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2024: The Year Linux Dethrones Windows on the Desktop – Are You Ready?

  • NTSync coming in Kernel 6.11 for better Wine/Proton game performance and porting.
  • Wine-Wayland last 4/5 parts left to be merged before end of 2024
  • Wayland HDR/Game color protocol will be finished before end of 2024
  • Nvidia 555/560 will be out for a perfect no stutter Nvidia performance
  • KDE/Gnome reaching stability and usability with NO FKN ADS
  • VR being usable
  • More Wine development and more Games being ported
  • Better LibreOffice/Word compatibility
  • Windows 10 coming to EOL
  • Improved Linux simplicity and support
  • Web-native apps (Including Msft Office and Adobe)
  • .Net cross platform (in VSCode or Jetbrains Rider)

What else am I missing?

nossaquesapao ,

Better LibreOffice/Word compatibility

Was there any recent relevant developments in this area?

Successful_Try543 , (edited )

Skimming though the LibreOffice 24.2 release notes, this was the first thing I’ve encountered:

New line break algorithm for interoperability

Since 2013, the non-proprietary, metric-compatible alternative fonts are no longer guaranteed the same paragraph layout, because MS Word 2013 and later introduced a new default line breaking algorithm for justified text. To fix the lost interoperability, the same algorithm has been implemented in Writer to reduce spaces within justified lines by up to 20%. tdf#119908 blog post (László Németh, donor: NLnet).

And in 24.8:

Fixed an issue with shape positioning in DOCX import for RTL paragraphs (Miklos Vajna, Collabora) tdf#160833

As it is nice opening a document and having the line breaks and figures at the intended places, it can be concluded that there is noticeably development going on for compatibility between LO Writer and MS Word.

dephyre ,
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  • Nvidia 555/560 will be out for a perfect no stutter Nvidia performance

God I really hope that’ll be true.

thingsiplay ,

Most people don’t care. And that says someone who replaced his Windows XP when Vista was the newest shit on the market (I also had a Vista laptop back then). With every Windows version people argued and posted about The Year of Linux Desktop. If you are talking about number of users, then Linux on Desktop will not dethrone Windows in 2024. Most people don’t care or the switch is painful in many ways. Don’t get your hopes too high. My following argumentation is critical, but I am a Linux fanboy. Have that in mind.

KDE/Gnome reaching stability and usability

What exactly do you mean by that? KDE and Gnome reached usability long time ago. However thanks to Wayland the stability got a huge hit, plus KDE was always a bit wonky in regard that. But otherwise these are great desktops with good usability for a long time now. Way better than what Apple or Windows has to offer.

Windows 10 coming to EOL

This has never mattered. Most people just switch or buy next Windows version.

.Net cross platform (in VSCode or Jetbrains Rider)

This is not new in 2024, or did something happen here?

Better LibreOffice/Word compatibility

Better than what? Than the previous version? This is always the case and people don’t switch from Windows to Linux because of that. After all, the application is available on Windows too.

… will be … before end of 2024 …

Will be remain to be seen if this is true. If there is one thing I learned is, don’t trust estimation when software will be finished.

NTSync coming in Kernel 6.11 for better Wine/Proton game performance and porting.

This has no impact on Proton, but Wine as far as I understand. Proton already has an alternative that is similar to NTSync. So from performance standpoint, it has no impact on Steam games.

Successful_Try543 ,

Windows 10 coming to EOL

This has never mattered. Most people just switch or buy next Windows version.

Or keep on using Windows 10 and are happy not to be annoyed by updates any more.

Brickardo ,

For me, it’s the Windows AMD application for using FSR and other stuff of my graphics card. I’m not willing to give up to 20 FPS on a lower end card.

Gormadt ,
@Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Dethrone? Probably not.

Start taking up a noticeable share of the demographic of systems? Probably

Before this year is out I’m switching my systems to Linux and before Windows 10 EoL I’m having to switch some relatives to Linux because their systems can’t handle Windows 11 and I’m not going to buy them new systems.

DmMacniel ,

Full of optimism. But why those points that relate not in the slightest to the layman? Also sources for half of your points?

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Dethrones? No. Not in the sense it will overtake Windows in numbers.

Grows its gamer ‘market share’? Absolutely.

helenslunch , (edited )
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

What else am I missing?

Mostly just that these aren’t the things preventing people from switching.

Get pre-installed Linux hardware on storefronts at Costco, Best Buy, Walmart, etc. That’s when things will change.

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