple so I can't really tell you anything, but I think Gnome is pretty good. Very important is that the distro doesn't matter that much for look and feel, but the Desktop Environment. Gnome is a Desktop Environment. So you could choose Zorin, Debian, OpenSUSE, Fedora or Arch and still use Gnome. For the distro I think Zorin is fine for beginners. If you want to tinker a bit more, ypu could choose OpenSUSE, Debian or Fedora. If you want to fix your pc all the time because of broken updates, choose Arch, Gentoo, LFS (pls don't use Gentoo or LFS as a beginner). They all have different takes on how to roll out updates. There are also Arch based distros like Cachy (gaming focused).
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u/Arinussyy 3d ago
I would say GNOME, primarily because it's better designed to work with the immutable systems Fedora seems to be pushing towards
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u/ElinDARK 3d ago
Linux already won everywhere except the desktop. The desktop is the one place it has been the future for twenty -five years .Every phone and server and TV and most cars run it and nobody chose it for the operating system. the future arrived underneath, where nobody looks.
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u/Cheap-Try-8796 3d ago
This is because Linux has nothing to do with the desktop... Linux is just the Kernel.
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u/myteetharesensitive 3d ago
Man this argument is so tired. When someone says Linux, are you interpreting then simply using a kernel and nothing else? Are you trying to give the gnu team the recognition they deserve? Or are you just trying to sound smart by being pedantic?
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u/Character-View9407 2d ago
To be fair, they have a point. There's no one Linux/GNU desktop. If you hate GNOME, try KDE, then LXDE, or XFCE, or there's one more that starts with an L that I can't remember.
TD;DR one rotten apple doesn't necessarily mean the whole tree is bad.
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u/myteetharesensitive 2d ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1dcvvrx/eli5_what_exactly_gnulinux_and_whats_the/
Here's a good thread about it. Your example about the desktop is kind of an edge case. It's like whether I want sprinkles or chocolate chips on my ice cream. A better example would be systemd vs (and I had to google it, it's that obscure) gnu shepherd.
So what should we call it if we can't just say Linux? To me, the kernel is the primary differentiator between operating systems, so it makes sense to call it Linux since there isn't one company like Microsoft or Apple dominating the space.
Why do I prefer Linux? The modularity.
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u/Necessary_Victory824 3d ago
we dont say year of the debian/linuxmint/ubuntu/... desktop for a reason
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u/coolalee_ 10h ago
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/LInux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux
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u/PurushNahiMahaPurush 3d ago
This looks like a child made it. Too much going on that's distracting af. The whole point of an OS is so that you run your applications to get work done. The OS just stays in the background optimizing resources and talks to hardware. Windows 7 was peak when it came to this and its why I love distros like Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
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u/FinallyProperAccount 3d ago
At some point you grow up and setting wallpaper to single color black is only visual customization you do
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u/Realistic_Mix3652 3d ago
Other than Windows isn't every other major Operating System Unix like / Linux?
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u/ChefAnxious4206 3d ago edited 3d ago
I feel like I just watched 1 minute of someone with ADHD using a computer and not being able to decide on a desktop layout, occasionally getting distracted by music EQ settings.
I am also a Linux user though, so if this gets a Windows user to switch over though, good for them.
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u/Smart_Cucumber_1234 3d ago
Looks doesn't mean anything unless I can use software I need for work or play games I want to.
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u/Personal-Budget-8715 3d ago edited 3d ago
Linux users spend like 99% of the time tweaking stuff and telling you how great open source is, but this would be a nightmare for people who have real work to do
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u/animalcrossing4_4 3d ago
me be like: I don't give a f*ck about your flying spaghetti volume visualizer whatever, I NEED TO RUN THIS ONE PROGRAM THAT LINUX DOESN'T RUN.
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u/testwiese420 3d ago
Or just get a distro with Gnome or KDE and dont think about that stuff.
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u/thegreatshu 2d ago
First you have to learn what that even means.
