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For professionals and hobbyists yes. For most people, not at all.
by joehart42 10y ago
For professionals and hobbyists yes. For most people, not at all.
- roadnottaken 10y agoAren't most (many?) adults professionals? Most college-educated people I know spend most of their working hours in front of a computer not a smartphone.
- freehunter 10y agoI'm a professional, working a technical role for one of the largest tech companies in the world. I'm using a MacBook, but I've done a (proof of concept) week of work entirely from an iPhone SE. Some of my coworkers use Red Hat, some use Windows. I know one guy working on an iPad Pro, although he's a little less technical than the rest of us so most of his day is spent in PowerPoint. But my job mainly consists of interacting with remote machines through a web browser or SSH. Thanks to the Internet, I don't need to worry about what physical form factor my machine is. If all you need is Word, Excel, a web browser, and email, you're basically set no matter where you go. Desktops are less relevant today than ever before. For many people, the desktop OS is just a VM host and their browser is the real "OS".
- roadnottaken 10y agoI largely agree with you, but there are still a lot of common office functions (e.g. printing) that aren't well-served by browser-based computing. Added to which, many businesses still use custom or industry-specific desktop software that hasn't migrated to the browser yet. Personally, I'm with you -- I don't care about OS and do most of my work through browser/terminal. But there is still some critical scientific software that keeps me on Windows/OSX and I wouldn't dream of doing graphic design in a browser. I also agree that "Desktops are less relevant today than ever before" but they're far from irrelevant... Maybe in a decade or two.