Re:YouOS (winter 07) shutting down?
by rokhayakebe on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @03:06PM
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What can you do on a Windows PC that you cannot if you have access to a browser on a Linux based computer?
As of today, play high performance games.
There's a good argument for buying a games console.
Re:YouOS (winter 07) shutting down?
by rokhayakebe on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @06:12PM
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You can do it on the web. You just cannot do it better.
... Just like an application written for an O/S will always be slower than a custom written application which runs straight on the hardware with no O/S.
It depends on your definition of O/S, and what you think it should do.
The distinction is important to make, because it demonstrates both the web's greatest advantage (the fact that it can reach across many computers at once) and its greatest weakness (it will always be slower than the desktop equivalents).