Originally posted by tildearrow
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There are still areas of industry, where specialized software is needed, which demand lots of power and require low latency for good experience,.. these will remain as tools, for long time. For example, photography, video-editing, software development, CAD,..
However, the most common workloads converge to:
- web-based information systems for internal purposes,
- web-pages and web-applications for interaction with public and client,
- email for communication,
- shared drives to exchange big files,
- ms/libre office documents.
So, in the end, everything converges to having only few tools acting as clients for: HTTP(S), IMAP+SMPT, and optionally some (S)FTP or NFS.
And, for private use, it's usually: facebook, twitter, gmail, google drive.
Yep,.. desktop becomes more-or-less obsolete. Many old-school people still cling to desktop, as they feel need to be able to install anything they want. However, young people, not using their computer for special demanding areas, doesn't feel need to have desktop. So, chromebooks would become reality, soon.
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