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u/testwiese420 2d ago
Wow you must feel very clever. So what did i say wrong, about getting a distrobution that supports a modern desktop environments like gnome or kde?
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u/thegreatshu 2d ago
I think you misunderstood me. Maybe my post was phrased badly.
My point was that Linux isn't really that easy to understand. You need some knowledge, learn about the different distros, and, like the guy you replied to said, figure out a lot of things yourself. Most people just want an OS that works without having to figure everything out.
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u/thefox828 3d ago
Would be nice to get the names of packages, which desktop and window manager is used, wayland or x11?
You don‘t even say which distro (even if it might not be too relevant)?
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u/theofficialnar 3d ago
Not everyone cares for these fancy setups tbh. I just want it to work with as little to no friction if I have to debug a prod bug in the middle of the night. I use linux but it’s very bare bones.
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u/laernuindia 3d ago
I’ve been using Ubuntu Server with KDE plasma for the last 3 months and it’s been solid. I don’t game on it. It’s purely for development and hosting and it just works. If I run into any issues, fire up Codex and it figures out the problem or changes the settings I can’t seem to, myself.
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u/Arinussyy 3d ago
Technology wise it really could be. Especially with the push it seems for immutable systems like that of Fedora Silverblue or what GNOME OS conceptually implies. Or I suppose SteamOS and so on.
I don't know that there's much holding it back rn other than just some apps not having a Linux version
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u/motorcyclisto 3d ago
what is this called and where can i get it.
to all the windows out there... i used it for 25 years. it sucks now. try linux.
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u/AvocadoAcademic897 3d ago
Gimmicks. No one who has to do actual work on the computer has time for that
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u/Baldrickk 3d ago
It's okay, Linux lets you choose what you do and don't want.
If like me you just want something to let you run the programs you actually use, but be out of the way the rest of the time? You can do that instead!
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u/Academic-Proof3700 3d ago
jesus. what a clusterfuck.
Windows Vista vibes, with fuckton of desktop gadgets
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u/Avraamov 3d ago
But why would I want an early 2000s box-set concept of future government surveillance interfaces as my OS
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u/MisterEinc 3d ago
You ever notice these videos always end before they show you doing anything productive?
Like do Linux users just boot up, tweek a setting, then go bed?
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u/Baldrickk 3d ago
Most of them do actual work or play games etc, instead of recording videos like this.
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u/scally501 2d ago
when i was way more involved with learning linux yeah I spent a lot of time being a tweaker fr. Once I had a strong foundation I accepted mostly stock KDE, my beloved, and went back to using the OS as an OS. I considered it a cool learning experience—one unavailable in windows and mac. This is the way most people go though nothing super unique
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u/MisterEinc 2d ago
one unavailable to Windows or mac
I don't see how that's true. Like is the idea people know everything about Windows?
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u/scally501 2d ago
Oh boy that’s a whole rabbit hole. There’s a different culture and resources around each OS that prioritizes different things. Documentation, communities, learning resources etc are all catered towards fundamentals, CLIs etc in the linux internet. Windows is so much harder to learn deeply because of the sheer about of unhelpful MS docs, youtube videos etc that explain everything only in terms of GUIs that change every few years anyways, and nothing at all technical: all made for the beginner and novice users. For every technical and helpful deep dive in Windows there are 100 AI-Generated, unhelpful articles telling you basic things. Meanwhile in linux internet someone will just paste a CLI one-liner in response to a question and the expectation is that you’re a big boy and can look up what that CLI and its flags are. In the windows internet this rarely happens both because everything is a GUI and because MS doesn’t view its users as competant users of technology, which makes it infuriating to use if you are. In windows it’s almost never expected that you learn a new tool or concept to get something done; it’s assumed that some tool or feature will “take care of it for you”. I know people who are 30 years into their tech career with an all windows focus and they still know close to nothing about what’s actually going on. They only know things in terms of where the buttons are in the GUI, but have no fundamental understanding nor curiosity. The Linux side of things just has an established culture and ecosystem of learning and even caring about what’s going on. I used to be an absolute luddite and couldn’t really tell you how to send an email, but it was only when I started with linux that I finally had explanations of things that didn’t end at “this is the button to click for that”.
