Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks

Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday June 01, 2018 @06:33PM (#17211048)

> I understand that many windows users are far from power users and the forced updates provide security updates

I think this largely was only true of the period between the internet becoming a thing and the smartphone becoming a thing. Nowadays there's phones, tablets, and chromebooks that serve the needs of those people better and in a more convenient form factor. Desktops are for people who do work, create stuff, or are hobbiests.

I think a lot of the reasons computers suck today is because of this idea that they need to cater to some strawman drooling moron of a user.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by gsich on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:18PM (#17211363)

Those devices only take you so far. They are consuming devices only, similar to a television. People still have and use normal PCs and will do so in the future. (Notebooks included of course)

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday June 01, 2018 @07:35PM (#17211471)

That's kinda my point though. The strawman user these kinds of arguments prop up as the reason everything needs to suck is pretty much 100% consumer. There might be a few things, like typing documents and printing that aren't entirely covered by smartphones, tablets, and chromebooks, but that's a rapidly shrinking set of things.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by gsich on Friday June 01, 2018 @08:02PM (#17211621)

>but that's a rapidly shrinking set of things

Doubt that. "Desktop" is defined by mouse, keyboard and display. A chromebook satisfies this. I have yet to meet a user who uses a smartphone instead of a PC to do stuff that are notably easier to do on a PC. (while having both)

I would also bet that every user would chose a keyboard over a touch interface to type text.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday June 01, 2018 @11:02PM (#17212420)

Maybe you have a point, but I don't feel like connecting a bluetooth keyboard and mouse to a smartphone makes it a desktop. Regardless, I don't think those OSs are good desktop OSs either. I still maintain that this is a poor excuse for having shitty tools.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by lev99 on Saturday June 02, 2018 @12:06AM (#17212612)

Using keyboard/mouse/monitor with smartphones is very uncommon.

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