Personally: - desktops are now considered "endpoints" or "bootloader for a WebVM" (the monsters improperly named browsers for legacy reasons); - desktop are t

Personally: - desktops are now considered "endpoints" or "bootloader for a WebVM" (the monsters improperly named browsers for legacy reasons); - desktop are the CORE of computing, as long as they are classic networked desktops, meaning a single application, user programmable as a NORMAL usage, like modern Emacs or classic Smalltalk workstations; - modern desktop OS, both FLOSS and commercials are CRAP, simply because they are things designed with a bad idea in mind. Many from OSX to Gnome SHell (the second capital not a typo) tend to be narcissistic putting at the user sight center the least useful thing "the WM/DE/DS" or the element that should just be used to handle apps and files; - Windows recently in UI terms have copied some logic FLOSS design, being a bit more usable, things like a reasonable context menu and so on, but it's plagued by the commercial push of ads and nagware anywhere, OSX seems to be an essentially dead product the vendor keep just to have "a complete offer" but they do not want desktop computing, they want grown slaves/child able just to touch a colorful screen with their fingers, FLOSS plethora of WMs tend to be static, only something have happened to the tiling WM landscape, GNU/Linux DE/DS (since tied to systemd) like Kde or Gnome SHell have essentially no idea on how to evolve anymore; - in applications terms most apps remain in their legacy state or they tend to became DocUIs without being real DocUIs so mimicking WebUIs, becoming monsters to overcome the biggest modern desktop problem, the fact that for commercial reasons we do not have anymore a single application as an OS, meaning the lack of integration with the sole possible IPCs like cut&paste and drag&drop. Until FLOSS devs realize what we lost embracing modern commercial desktop there will be no chance to recover, the desktop future remain the sorry state of a crappy WebVM bootloader where the user can't even handle it's files much, can't even own information in files (with storage dedicated to specific apps instead of generic files usable with many different tools).