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The desktop PC market is dominated by three factors: MS Office, other large proprietary software (like CAD), and games. The games segment is being slowly chipp
by nine_k 2y ago
The desktop PC market is dominated by three factors: MS Office, other large proprietary software (like CAD), and games.
The games segment is being slowly chipped away by things like the Steam console, with the Wine / Proton layer also runnable under normal desktop Linux.
The rest is very likely stuck "forever". Maybe the CAD software, and other third-party software, will run adequately under Wine one day; MSO likely never will, at least not legally.
- tyingq 2y agoI suspect at some point they will figure out how to make things like CAD and MS office run well enough in a browser that the native apps die. I get it's hard to see that now given that web app versions of things like Office are terrible.