Remember folks, it doesn't have to be the year, it only has to be your year.

Mine was about 19 years ago. I'm no genius, and I haven't regretted it once. Linux has come a long way since then, while windows is deep in the enshittification trenches now, and has been for years. Your YOTLD can start today if you want it to. Tired of being actively abused by your OS? We've been here all along.

And if you are happy where you are, that's fine too.

They thought it was a great idea to remove the feature to unlock the taskbar and move it to the top or side of your screen in windows 11. I don't care if it was a design choice, it was a fucking stupid one.

Can we stop with this? It was an over hyped slogan and we can give it a rest. People are slowly switching to Linux and that's good enough

I have mint running on my laptop now.

Pro tip for anyone who wants to try Linux and maybe attempt to set up dual boot with Windows:

TURN OFF BITLOCKER ENCRYPTION IN WINDOWS FIRST.

IF you don't, here's what happened to me:

Mint live USB instance booted easily at first. I started the install process and selected dual boot. Mint setup then proceeded to prompt me to enroll a MACHINE OWNER KEY... And then realized that bitlocker encryption would prevent it from setting up dual boot.

It said, to paraphrase, "exit mint setup, log back into Windows, disable bitlocker, then you can come back and install"

Well that was a fucking lie because YOU CANNOT GET BACK INTO MINT!

WHY? Because mint FORGOT the MOK!

When you try to get back into mint from the boot selection menu, it says

Something has gone seriously wrong: import_mok_state() failed: Not Found

the upshot is that you computer will never let mint live USB session ever boot again UNLESS you disable secure boot in BIOS and rename grub to mmx64.efi in the ISO image.

And if you DO those things chances are mint will never present you with the option to detect and set up dual boot with you extant windows instance ever again.

I went ahead and nuked my windows 11 instance on my laptop because it was being a bitch and clearly was never going to be a good neighbor to mint. I have no major regrets because mint is nice and I like it. It just didn't turn out how I would've ideally intended. But one way or another Windows 11 HAD TO GO. So, in the broad sense, I wanted to switch to mint... And I have! All good.

These threads are always hilarious. People are not switching to any kind of desktop. They are moving away from PCs entirely. There is an entire population who only use a phone as their computer.

I see Lain, I upvote. Because, no matter where they are, people are connected.

If only the Linux desktop stopped getting offended when it’s not treated like a server and has to shut down. “Wait, you had audio settings that I was supposed to remember? Cool story bro…”

Let's all love Linux

Honest question, how would my life improve if more people switched to Linux? God bless all the maintainers that have made it simple enough for an idiot like me to understand it

Most things work right out of the box and those that don't I could do less with anyway, Linux is perfect

why doesn't everybody understand that it's ALWAYS the year of the linux desktop, you just haven't been invited yet, that's the only problem.

Lain is what prompted me to switch to Linux! Watching a character who doesn't yet understand computers fuck around with a computer really inspired me to fuck around with my computer

As the old Mayans foretold.

When my elderly, and tech illiterate family ask how to switch from Windows; I’m sorry but I’m not telling them to use Linux because they’re going to harass me nonstop for tech support.

At best this will be the year of macOS, because there’s a store I can send them to for all their questions.

I bet the users make the chocolate taste terrible