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The web is not an OS. The web is a layer that operates through an OS. The distinction is important to make, because it demonstrates both the web's greatest adv
by unalone 18y ago
The web is not an OS. The web is a layer that operates through an OS.
The distinction is important to make, because it demonstrates both the web's greatest advantage (the fact that it can reach across many computers at once) and its greatest weakness (it will always be slower than the desktop equivalents).
- axod 18y ago... Just like an application written for an O/S will always be slower than a custom written application which runs straight on the hardware with no O/S. It depends on your definition of O/S, and what you think it should do.
- rokhayakebe 18y agoWhat can you do on a Windows PC that you cannot if you have access to a browser on a Linux based computer?
- ashu 18y agoAs of today, play high performance games.
- axod 18y agoThere's a good argument for buying a games console.
- rokhayakebe 18y agoYou can do it on the web. You just cannot do it better.