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Looking forward to the day when the pendulum swings back to personal computing rather than a terminal session on someone else's computer
by iso1631 4y ago
Looking forward to the day when the pendulum swings back to personal computing rather than a terminal session on someone else's computer
- thatguy0900 4y agoI'm not convinced that's a pendulum that will swing. There's a lot of big money trying to keep it up
- bell-cot 4y agoYou mean like back in 1987 - when Joe D. User could install MS-DOS from a couple floppy disks, then WordPerfect and Lotus 123 similarly, then just use his PC for years - withOUT knowing what Windows Registry entries, security patches, spam, phishing e-mails, virii, typosquatted domain names, SaaS, etc., etc., etc. were? Let alone having to regularly pour time & grief into dealing with those? That I am aware of, every one of my family members who has retired in the past 15 years was stuck using MS Windows at work. Every one of them has been happy to delete MS and Windows from their life - getting rid of their home computer, buying an Apple iPad, and running their modest on-line lives from that iPad.