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Over the last decade or so I've tried to switch to Linux a bunch of times. This will probably be my final attempt.

Almost everything is already working on Linux, I can play all the games I like, there are good open source or free proprietary alternatives for all the software I use. I truly believe we are approaching the year of Linux desktop.

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AI is also helping a lot here. I always had a hard time making hibernate and especially suspend-to-hibernate work in Linux. And I have managed linux instances at work so I have the know-how. But you simply can't keep wasting time on every niggle in your system. This time with a few prompts to claude code and it quickly figured out from logs what boot params were wrong that needed fixing. Afterwards it just worked, Happy hibernating me after years on linux!

The sleep and hibernate issues keep plagueing me for close to 20y now. I still deal with them and realize it's still a better experience overall compared to windows

the only two things that would make linux unstoppable would be affinity being first class and having something like fusion360 or solidworks work. there are web based versions of solidworks and another option that escapes me atm that would work but that's the web and it's not the same as native imo. i know there are some opensource projects out there but the ones i've seen have been not as good.

I think AI will help with some of this. We already have an 18-year-old building a Lightroom replacement with Gemini (RapidRAW). We just need to get past the phase of everyone abusing AI and spreading crap all over the place.

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