@gamingonlinux Toss up between the rise of atomic OS's & wayland being kind of ready now.

@gamingonlinux it's *really* hard for me to give any answer other than the #steamdeck

I know people who would never have bothered with a Linux machine before that now use one on a regular basis.

@gamingonlinux Yeah, containers->WSL2 is probably a good one. Or Steam Deck? Big companies (EA, Bethesda, Ubisoft, ...) caring about Linux+Proton compatibility?

@gamingonlinux full fledged support of gaming at cloud savesgames and native support of the game to all distros.

@gamingonlinux I will vote for #Valve's effort in #Proton and #SteamDeck, they made gaming on Linux not only possible but great. And more importantly, they just advertise this concept to average gamers (those who are not tech nerd) and brought more attention in this area than ever before

@gamingonlinux Steam Decks!
Not just because they're great but because of what they did for Linux.
I used to be a twitch streamer using Arch. Had I not been thoroughly experienced with terminals before it would not have been possible. To this day I still basically "speak Linux".
Steam changed that. Most of the stuff I boot up just works. Never before in the history of Linux has anyone ever said those words before 😅

@gamingonlinux Valve

@gamingonlinux Unity3D self-destructing :blobcatcoffee:

@gamingonlinux I can't decide between Steamdeck/Proton and Windows 11.

@gamingonlinux So many things:

- Proton, due to Valve investing on the Steak Deck
- Flatpak, for installing distro-agnostic apps
- Flathub, for having a neutral place to put flatpaks
- Containers, to make it easier to reproduce software stacks locally
- toolbx & distrobox, for making stateful containers easy
- GNOME's community outreach with libadwaita & GNOME Circle apps
- Atomic distributions, for a tested set of software & rollbacks
- More app availability (both FOSS & proprietary)

@gamingonlinux For servers, going with https://opencontainers.org/ OCI. Podman is great.

For Desktop, going with Proton. Although recently, atomic desktops is getting up there (go go container ideas).

#podman #proton #OCI #ublue

@gamingonlinux I vote for the success of the Steam Deck. Put a new Linux gaming machine - a good one - into a lot of peoples' hands.

@gamingonlinux steam deck + wine/proton improvements + ui/ux improvements

@gamingonlinux I want to say Proton. But that's more game related. Uh, immutable distros? 🤷‍♂️

@gamingonlinux #SteamDeck. no competition.

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systemd

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#FedoraAtomic leveraging container images for the host system, allowing us to reuse the OCI ecosystem to compose and distribute customizable yet very stable Linux OSs for workstations and more

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Flatpak
It's reduces friction when choosing a distro, now as a user you need to worry less about repository size and upgrade frequency. Because even the tiniest independent distro can have the lastest versions like a rolling release and Debian size repos.

@gamingonlinux Flatpak.

@gamingonlinux Steamdeck, significant contributions weather you're a gamer or not. Both with Proton / Wine improvements, AMD Driver improvements, And general improvements even to stuff like KDE.

@gamingonlinux Steam Deck as a whole (Proton + Hardware and a great community). Without that, Linux would still be that OS I'd love to use but never actually decide to, except for work maybe.

@gamingonlinux Proton and Steam Deck

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Flatpak and Flathub which make life much easier for developers, while offering users a wide choice of applications, whatever their distribution.

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I think it has been the increasing adoption due to its improvements in the UI, and the vast documentation, also because all the apps ecosystem nowadays is very extensive.

@gamingonlinux Windows 11. It's so garbage it pushed me off to Linux finally :P

@gamingonlinux depends on how you define "few years" but I'd have to say Proton, probably.

@gamingonlinux For me, definitely the Steam Deck.

Not only because it‘s a great device in itself, but because it led to big publishers like Sony, ActiBlizz and EA actually optimizing their games for a Linux based device.

The whole handheld PC gaming niche is a great way for Linux to get a foothold in the consumer market, partly because Windows is such a pain to use on a handheld device.

Linux gaming was already in a good spot before the Deck arrived, but now I think it has really taken off.

@gamingonlinux Steam Deck as others previously have stated and as a storage/virtualization admin I'd also like to mention infrastructure solutions like OpenStack and Ceph helping us all keep up with the ever increasing needs of computing and volume 💪

@gamingonlinux Oooh oooh, forgot Godot! 😄

@gamingonlinux Windows 11 and Steam Deck. I've never had MS so thoroughly make me leave their OS in my life, and after using the steam deck and touching Linux for the first time in ages, wow its been a great change

@gamingonlinux Microsoft firing Lennart Poettering.

@gamingonlinux Valve.

@gamingonlinux Everything #microsoft did in the last 2 years...

@gamingonlinux
* nVidia open-source drivers
* the growing awareness of the need for better design/UX
* the OS is free, in a world where everything tends to be more and more expensive
* the environment-friendly ability of the OS, as it can be run on 10+ years computer without any problems, and still being secure and up-to-date
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And gosh, thanks #Valve

@gamingonlinux Proton

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Probably #proton, without gaming we wouldn't have so many people daily driving #linux.

@gamingonlinux you

@gamingonlinux There's a lot of good answers here already, but I'm going to say #Fedora #Kinoite.

Vulkan

@gamingonlinux its popularity rise. I think more and more folks are moving outside the Apple And Microsoft relams

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Windows getting worse and worse.

@gamingonlinux Steam 😁

@gamingonlinux Dxvk. All Linux Gaming improvements are based on this little software project.

@gamingonlinux windows

@gamingonlinux Firstly, Linux community is now comfortable environment for development and safe communication (it was important)
Secondly, Valve's influence on Linux, for sure. Valve makes Linux more enjoyable
Tertiary, Everytime increase level of performance. Stonks

@gamingonlinux definitely the #SteamDeck

@gamingonlinux For the average consumer? The Steam Deck. While a lot of people may never see desktop mode, I use it extensively at least 3-4 days a week as a daily laptop.

It's not the strongest laptop I could bring, but it's strong enough for every day use. I'm learning to love what Arch Linux and KDE can offer!

@gamingonlinux the #steamdeck for the average user.