> macOS is still the best OS I'd want to use IMO
Linux has low-key become a very valid choice for a desktop OS. You can thank a lot of people for that.
Apple and Microsoft for sandbagging.
NixOS for pioneering the immutable Linux concept.
Valve for heavily investing into making games run well.
GitHub for inventing Electron, the eater of RAM and the great equalizer of UX.
Lots and lots of Linux and distro maintainers and contributors, achieving the opposite of the death of a thousand cuts.
There are some still unsolved problems, like power management and device drivers, but I feel like we're over the hump. There's a critical mass of regular people using Linux as their primary desktop OS on modern hardware, so trying to make Linux work on a 2025 laptop no longer feels like empty struggle.
Linux has low-key become a very valid choice for a desktop OS. You can thank a lot of people for that.
Apple and Microsoft for sandbagging.
NixOS for pioneering the immutable Linux concept.
Valve for heavily investing into making games run well.
GitHub for inventing Electron, the eater of RAM and the great equalizer of UX.
Lots and lots of Linux and distro maintainers and contributors, achieving the opposite of the death of a thousand cuts.
There are some still unsolved problems, like power management and device drivers, but I feel like we're over the hump. There's a critical mass of regular people using Linux as their primary desktop OS on modern hardware, so trying to make Linux work on a 2025 laptop no longer feels like empty struggle.