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> How does slightly improved laptop hardware relate to re-invigorating desktop software? If Arm SystemReady laptops with good performance/watt have an open sec
by walterbell 3y ago
> How does slightly improved laptop hardware relate to re-invigorating desktop software?
If Arm SystemReady laptops with good performance/watt have an open security foundation (declarative, immutable OS at EL2) to support multiple competing "app store" equivalents on Linux, the resulting revenue and competitive market can reward innovative desktop software - open, closed or hybrid. Without an Apple tax on storage and memory, funds can be redirected to a competitive market of smaller ISVs.
- talldayo 3y ago> the resulting revenue and competitive market can reward innovative desktop software - open, closed or hybrid. Outside of Steam, not a single software distributor (including Canonical) has been able to do this. Linux succeeds in spite of everything you mentioned and none of it would particularly enable the sort of experience you're describing.