Frankly the article reads like a wet dream of some wishful thinker.
Last Phase of the Desktop Wars?
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#12> Linux finally wins the desktop wars
ChromeOS is storming along - best desktop version of linux around. If I could easily run IntellJ on it I would switch.
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#13Many, many enterprises still pay Microsoft billions of dollars in licenses for Windows and Office to run Excel ‘apps’ powered by VB macros. Until that has need has diminished, I really doubt Microsoft will give up their NT kernel. At least not on corporate land, maybe for consumers.
I wonder if this is why the online versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint remain so terrible. Online Word can't even grok some very simple types of formatting done in native Word.
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#14So, 2020 might be the year of Linux on the Desktop after all.
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#15I suspect the reason is much more simple: it is more profitable for Microsoft to be platform agnostic. If that means supporting Linux, so be it. That does not mean they are going to abandon Windows, nor does it mean that they are going to reinvent Windows as a layer on top of Linux. It just means that they aren't picky about what their revenues are derived from.
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#16> Linux finally wins the desktop wars ChromeOS is storming along - best desktop version of linux around. If I could easily run IntellJ on it I would switch.
>best linux distro around. If I could easily run IntellJ on it I would switch.
It's not a Distro.
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#17> Linux finally wins the desktop wars ChromeOS is storming along - best desktop version of linux around. If I could easily run IntellJ on it I would switch.
You can't run it in crostini?
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#18I'm buying a new computer. Currently I have only ubuntu linux machines and was just saying to someone that I would actually consider trying windows and WSL because it would let me use the linux tools I want alongside MS office, and it might be interesting to play with windows versions of things. The reason I wont actually do it though is because I'm sure that windows will be filled with commercially oriented intrusions and annoyances that I don't see in linux. I admit I am hypersensitive to that kind of thing, but getting reminders and popups from the task bar etc destroys my concentration. Maybe there is a way to shut all that down but I always felt like windows was bothering me about stuff a lot more than linux ever does.
Solve that and I may be a convert.
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#19This argument totally ignores Microsoft’s consideration of what might happen after that endgame-state, and what utility (if any) it would have for them. Specifically, Microsoft would have everything to lose if it placed all of the Windows-like APIs into their Linux kernel, even if that were in the interests of “de-complexifying” their Azure business, because after that they’d be on par with every other Cloud/PaaS provider and they’d be outcompeted on cost by the likes of Amazon Web Services.
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#20> Linux finally wins the desktop wars ChromeOS is storming along - best desktop version of linux around. If I could easily run IntellJ on it I would switch.
>best linux distro around. If I could easily run IntellJ on it I would switch. It's not a Distro.
You're right, I've amended.