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I'll bite. Why are graphical user interfaces not the future? They're certainly the past and the present.
by Veuxdo 4y ago
I'll bite. Why are graphical user interfaces not the future? They're certainly the past and the present.
- dtx1 4y agoThe sad future is, the browser is the new desktop gui.
- dymk 4y agoI think that’s the present (electron apps have been all the rage for the last few years), but maybe not the future. There’s much effort being put into native-ish GUI programming in recent years such as Godot and Druid.
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoWhy do you think Chrome OS isn’t more successful then? (Outside of specific markets like education.)
- usrn 4y agoThe Walmart near me stopped selling Windows PCs and only sells Chromebooks. ChromeOS is extremely successful.
- iLoveOncall 4y ago2% marketshare despite the incredible pricing, but ok.
- usrn 4y agoFor an OS most of us would consider useless that's been around for maybe a quarter of the time desktop Linux has been and half the time OSX has 2% is pretty impressive. As to the pricing, it's not like Desktop Linux doesn't work very well on cheap hardware either. OS popularity comes down to social things like PR (especially with children) and has little to do with merit.
- iLoveOncall 4y ago> For an OS most of us would consider useless It's almost as if readers of HackerNews aren't the target audience of ChromeOS. > As to the pricing, it's not like Desktop Linux doesn't work very well on cheap hardware either. It's almost as if potential Linux users aren't the target audience of ChromeOS.
- iLoveOncall 4y agoThe present? The very vast majority of applications are ran in the browser nowadays.
- willis936 4y agoWhich run command lines? Godot can export to web. https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/export/exporting_for_web.html https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/export/expo...
- biryani_chicken 4y agoThe docker desktop one for instance.