THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP! LETS GO!
Statcounter, a company that tracks website traffic and operating system use, shows a clear picture. In April 2024, Linux had a small 2.84% slice of the desktop market in Europe. Fast forward to July 2025, and that share has jumped to an impressive 5.21%. That’s a massive 83.45% increase in just over a year.
that’s actually a huge increase!
but here’s a fresh twist in the tech world: Linux
Fresh twist?
Like a multi decade old and proven system is the new kid in the block?multi decade old and proven
My 2010 audio drivers would like to have a word with you
Still in disbelief how they wreck it even in the simplest things.
Remember how clicking the audio system tray icon would open… The common audio settings and nothing else, idem dito for the network icon. For some incomprehensible reason they jammed those system tray icons menus all together a few years ago, you need more clicks, it’s less intuitive and less efficient. For what reason? No one knows.
Remember how right clicking an icon would open a quite extensive context menu? Gone. Now it’s a few BS options I never need. For example “open with…”: gone. Now in the freaking context menu you have to click “more options” for another, full context menu to appear.
Incredible BS tiny changes with a big negative user experience impact I truly cannot grasp why they’d do it. Only reason everyone sticks around is (bad) habits, vendor lockin and obligations for certain software by school or work who insist on keeping Microsoft because they themselves are also vendor locked in or just very very scared of change.
Not to mention the other great features of the shiny new context menu: Annoying little lag when opening, and changing of the content about 1.5 secs after it has opened — right when you have started to click some item so you end up doing some random unintended thing. Chef’s kiss
Exactly!
I think this is the smartphonification of the desktop. Android and iOS hide most settings, it works out of the box, while the user has no idea what’s happening in the background. To be honest: at least the reliability of the software has drastically improved. Nowadays the network just works, so no need to know the details. I remember the days of Win95 and BNC network, where it always took an hour and several tries until the network was up.
Try managing your printers in the modern interface.
I am not surprised. Windows 11 is an utter shit. It is much worse than 10.
The start menu is a Web app as I understand.
What the actual fuck? How the fuck does that even work? So if you don’t have any Internet connection you can’t use the goddamn start button what the
No, I think it works without a network connection. But it’s
an Electrona React Native app now, which means it’s a glorified webview displaying an HTML document pretending to be an app because apparently even Microsoft don’t give a shit about MAUI.Electron apps (and similar shit like React Native) are notorious for being slow and extremely resource-hungry. You know, exactly what you don’t want a care part of your OS to be.
It’s worse that that. Only parts of the start menu are in react native (but it still needs to initialized every time you open it)
I don’t know that I would say “much worse.” But it’s more than incrementally worse, which is what most of the updates to Win10 have been over its lifetime. So straw, meet camel’s back.
