>Looking back, I feel like this trend of less aesthetic configurability has diminished the sense of user ownership from the computer experience, part of the gen

>Looking back, I feel like this trend of less aesthetic configurability has diminished the sense of user ownership from the computer experience, part of the general trend of the death of “personal computing”. This, and end of story. What's personalized today are things like the extensions for your browser and your Google account. OSs are becoming terminals.