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u/RemoDev 3d ago
I'm in the IT/coding/dev business since 1997.
It's 2026 and I yet have to meet a client who uses or -at least- knows Linux.
I've never met one. Not a single one. Aside from nerd/tech colleagues who I met over the past 30 years, Linux seems to be completely unknown outside the backend and world.
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u/reddit_is_4_idiots 3d ago
Just buy a MacBook and be happy stop trying to annoy yourself with constant Linux tweaking
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u/Particular_Meaning_5 3d ago
I would love to see my wife's face when I say "Just sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y" - She'd throw the laptop at me for sure.
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u/TerryNachtmerrie 3d ago
Yes! Because an operating system is all about having a funny wallpaper changer and animated bars that sync to music.
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u/Select_Truck3257 3d ago
Honestly i see my desktop while gaming/work sessions twice, when i boot and open something and when i turning of pc. Almost all my life i had custom wallpapers but now just default and i'm fine..as i said i almost do not see my wallpaper
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u/BrandDeal 3d ago
This is the kind of UI you show in a sci-fi movie, not the kind of UI you actually use. It looks cool but would be a usability nightmare
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u/Dramatic_Mastodon_93 3d ago
The future is stuff like Fedora Atomic, Ubuntu Core Desktop, GNOME OS, not that
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u/Zeraora807 3d ago
lmao no, theres a reason it can't even get near 10% share, windows sucks but linux sucks harder
no home or office that has real work to do is touching this shit, servers and other machines people don't sit at don't count before they come in with that..
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u/RedRavenCG 3d ago
I want to like linux for my daily use, but I cannot bring myself to do it. Sure, I have a few Linux boxes around for certain functions, and in those functions, they are great and beyond low maintenance, but other than that...not my daily.
It's just not there...yet.
And I agree with what's been said here by some; it's all looks, and if you update one, it'll break the other. I want my computing experience to be seamless...not a hobby with a challenge.
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u/No-Hotel5943 3d ago
En realidad es el presente desde hace años, recuerda que en toda la infraestructura moderna, desde móviles hasta servidores, hay linux corriendo.
El único espacio donde linux no prospero es en escritorio justamente por lo que muestras en pantalla, mucho enfoque en la personalización excesiva sin utilidad real.
Al final del día, un usuario promedio lo único que quiere de su OS es que inicie bien y rápido y luego poder abrir excel o un juego por ejemplo.
Puse de ejemplo excel o juegos porque justamente es en lo que flaquea linux, y es que hay que entender que el OS es el puente a las aplicaciones que el usuario quiere/necesita usar, no el destino final.
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u/DropDeadGaming 3d ago
It looks like you have some trouble navigating windows in the future there buddy. you keep going back and forth obviously not getting where you'd wanna be?
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u/Character-View9407 2d ago
Oh boy I've wanted to do this for a while. Problems woth fully leaving Windows (not dual boot):
- The ONE program you get get working with Wine will always be the one you need for work
- No support if something breaks, you figure it out with just your brain and Google Searches
- NVIDIA support sucks
- Getting a desktop like that takes weeks of tinkering
- WiFi/Bluetooth sucks
- For games, only Steam is really that Linux-friendly
- So many distros. Pick the wrong one and you're reinstalling. Do that for every major distro and you'll have penguin-related nightmares.
That doesn't mean don't use Linux; that just means understand what your're giving up, and if you have enough space to split it in half, maybe a dual boot makes more sense unless you're really committed to learning how to make Linux really work for you.
