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Re:Nix on the Steam Deck by unixhero on Friday December 23, 2022 @02:27AM (#34103166)
The desktop is almost dead beyond corporate.
Re:Nix on the Steam Deck by fragmede on Friday December 23, 2022 @03:01AM (#34103369)
Which is an interesting shift in the situation, but I don't think corporations are going anywhere.
Re:Nix on the Steam Deck by vladvasiliu on Friday December 23, 2022 @05:37AM (#34104292)
More and more corporations use some kind of on-line SaaS software. Those only need browsers.

What's funny, is that for a long time MS Office was one of the reasons why enterprises would stick with Windows. But now, with Office365, the web experience is better than the installed-app, one. I understand "more advanced" features aren't there yet. As someone fairly basic, I have no idea what those are, but from what I see most people do in Excel, it's just basically an easy way to get a table. That works fine on the web version.

There's also the tendency of locking down workstations, by installing all kinds of detection agents, usually billed per node.

With the two combined, I would expect more and more companies to switch to some kind of dumb terminal, that would only show a browser.

Sure, this would probably not work well for everybody, but for many office workers it would likely be perfect. Hell, even for developers, with all the "remote dev" things coming out lately.

Re:Nix on the Steam Deck by pjmlp on Friday December 23, 2022 @03:07AM (#34103398)
Until 3D Web APIs stop being 10 years behind native ones, the desktop has a safe future.
Re:Nix on the Steam Deck by cjbgkagh on Friday December 23, 2022 @09:26AM (#34106121)
This is my biggest gripe with WebDev, followed by thread limits.
Re:Nix on the Steam Deck by esjeon on Friday December 23, 2022 @03:20AM (#34103471)
The traditional desktop is dead, but we’re getting app-based desktops - something look similar, but with completely different ecosystem from developer to consumer.