You might boot laptops straight into a cloud OS in the future
    • Duxon@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      With Chromebooks? ChromeOS is a pretty solid Linux distro if you’d ask me. It is built around cloud-sync and Google Drive, but otherwise perfectly fine to use offline. Even Steam is supported nowadays

  • flakusha@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Typical loop in this case:

    • Oh, M$ is so disgusting, I never gonna switch to the new platform!

    In a few months/years

    • Well, my apps/hardware are not working, time to switch anyway. Not because it’s not working anymore, but because the platform is mature and I actually like it.
    • MachineTeaching@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      We’ve seen this spiel a few times, companies want to move to the cloud and then don’t because it’s ridiculous and plenty of things are just fine on local machines.

      I don’t lend this any more credence than all the “we’ll all be gaming in the cloud in 10 years” crap when stuff like GeForce Now was popping up.

    • LoreleiSankTheShip@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Or switch to Linux and never look back. I’ve been using it for close to 4 years now and the only time I almost miss Windows is when having to make a PowerPoint presentation. Everything else is better on Linux, including gaming.

      • ShrimpsIsBugs@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Same here. Also with the PowerPoint problem. For everything else there are perfect replacements but the Libre office alternative for power point is a joke