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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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