Comment by jitl
1 hour ago
i think wayland set linux desktop back 10 years. it’s finally coming up to parity with X11. but basic stuff like “get the latest release of of consumer GUI app $foo” is still weirdly mired in odd political plays between flat pack people, distros, and the actual devs. at least audio finally seems to be solved with pipe wire!
Yeah, that was the main attraction of a mac for me. It Just Works, but enough stuff is packaged for it that it can drive like a linux box for a lot of coding tasks. I'm not going back to windows anytime soon, either.
I remember getting in to all kinds of driver rabbit holes every other time I tried to run desktop linux, but a bunch of people I was talking to on here a few weeks ago were saying that's all fixed now.
2026 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop.