Linux 2024 Review.. Drama, Hacks, & Growth

[@SavvyNik]

What was your greatest moment for Linux this year?

[@RenderingUser]

The part where im still sitting comfortably on x11 somehow

[@shisui3436]

To be honest, the one statement from Linus that ‘Russian trolls are on the wrong side of history’ after he was criticised by them for removing Russian kernel devs. Which sounds pretty arrogant from a Finnish person especially in relation to WW2 and the Cold War and Finland's role in the blockade of Leningrad under the Nazi Reich. Made him look a bit like a stupid and uneducated person. The critics against Linus are still valid tbh, he shouldn´t have bogged down to some goverment, he only showed that linux is goverment controlable as everything else which people dont understand for now is a huge bummer.

[@FenryrGrey]

that i made the jump from Windows to Linux in March and a whole new world opened up for me.

[@RustIsWinning]

Moist claw machine is the greatest Linux moment of All Time

[@necuz]

Wayland explicit sync on Nvidia for sure, knocked off my last major reason to keep X11 around.

[@samarnagar9699]

Remember guys the year of linux is when you started using it

[@AstraPlanetshine]

2019! is when i moved permanently to Mint after Win7. Can thank Proton for makeing that possible. I have tried several different distributions. But i keep comeing back to Mint to this day.

[@frecio231]

The year of the Linux desktop is the friends we made along the way 😊

[@xnoreq]

I will switch as soon as it is usable, if ever. I just tried it the first time again after ~10 years and I'm really disappointed about how much is still broken on the desktop, how there's even more fragmentation now (from DEs to package management), how there's still X11 and an unfinished alternative that has been in the works for over 16 years .... I mean opening a 7z archive that should open in a second taking minutes, flickering/GPU driver issues, broken drag & drop, logout not actually logging out, system hangs, and still a completely hostile "just run that command in a shell and edit this obscure config file" end-user experience.

[@StephenMcGregor1986]

@@xnoreq odd channel to follow then

[@GracefulEloquence]

I guess the bar has gotten that low now?

[@Cuperino]

2015 will be the year of the Wayland desktop.

[@SavvyNik]

😂

[@emiliocespedes3685]

I'd like for 2025 that the Rust Wars are over. I'm not a programmer, I'm just a Certified Opinionologist, so I can't tell if it's more secure, if the security features are overrated, etc. What I do know is that the Rust based projects I follow are all snappy and solid, Cosmic, Asahi Lina's drivers. So, can we make peace and be friends? I'm pretty ignorant but I do know one thing, people that are 100% in favour or against something, unwilling to even listen to others' point and preferences, and mainly the people that take it as a personal cause, are wrong. Not a fan of programmers that don't even stop to read code that isn't in Rust, and not a fan of crusaders wanting to burn Rust heretics at the stake. From an outsider's perspective it doesn't seem like C is going anywhere, it's probably gonna keep being just as relevant as it is now. Even "dead" languages like Fortran or COBOL or Pascal are still somehow present, and there are less programmers that know those than needed. That's my 100% based on nothing opinion 🤷 P.S.: Happy holidays, merry Christmas, prosperous Sol Invictus and Saturnalia, whatever it is, hope everyone is doing well and hope that the ones that aren't have a better 2025 🫂

[@SavvyNik]

Happy holidays!

[@gljames24]

If you actually look at Fortran, it's surprisingly competent despite being so old. It's math and array tooling is honestly insanely good.

[@FlameForgedSoul]

We're fairly certain it's less about the language (don't get it twisted, it *is* also the language) and more about the irksome ideologues running it. The Linux foundation and FOSS in general are already dealing with similar infectious agents so it's understandable to be unwelcoming to yet another vector/strain.

[@johanb.7869]

That 2024 was my seventh year of using Linux.

[@H4KnSL4K]

Double-like! Thanks for this recap.

[@SavvyNik]

Glad people are enjoying this one!!

[@esra_erimez]

Oomfie with the Triple double no assist

[@SavvyNik]

🤣

[@nixgeek]

2025 is an odd year, so it won't be the year of the Linux desktop.

[@ustrucx]

Some of the last years of Linux.

[@GuzikPL4]

Care to elaborate?

[@ustrucx]

@@GuzikPL4 Linus will retire soon, the linux foundation will take over.

[@CaldonianBoar]

Arc-e-types, my friend, not arc-e-a-types.

