You might be interested in Winboat if that’s the only thing keeping you

Apparently Windows 11 sent out an EOL notice for October 2026 recently too. https://www.tech2geek.net/windows-11-24h2-support-ends-on-october-13-2026-heres-how-to-stay-protected/

Steam Machine also came out and sold around 20k machines in the USA. I also wouldn’t discount how good LLMs are at guiding people through “complicated” things like swapping to Linux. GPT for example suggests moving to Linux on first prompt after asking how to fix the windows 11 eol message. Seems like a perfect storm that led to a ton of people swapping to Linux for a wide variety of reasons.

I’ve noticed some pretty big spikes in download stats for certain distros like CachyOS and Bazzite, too. I’ve seen a lot of stories of people churning through Linux in the past and recently coming back to it because the software has matured so much and Windows and OSX are enshittifying.

I think datacenter use may be part of it- usage peaks at the middle of the working day and the highest peaks are on Monday. Its also possible a lot of companies related to AI swapped to Linux distros on workforce computers to reduce headaches in managing AI workloads. There is something that happened July 1st-6th that caused the trendline to accelerate, maybe Kimi K3 news and market shocks? But it should be noted Bazzite and CachyOS use peaked around this time as well.

https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq give this a whirl

become a doctor so you can be doctor strange

vpn company be normal for 1 second challenge [impossible]

China also has a centralized data repo that companies can access but must also contribute to

idk maybe how he constantly says right wing shit?

zizek is a moron

6k people swapping in a couple weeks is pretty big. And it’s likely more because not all computers use countme

It’s the kind of thing they should have developed to release-ready state 20 years ago -

That did happen btw! The project is called the android open source project

Yeah rolling back snapshots is way more annoying than ostree and is kinda a shotgun solution. Also ostree saves more disk space.

It’s nice to have an undo button on terminal shenanigans!

Yeah. You can layer it like a git repo fork layers it’s changes. If something breaks you can just clear that forked branch and redo it. Takes like 2 minutes to fix.

So yeah you can alter system files in a very safe way and can easily revert changes if you don’t like the result. rpm-ostree reset is the command that clears all changes and resets to master. I’d recommend looking at the rpm-ostree docs for a full explanation of functionality

How long have you been using Linux? I’ve been using it since around 2004. About every 2 years a major upgrade would make my computer kill itself and I’d have to manually repair it over the course of a weekend. I do security software work and often to make that suite of software (some of it not niche like vpn apps) function you must alter some system files. Layering these apps over the system solves the problem.

It requires literally zero work from me to maintain, that’s why I’m enthusiastic and want the project to do well. Saying mutable Linux is zero work is dead wrong. And if you do put work into your system, it actually sticks and doesn’t decide to explode one day over it.

The real problem is config drift. You have to maintain a lot of little fixes over time as you operate vanilla Linux. I’ve run fedora atomic (and rebased to bazzite when it got fairly big) since it launched years ago with only one relatively minor hiccup that was resolved by a single line in terminal (rpm-ostree rebase). You can layer stuff over it to modify the base image and clear it if something breaks, whereas manually removing critical packages and being sure to clear every file would be a nightmare on any other distro. It’s an extremely hands off experience that works just like git does and is very bullet proof and reproducible.

I like putting it on old people’s computers. It’s perfect for a seamless experience.

i have a friend in beijing that says kfc is essentially a gourmet experience in comparison to the usa. hope we’re not making them think american fast food is good

I have a tens unit attached to my ass that has its voltage increase as bazzite gets more users

i find its easier to just copy paste cryptomator everywhere into backups than rclones built in setup