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Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA (ostechnix.com)
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[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I made the switch recently for probably the strangest reason.

I’ve been running win 11 for over a year using a shell tool that allowed me to move my task bar to the top of the screen and some other win 10 functionality.

However win 11 removed the ability to move the task bar and my shell program lost most of its functionality. After that I was done.

I’ve Linux off and on since 2002ish so it’s not scary to me and I’m pretty happy with Arch and KDE right now. Still the occasional crash that appears to happen sometimes when watching YouTube.

[–] walderan@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Hey, don't knock customization as a reason. A couple of decades ago, I was sold on Linux by silly Beryl/Compiz videos such as this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=038RHEGu4OY

[–] enthusiasm_headquarters@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yo compiz is the shit. You can do ANYTHING with it. It took me a while to figure out because where the hell is the manual, but I have my own custom thing going on and it's brilliant.

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Gimme mah Cube!

And the wobblies and explosions are cool too!

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If anyone is stuck on windows and not able to switch there's a program called wind hawk that will let you download customizations in windows 11 including moving the bar

[–] enthusiasm_headquarters@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

it's sad, pathetic, and stupid that one has to download a potentially dangerous hack to do something so basic.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

From my reading all ways to move the task bar have been removed.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This is working currently on windows 11 23h2. There are other mods for the top too I just prefer a right side vertical.

https://windhawk.net/mods/taskbar-vertical

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Fine… that version, not 24H2

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

idk how you stayed on windows so long, had I tried linux sooner I wouldve dumped it faster, no software support or piracy for said software if it does have support is rough tho like houdinifx is hard to pirate if not impossible, davinci is easy tho, adobe has no support (no idea if it works well with wine pirated)