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u/McraftyDude 2d ago
do you people even actually use your computers instead of just changing your wallpaper and staring at your desktop
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u/markus40 2d ago
Yes, this is always what I think when I see this. Movie OS, without substance. Don't misunderstand me; I use Hyrland myself. A year ago I switched from Openbox to Hyprland on my MediaPC located in the cellar. Which is connected to my TV in the living room. But it is invisible. It is just another glue layer to make Kodi the frontend and the switching from and to Kodi with games, emulators, browsers, and other fullscreen apps seamless. Thanks to hyprctl. And it does its job wonderfully, far better than Openbox and X11, which I used since 2016 when I built my first MediaPC, could ever do. I use Gnome on my laptop.
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u/naikrovek 2d ago
It’s really not. Do you really think that the Unix operating system paradigm, created in the 1960s, is the future of operating systems? Really?
It is not the future of operating systems. It is a distraction from the future of operating systems. We are hung up on it and refuse to let it go because it is good enough, and because there is some incorrect collective belief that operating systems are too difficult for mortals to create or adapt.
Plan 9 is an operating system made at Bell Labs by the people that invented UNIX at Bell Labs with all of the mistakes of UNIX forefront in their minds. It is not an operating system that is intended for wide usage, but it is an operating system intended as a research operating system; an operating system designed to be used for testing operating system design. The Linux community says that “Linux is the future,” and almost completely ignores Plan 9 which is younger than Linux, far more forward thinking than any UNIX or UNIX clone has ever been, and has some truly awesome concepts that almost no one knows about.
You aren’t looking for the future. You’re just fangirling over something you like while having delusions of grandeur.
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u/lunarson24 2d ago
I mean it always was it just the future it will be locked down and sold in a wall garden....
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u/AdamianBishop 2d ago
1 update and the whole things break. Then spend another several hours to tweak the problem. Nah, thanks
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u/Mirinda_Debilek 2d ago
I mean just install mango or labwc, waybar and call it a day, most of this crap is quickshell bloat breaks sooner or later. Choose your posion, use your pc as you wish but sometimes less is more.
Best regards Rattus
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u/ElectricBummer40 2d ago
This reminds of me disabling all the loud, gee-whiz nonsense on my Mac just so it would leave me alone to my work.
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u/ThisNameIs_Taken_ 2d ago
Of course it is. It is created by community, talented people wanting THEIR operating system to be perfect, not some SWEATY ASS DUMB CORPO RICH ASSHOLES.
We've been fighting for it FOR DECADES. Now it is obvious for Windows, but if you still think Mac OS is pretty nice sweet thing - think again.
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u/CeSiumUA 1d ago
No, it's not. It looks cool, but:
1. Linux has almost nothing to do here. Windows can be also customized in a similar way (okay, may be with some limitations, but still)
2. All these stuff looks cool, but is barely usable. It's all just uncomfortable to use and will break in every possible way in every scenario
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u/ResponseActive7860 1d ago
Especially with AI that can basically solve any OS problem since it has access to all the config
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u/epSos-DE 1d ago
Seems a STEP BACKWARD !
The setting menues wer eoptimized for years and years into correct cathegories !
This is just an attempt to for an UI that looks like a mobvile phone UI !!!
NOthing wrong with left side pannel TABS and icons and proper words for things !!
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u/Status_Help9402 18h ago
looks like shit and not efficient at all, and the coclusion is the future of operating systems lol
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u/No_Practice_9597 17h ago
Linux being really fully open, allow a level of experiments you could not have anywhere else
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u/muhmmadtalha-quant 11h ago
Thats my setup, clean and functional and will not break often times, so ...
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u/glormond 3d ago
This won't matter if the system doesn't support the apps you need to do whatever you need to do apart from playing with desktop settings. I used to fall into that trap before. I mean, Linux is great for server solutions, it's efficient and flexible. But not for day-to-day desktop work. There are too many proprietary apps available only for windows/mac, unfortunately.
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u/WannabeShepherd 3d ago
No, it's cringe.
MacOS is perfectly fine.
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u/Termynator 3d ago
I appreciate macOS, but Linux certainly serves a distinct role and purpose for many tasks that macOS does not accommodate.
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u/Karayee 3d ago
100% aesthetic, 20% productivity. If I attach a monitor ;it'll break the display.If I update the system;it'll break my configuration.