@teacherbuknoy NO!

• Just go and install #Linux already!! A #VirtualBox VM with #HostOnly-Adaptor will be fine...

You can even used the cursed Linux Subsystem for Windows (cuz the real "Windows Subsystem for Linux" is #Wine + #DXVK aka. #Proton!)…

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NVIDIA 580 Linux driver will be the last to support Maxwell, Pascal and Volta GPUs, X11 versions older than v1.17 will also be deprecated:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-580-Linux-Driver-Last-HW

Bash 5.3 released with a new form of command substitution that executes the command within the current shell execution context, GLOBSORT variable can be used to determine how the shell will sort results of pathname completion, etc.:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Bash-5.3

DXVK 2.7 released with Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 based games and applications running atop the Vulkan API, other changes:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-2.7-Released

Alpine Linux developer Ariadne Conill announced Wayback, a new X11 compatibility layer on Wayland, utilizing a rootful XWayland server:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayback-X11-Wayland

TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen7 laptop available with AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX and AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D processors:
https://9to5linux.com/tuxedo-stellaris-16-gen7-linux-laptop-now-ships-with-amd-ryzen-9-cpus

Linux reaches 5% desktop marketshare in the US:
https://ostechnix.com/linux-reaches-5-desktop-market-share-in-usa/

(FOSS news in comments)

@cesarpose @mrmasterkeyboard @fuchsiii that's why #XWayland exist: Allow people to continue using #Xorg applications until their maintainers did the necessary fixups so they work on #Wayland.

• It's like #Wine+#DXVK / #Proton: A crutch that allows users to not be bothered or get angry at the wrong people and just have the cleanups being done in the background...

https://mastodon.social/@knoppix95/114716132087501705

@Kancept @elementary most of the time some #Xwayland for #DXVK / #Proton / #Wine is sufficient...

@fabiscafe @okapi OFC @chesheer 's criticism is understandable on #FreeBSD given that #SystemD is inherenty focussed and intertwined with #Linux (just as it's Inspiration, #LaunchD, is intertwined with #macOS's Darwin/NeXTstep kernel).

• The problem is after some hefty "init wars" with like #Upstart and others SystemD became the de-facto standard, and the "(statistical) rounding errors" of #BSD users got sidelined, in part because BSDs looked at that mess and went like "Nyet, SysVinit is fine!" and continued their fiddling around...

And sadly there's nothing they (or anyone else) could've done unless they had multiplied suddenly and being able to keepcthe old tech stack maintainable.

• Similarly #Xorg is dying and there are already GPUs that only support #Wayland and #X11 apps get run using #XWayland.

OFC I wish for more diversity in solutions, but #Linux being #streamlined is what makes #portability across distros easier and boosted adoption as well as providing massive gains in solutions like #DXVK, #Proton and #Wine in general.

• And TBH most "#TechIlliterates" aka. "#Normies" frankly don't give a shit what OS they use. All it needs to do is serve them their eMails and allow them to 'consoom themselbes happy' as in watching YouTube, Play games, etc.

@grumpygamer generally like having multiple options to be able to check and help with graphics drivers bugs on Linux. Was also surprised that #OpenGL was seemingly faster than #Vulkan with @play0ad on my Lenovo T14s AMD gen3 laptop (only checked briefly though). I'd mostly be concerned about cross platform compatibility, but I guess Vulkan has you covered there. And it's also a little less of a concern for me since #Wine / #Proton and #DXVK have made such a tremendous progress in the last years.

@johnlogic @brettm @libreoffice Linux has gained share, from 0,1% to almost 2%, and is likely growing exponentially as more and more "#TechIlliterates" and "#Normies" get to like it...

• I mean, #SteamDeck showed that #LinuxGaming is mainstream and the only big hurdles today are #Developers & #Publishers deliberately designing their software to not run in #Proton (#Wine + #DXVK) like #EpicGames, #Microsoft & #Adobe do!