I can say with 199% certainty that 2024 will be the year of the Linux Desktop.

I dont have any advice. Just wanted to day I was here before the reason was revealed.

For non technical users, the idea of instances can be a very confusing concept (the email analogy is a good one but its still confusing for people). I know you guys have a lot on your plate in terms of development wise, however I hope that prioritizing keeping lemmy.ml up is high up there. I say this because its the instance that most users from Reddit will flock to. And the last thing they need is to create an account then have the site go down for 6 hours. I havent experienced it going down. Although hopefully you have a backup site for when it does (what I mean is just a page that says your down/your working on fixing it… Try these instances instead.)

Fedora 36 on both my desktop and laptop. (that’s GNU/Linux). Its not the latest because I have outdated hardware. Occasionally dual booth Windows for Valorant and FL Studio.

As to why. I enjoy an Operating System where I can change everything. For me this is Linux. I customize to the point where everything works then I don’t touch it. I used to be obsessed with changing stuff. But this way I have it the way I like it. If anyone is curious, go check out !unixporn@lemmy.ml

• r/BestofRedditorUpdates

• r/coaxedintoasnafu

• r/DeTrashed

• r/dumbphones

• r/digitalminimalism

• r/ForgottenWeapons

• r/fucklawns

• r/OpenSignups

• r/QAnonCasualties

• r/IllegalLifeProTips

Not trying to start any political debates. These are just some of the subreddits that I would like to see as communities here on Lemmy. Feel free to comment if some of these exist and I’ll update my comment.

Ah, just realized that almost none of these are actually niche. Whoops.

Just signed up a few minutes ago. I honestly really like it so far. I was never into Twitter but I did try out mastodon and just couldn’t get used to the look of everything. It was also confusing to sign up. So far Lemmy has been great. I am surprised how many active users there are. I was worried it would be super dead.

edit: spelling