2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

Posted by todsacerdoti 1/3/2026

2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop(xeiaso.net)

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jjaksic 1/3/2026|

"I'm going to go with Fedora on my tower and Bazzite (or SteamOS) on my handhelds."

Why not Bazzite on both? Bazzite is a fantastic desktop OS! Easier to use than naked Fedora and virtually unbreakable.

yewenjie 7 days ago||

Wait didn't xeiaso use NixOS?

https://xeiaso.net/talks/asg-2023-nixos/

xena 7 days ago|

Did, past tense. I'm no longer using it.

spankibalt 1/3/2026||

I'll still be a Windows/Unix dual user. But then again I don't do the Windows "Home version" experience so many here seem eager to humiliate themselves with over and over.

wannabe_loser 7 days ago||

I have been using arch for a while now everything is good except BIOS updates after which I need to reset & fix secure boot everytime

benbristow 1/3/2026||

Cool, see you back on Windows in a month. There's always something. It'll be like the New Year's resolution of going to the gym.

kreijstal 7 days ago|

wait until you see you can use wine..

WackyFighter 1/3/2026||

> TL;DR: 2026 is going to be The Year of The Linux Desktop for me. I haven't booted into Windows in over 3 months on my tower and I'm starting to realize that it's not worth wasting the space for.

Similarly I haven't booted up Windows in months now. Debian is super stable as a desktop OS and does everything I want at it now.

I am in this weird position where I am keeping a Windows installation around just in case I need it for something. I had a one job interview where they wanted me to use Visual Studio (C#) and it turned out they were fine with me using Rider anyway.

Forgeties79 1/3/2026||

Been bazzite-only since April and I love it

colordrops 1/3/2026||

Niri + DankMaterialShell is an amazing desktop experience. I've heard great things about the COSMIC DE as well.

djaouen 1/3/2026|

See, now this is how a website *should* look: mainly text, with non-obtrusive ads at the bottom. It's really not that hard!

8n4vidtmkvmk 1/3/2026|

There's a stickied ad at the bottom that says

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dspillett 1/3/2026|||

Very observant of you. The comment you replied to mentioned “non-obtrusive ads at the bottom” so they noticed that too. IMO “non-obtrusive” is a fair description, given that it doesn't seem to be doing excessive tracking (I didn't spot any extra cookies or other storage, so it is presumably logging little, if any, more than web server logs did in the 90s/00s, which is better than the stalking done by most adtech these days).

djaouen 1/3/2026|||

Hey, gotta pay the bills, somehow! *shrug*

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