[the_af]

We Linux desktop people aren't fighting our desktop anymore. Everything just works and it has for some years now. Linux with Steam + Proton is a better gaming platform than MacOS, by the way.

The Year of the Linux Desktop arrived a while ago and nobody noticed :)

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Well, you can choose to fight your OS (said with love from a Gentoo and NixOS user). You just don't have to:)

[hju22_-3]

> Everything just works and it has for some years now.

Strange then, that so many people and particularly those who haven't spent years or decades fighting their OS or desktop environment, seem to disagree.

Every time a linux user says "everything just works" there's a massive gotcha. Remove the terminal and try to use a linux system, setting everything up, while properly roleplaying those who haven't spent years to get used to linux's many weird choices and you'll perhaps understand.

[dns_snek]

You can replace "linux" with "windows" in your comment and make the same point.

I've installed Ubuntu and Fedora KDE for less technical relatives and they've used them without issues.

[skeledrew]

> get used to linux's many weird choices

Choices are only weird if there's prior experience with something else with significant enough differences. In this case I still remember the effort it took to switch from Windows to Linux, but I used Zorin OS to make that road smoother.

[the_af]

I mean, I mentioned Steam and Proton, every game works now and you don't have to do anything. What's less "terminal user" than that?

I suggest you try it now, I think you're stuck on outdated knowledge.