Good news! For the first time, #Linux desktop breaks through 5% share in USA OS market as per Statcounter gs.statcounter.com/os-market-s…

Oh, absolutely, Microsoft, please, by all means, continue with your grand experiments like Recall Spyware, deleting email accounts in far-flung corners of the globe or stealing data for AI training. Rest assured, these brilliant strategies will have absolutely no bearing on Win11 desktop adoption. None whatsoever. We thank you from Linux HQ. Lmao.

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Wayland started with far fewer issues than X11 did. When I first started using Linux, X11 issues were the majority of my problems, and I spent untold hours solving them. I guess some people don't remember that or weren't around at the time.

There are a few very vocal detractors, but there are always those people any time systems change. They can mostly be ignored.

Also, I'm not claiming that nobody should use X11. It's very possible there are edge cases where it's the only option.

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Watch, what'll probably happen is X11 will stop being supported (at all) and everyone will be forced onto Wayland, and then a few years later everyone starts to realize it's basically the BTRFS of window managers, 85% there, always has been, always will be.

Then the big scramble comes, smaller more grass roots distros switch to XLibre, big corporate ones hold out and remain swamped in bugs.

Linux desktop experience remains not-that-bad but only if you do NOT install Ubuntu.

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Meanwhile: Microsoft to cut about 4% of jobs (9000 engineering talents) amid hefty AI bets. This was announced hours ago bloomberg.com/news/articles/20… this job cut help offset rising spending on AI infrastructure/investments and reflect a greater push to use AI tools internally, according to an analyst with Bloomberg.

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