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On 11/5/24 8:53 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 04/11/2024 22:26, John Ames wrote:
>> On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 13:19:25 +0000
>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> But one has to ask what in fact a desktop OS is for these days.
>>
>> Any damn thing you please, no walled gardens needed, thankyouverymuch.
>>
>>> The 'home PC' is now a fondleslab, TV or smartphone.
>>
>> People have been nattering about "the death of the PC" for upwards of
>> twelve years now - and they're still here.
>>
> Yes, but they are no longer the goto for an IT illiterate consumer.
> 
> A desktop workstation is in use by people in business, by designers, and 
> by hard core realtime 3D gamers.
> 
> Everything else has gone touchy-feely-crappy.
> 
> That's changed the dynamic of 'what in fact a desktop OS is for these days'
> 
> I didn't mean there wasn't a need for one: Just that as desktops move 
> into more professional areas, they way they work doesn't need to be so 
> 'chrome and tailfin'
> 
> Microsoft is keeping the PC market alive by introducing new code that 
> wont run on old hardware. Apple is the same.
> 
> So the second hand market is flooded with dirt cheap PCS that wont run 
> win11 or whatever.
> 
> I think this will in the end drive some applications to run on Linux as 
> well as windows and OSX
> 
> Or windows will as someone else pointed out, be simply a certified WINE 
> interface.
> 
> The only thing that windows can do, but its a very important thing, is 
> to runs specialist 3rd party programs.


   You're not entirely wrong.

   'PCs' are heavily 'game' oriented now.

   With gigabit+ internet in many places MOST ordinary/biz
   users can get by with the "thin terminal" model. All the
   real work is done "out there" on some corps supercluster.

   Back to the 70s !

   Which makes them your masters/owners.

   But few think about that. Like, what could go wrong ?

   Alas this current, defective, paradigm means that
   even Linux/Unix servers and workstations get degraded
   by another notch in the big scheme of things.

   MIGHT be time to push into a "two worlds" paradigm -
   "cloud" -vs- "local".