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> Will this ever end? It remains an interesting question. Is there any way to reclaim the autonomy and ethos of freedom from the earlier part of the digital er
by post_below 6y ago
> Will this ever end?
It remains an interesting question. Is there any way to reclaim the autonomy and ethos of freedom from the earlier part of the digital era?
I'm not sure how that would look. I don't mean in terms of a set of hardware and software solutions.
I mean technology that's actually for the end users, available to everyone with curiosity as the only barrier to entry. It sounds like a utopian delusion even though it existed not so long ago.
I'm not sure there's a realistic way to get there from here. I'd love to be wrong about that though.
- judge2020 6y agoWindows has been the mainstream OS for nearly 25 years (probably more, had a hard time getting good historical stats). The desktop has never been free, just simpler and less 'rent seeking after the fact'. https://www.cnet.com/news/windows-95-remains-most-popular-operating-system/ https://www.cnet.com/news/windows-95-remains-most-popular-op...
- post_below 6y agoI suppose I should have added basic equipment as a barrier to entry, it seemed self evident as I was writing. Edit: I think you could call Windows mainstream (or becoming dominant) around version 3, maybe a bit before. So that's over 30 years.