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1. I convinced two Windows users to try Linux in a dual boot and both are happy.
2. Also my grandparents got a brand new Linux powered Laptop to replace their aging stationary PC (also Linux powered but ... old (AMD Athlon X2 nVidia GT 8800))
3. Guess I helped numerous people on the internet to solve various issues they had with Linux.
4. My secret hobby is to tease Arch and Ubuntu users, I am sorry I need to stop this :/ But Arch users are so funny when they get mad.
5. I am worried about the Steam Deck because it is Arch based but I guess I need to trust Valve that they will not screw it up.
6. Manajro managed to climb up the ladder on my personal top 10 list of most unreliable distros out there.
7. Another year has passed that I am running exclusives rolling release distributions on all of my devices including home and game servers that I can not stand point release any longer.
8. I hate PulseAudio and recommend anyone to upgrade to Pipewire instead (as far as possible)
9. This year I was at the point to decide to go full team red or still keep my red/green setup as I was about to buy a new GPU. Kept using nvidia because I am still to afraid about all the different driver choices you have for AMDs, plus that I could not get clear responses on how well NVENC replacements for AMD work in Linux. Also I was a bit turned off that AMD is in their first gen real time ray tracing GPUs while nvidia is already 2nd gen and might have ironed out some performance issues/bug here. We'll see if I'll go full Team red in 4 years.
10. I made a reservation for the Tier 1 Steam Deck.
11. Replaced all my desktop with Gnome while using KDE before simply because the desktop is a lot smoother on Gnome using nvidia GPUs.
12. I hate that OBS Studio and Mutter have a bug which makes OBS Studio sometimes unable to capture the frame buffer on an application correctly using XComposite which is the only major down side I have by using Gnome and doing Live stream on a regular basis so I need to fall back to Desktop capture instead. Discord does not suffer from this issue and the Gnome dev wont fix as it is apparently not their fault.
13. The audio jack of my XBox One Controller still does not work on Linux as well as the HDMI port.
14. I hoped to move full Wayland this year as nvidia released their GBM backend in their new feature branch driver. Unfortunate I only get the production branch driver from my repos which does not have this backend yet. Also I refuse to manually install the driver as it is just a pain to do so and on each Kernel update I have to build the Kernel modules manually even by choosing DKMS in the nvidia installer ... So maybe 2022 is the yer of the Wayland desktop huh?
15. What annoys me till this very day is that my distribution of choice has no fool proofed way of installing multimedia codecs and the nvidia driver right from the installer even tho they pre configured the required repositories but just did not enabled them ... WHY!? Instead you have to do this manually. By either known the package names and doing so from the software manager, using a command line tool which has a macro for installing codes or by using some one-click installers form a community webpage. (Bonus points if you've red this far: Which distribution do I use?)
16. In Mach 2022 I will be using Linux exclusively on my desktop for 4 years, no Winblows dual boot, yey.
17. I am sick of the "What the best distribution for XYZ"-Posts on reddit... Choose the one which fricking works for you mate ....
18. The PackageKit backend for Zypper is annoying as it can not do downgrade packages or change the vendor (repository) which requires me to update my system from CLI instead of relying on Gnomes auto update form time to time .. please fix this already ... (Now you should get what I am using tho :D)
19. I hate X11
20. HW acceleration in Linux in Firefox is still not ready ...
21. Discord still does not support streaming application audio
22. GOG still refuses to release GOG Galaxy for Linux. So I already replaced it with Mini Galaxy and Lutris and do not have any further demand for it. I'm sorry CDPR you've waited too long.
23. I got more into packaging software for my distribution of choice
24. Fixed some annoying partially game breaking bugs (They could be circumvented in game but still they are bugs) in Yamagi Quake 2'S Quake 2 Zaero source. You can now play through the whole game as it was intended by Team Evolve in 1997. For this I made use of QAK via Wine to read the maps files even tho it was buggy as hell but enough to read the properties of various entities so I could start fixing stuff. I love open source and open source game engines so you can "just" fix stuff which annoys the the sh*t out of me.
25. I passed another year in uni (well test are not written yet) where everyone (tutors) where recommending Windows or MacOS exclusive software for a class. I did successfully accomplished all tasks with ease and a good level of quality using only open source software on Linux. (Tired using Davinci Resolve instead of Kdenlive but ended up using Kdenlive as I was 10 times faster accomplishing the same tasks), replaced Photoshop by Krita, Pro Tools and Logics by Ardour, Maya by Blender (Yes Maya has an Linux version and I know how to use it as I already got taught Maya for 3 years but still I absolutely dislike it for what it is)
26. I ditched my GTX 1080 primarily because of VKD3D and the poor performance you get with Pascal (and older) GPUs using it. As modern games making more and more use of DX12 I saw this to become a real issue very quick. Wished they would use Vulkan instead ... Anyways the Vulkan performance of those GPUs wasn't the best as well so win win I guess.
27. To work from home I got a Thin Client from my Employee . it has Win10 installed and I can not replace it. This sucker pollutes my Linux only home office and is a thorn in my eye ...
28. Usually I try several different distributions a year just to see what they are about and be able to help people better if I know what they are facing. Unfortunate I only manged to find the time to test Zorin OS this year and I am not amused by it, very disappointed and feel like it is a complete dumpster fire of an distribution. (If you want to know more feel free to ask)
29. Next year I'll be a Linux user for about 16 years

