I speak only for myself, but my 'dev' environment more or less amounts to the operating system in its entirety, with access to programs like image viewers, vect

I speak only for myself, but my 'dev' environment more or less amounts to the operating system in its entirety, with access to programs like image viewers, vector graphics editing (i.e. making websites). I still find gnome useful for manipulating files from time to time. I wonder if the future of these ready-to-go development environments will be more like full-featured operating systems (Paperspace) that offer a whole machine in the cloud? Of course this would be a niche case but Google already has CitC images of Gubuntu that they use to avoid similar onboarding setups.