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This will surely be the year of the Linux desktop.

You can even install PowerShell for your command line and you'll feel right at home!

Sure you can but what about cmdlets? Do we have an open source "coreutil" that offers reasonable compatibility with the standard powershell environment?

has been the case for me for more than 5 years.

20 years here, going fine :) But I guess the joke never ends

No, 20 years is the fusion power joke, not the year of the linux desktop joke

I thought that fusion is 40 years away, and has been every year for the past 50 years? :)

The "Year Of The Linux Desktop" has been a thing since at least the heyday of Slashdot, which would put it at 20-ish years.

Unless that was intended as a humorous joke? Your post, I mean - not the Year Of the Linux Desktop, :)

My post was less of a joke than Windows 11 is. But probably funnier.

Once Infrastructure Week is finished ... just a little bit longer

I'm sure that's never been said before

I can run pretty much any game out of the box, even random games that nobody would ever have optimised for linux.

The time of the desktop has come.

It sometimes does a better job than Windows at running Windows games.

Serious question: Did you play the Diablo IV open beta weekend? (It's live for 4 more hours).

I did, on my Windows 10 box. The issue isn't random games that no one would ever have optimized, the issue is bleeding edge games that most people want to play, and play right now.

If you didn't, can you? If (the royal) you can't, get started in the time remaining, download speeds allowing, the year of the Linux desktop isn't here.

From the great grandparent - they did play the Diablo 4 beta on Ubuntu.

>And the kicker? Blizzard's recently opened beta of Diablo 4 just worked. As in, I clicked install, clicked play, and it just worked. Perfectly. As if I were still running under Windows. I've never before seen such sorcery.

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