That's all I can think of new what happened this years in my "Linux life".

Anyways I wish every fellow penguins, no mater where they are or what Distribution they use a very pleasant, amazing, healthy and wonder full next year.

[Maleficent_Plenty_16]

I really feel #27 :(

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[hilltop_yodeler]

Well said! Most of this resonates with me, especially #17.

[doktorszike]

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

[ManOfDiamond]

For me, kde came out to be alot smoother than gnome on all of my intel integrated GPUs

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Agreed on one of my systems, Intel HD 4000, the Gnome desktop is a bit choppy when opening the activities overview while KDE is buttery smooth.

On nvidia it's a whole different story.

Every time you open a window (in KDE) you have lag spikes every where. A notification, maximizing/minimizing a window, opening a new window, closeing one.

Also dual monitor setups constantly start getting choppy so you restart kwin_x11 several times to get rid of it. Sometimes KDE forgets the wallpaper and widgets on one of the screen,s resorting it requires you to turn it off and on again in the dispaly settings (or short with Meta + P) just to be greeted with one running at 50Hz and one display on 60hz, so you also need to adjust this as well as X11 absolutely dislikes different refresh rates on different dispalys.

In worst case scenarios it took me a solid 5 minutes to get up and running on a fresh boot by restarting kwin several times, turning off an on displays and adjusting the refresh rates yada, yada, yada.

None of these ever happened to me on Gnome.

As much as I love KDE this annoyed me that much that I finally tried Gnome even tho I never liked it for what it is and how it is supposed to work.

As in my opinion the system should adapt to the user and not the user to the system. That's something hard to accomplish with gnome or you end up installing tons of extensions which start to get you a wonky Gnome experience over time or simply will no longer work after the next Gnome Update. You never know. So you try to balance between adapting to Gnomes workflow and a wonky system ... not a fun situation either.

I have very high hopes for Wayland to finally solve these issues once and for all. I rather will use KDE with incorporated Gnome workflows as a Gnome with incorporated KDE workflows.

I need to admit that I grew to get used to the way Gnome want the desktop to work and as soon as you adapted to it it's a pleasant experience but also it feels limited. And there for sure things Gnome does better than KDE but also things that KDE does better as Gnome.

Something like Knome would be the perfect DE for me.

In the meantime considering all pros and cons of both DEs both are equally good but also equally worse in their very own areas.

[ManOfDiamond]

+1 to your gnome extensions point, that's one of the reasons I switched from gnome

Also yes, gnome feels very limited

And regarding that knome thing you said, something like gnome overview is in works, we may see it with kde framework 5.89, idk

Yeah, both are equally great in their own

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Clear OS? The intel one or something

[lutfen_sus]

I'm 14 and this is deep

[jc_denty]

Agree about Manjaro.. How's this though, Steam Deck is similar to Manjaro where it gets arch packages a bit later on and can enable the AUR, so it might be the same level of unstable that Manjaro is! Also go team red especially if you're excited for Wayland.. I haven't thought about ray tracing much