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What is the State of Linux in 2024? (lemmy.ca)

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What are the important milestones Linux has achieved this year?

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[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The helpful thing is we are at a point people are starting to move over in larger numbers. With every extra person, there is more enthusiasm to get the next useful milestone completed; which will continue to bring in more people. It's pretty telling that the top PC gaming handheld is a Linux offering, not a Windows one. Just a few years ago that idea was unheard of.

As a personal anecdote, I work at a company that releases Windows software. However, in active development we have intentionally decided to not cut ourselves off from Linux and MacOS, and such OS releases are on the order of a month or three of work to make happen, rather than the complete rewrite monstrosity that is the case with our previous offerings.