[@SavvyNik]

Whooooopssss

[@FlameForgedSoul]

CB, he says "leenus." He's doing it on purpose, don't get dragged in.

[@SavvyNik]

Lol

[@LaSpookyEXE]

Wish more people use linux 😂 is not hard will take you only 3 months to understand it pretty well not that long

[@bloody_albatross]

"Froond" XD

[@lucius8453]

No chapters in the video is critical

[@SavvyNik]

Send some chapters and I’ll add them in ;)

[@lucius8453]

@@SavvyNik hey, you are the creator here. Each time I look in a video like that I am reading chapters, if there are none I dont even watch it because I dont know what is in there

[@SavvyNik]

No

[@SavvyNik]

hey by the way I added chapter for you ;)

[@lucius8453]

@@SavvyNik thank you

[@FlameForgedSoul]

BRICS Linux, let's gooooo.

[@HOBBS-4]

BICS is going broke.

[@brostoevsky22]

Uhhh, no... Europe is going broke

[@udayfluer3744]

linus need some help often times he acts like dictator with his word and disrespect towards developers , if you dont like or believe in a feature a developer did just explain or reject request like its not possible to merge not go rant and abuse them with words which is not suitable for man of his age and things he's doing.

[@Triro]

Wayland is still a complete joke. Basic functionality such as global hotkeys is still missing... It takes on average 3 - 5 years for things to be added... This is of course. Way to goddamn long. So long that some developers give up.

[@Triro]

Also since I can't edit on mobile (thanks KZbin) I daily Wayland. I don't dislike it. Its a good x11 replacement... Its just lacking so many basic things people can and will expect.

[@ItzIcky]

The global hotkeys need to be implemented on the compositors, not on Wayland, just like most missing features

All praise the Church of Wayland, adopt or die.

[@Triro]

@@ItzIcky Its needs to be implemented wayland side. No one uses the complicated hotkey portal. Something that no desktop wants to support is something that isn't a standard. Developers don't like it, and much prefer a wayland protocol. Merge request 216 fixes this (was another merge request, but the original author gave up because of waylands bureaucracy, and self centered interests that go against what users want.) It shouldn't be the compositors job to implement things, you're basically saying we should just return back to x11 days where things are fragmented as hell. The entire point of wayland is to be a single standardized set of protocols.

[@jagagemo8141]

Dumb politics getting in the way of development. Year of the c kernel devs belly aching. :/

[@yaroslav7328]

When you wake up to the sound of air alerts, and your city is under attack by rockets developed by Russian state companies where those so-called innocent developers work, you begin to change your perspective.

[@jagagemo8141]

@yaroslav7328 oh I was referring to the rust stuff. More of an office politics concern, not global politics, but I get why you might have misunderstood.

[@yaroslav7328]

@@jagagemo8141 Sorry. Thanks for explaining.

[@deckard5pegasus673]

Rust sucks. Wayland sucks.

[@romanstingler435]

Please link your code contributions so we can see what good code is

[@StephenMcGregor1986]

@@romanstingler435 old mate and his DeckardOS will single-handedly revolutionise the space I tellz ya

[@deckard5pegasus673]

//infinitely reinvent the wheel with useless mind numbing fad languages/protocols // that break existing systems until the system crashes int main() { bool existMorons = true; // always true, a grim reality srand(time(NULL)); // seed chaos while (existMorons) { // keep them guessing void *NewFadLanguageToSaveTheWorld = malloc(rand() % 100000); // breaking existing programs, one protocol at a time void *NewProtocolBreakingExistingPrograms = malloc(rand() % 1000000); } return 0; //the end of the rainbow, that will never be reached. }

[@deckard5pegasus673]

//infinitely reinvent the wheel with useless mind numbing fad languages/protocols // that break existing systems until the system crashes int main() { bool existMor0ns = true; // always true, a grim reality srand(time(NULL)); // seed chaos while (existMor0ns) { // keep them guessing void *NewFadLanguageToSaveTheWorld = malloc(rand() % 100000); // breaking existing programs, one protocol at a time void *NewProtocolBreakingExistingPrograms = malloc(rand() % 1000000); } return 0; //the end of the rainbow, that will never be reached. }

[@HOBBS-4]

@@romanstingler435 your comment shut his face right up.

[@emiliocespedes3685]

My review of Linux this year is that I found your channel this year and now it's one of my favourite Linux related channels 🫶

[@SavvyNik]

Love the support! Thanks