• melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Proton making Linux better for gaming, which was the biggest excuse for holdouts. Steam deck showing you could not only game on Linux, but do so while sitting in a tree, with long term support implied by show of confidence from a large corporation.

    Windows steepened its enshittification spiral.

    The pandemic put a lot of people in a more experimental space, and they tried a lot of shit. And a lot of people picked up new skills. Including Linux 101.

    And people saw authority in general start failing in a big ways. A lot of people started questioning shit. Including corporate hegemonies.