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And yet many years ago I was using Debian on a laptop with 32MB of RAM. I was using the "Awesome" lightweight desktop and spending 99% of the time in the termin

And yet many years ago I was using Debian on a laptop with 32MB of RAM. I was using the "Awesome" lightweight desktop and spending 99% of the time in the terminal. SSH to work on remote servers, Vim for development, git, IRC, text email, man and less for documentation (installed locally), rsync. Occasional browsing with Dillo. Believe me or not, I miss the productivity of not being forced to use tons of stuff in browser.

teleforce 6y ago
This. I'm not sure how many more years people will eventually realize that web is originally invented for sharing documents over the decentralized internet and not really suited for other type of applications. The proliferation of app-over-web is really pushing it including the online web based video editing [1]. Off course the online companies are loving the status quo since they can sell us advertisements and perhaps our data as well in exchange for online free software, or the dreaded "pay-forever" subscription based software. I agree it's really convenient to go gung-ho all-web but how long can you survive by continuously eating fast food diets? With cheap off-the-shelf multi-core CPU (latest 64 cores/128 threads), terabytes SSD, and terabytes RAM (including the new Optane non volatile memory) the modern laptop/PC is even more powerful than twenty years ago supercomputer [2]. I hope that native applications will make a comeback with the increasing popularity of the compiled programming languages. The internet and cloud are only being used for synchronizing and versioning the application's data over multiple devices rather then online data processing due to inherent limitations of remote bandwidth and latency that's not suited for majority of desktop applications. [1]https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/best-video-editors/ https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/best-video-editors/ [2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Origin_2000 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Origin_2000

teleforce 6y ago

This. I'm not sure how many more years people will eventually realize that web is originally invented for sharing documents over the decentralized internet and not really suited for other type of applications. The proliferation of app-over-web is really pushing it including the online web based video editing [1]. Off course the online companies are loving the status quo since they can sell us advertisements and perhaps our data as well in exchange for online free software, or the dreaded "pay-forever" subscription based software. I agree it's really convenient to go gung-ho all-web but how long can you survive by continuously eating fast food diets? With cheap off-the-shelf multi-core CPU (latest 64 cores/128 threads), terabytes SSD, and terabytes RAM (including the new Optane non volatile memory) the modern laptop/PC is even more powerful than twenty years ago supercomputer [2]. I hope that native applications will make a comeback with the increasing popularity of the compiled programming languages. The internet and cloud are only being used for synchronizing and versioning the application's data over multiple devices rather then online data processing due to inherent limitations of remote bandwidth and latency that's not suited for majority of desktop applications. [1]https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/best-video-editors/ https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/best-video-editors/ [2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Origin_2000 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Origin_2000