Re: The joy of Linux

186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:

On 11/5/24 8:53 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Yes, but they are no longer the goto for an IT illiterate consumer.
 
A desktop workstation is in use by people in business, by designers,
and by hard core realtime 3D gamers.
 
Everything else has gone touchy-feely-crappy.

 
  'PCs' are heavily 'game' oriented now.
 
  With gigabit+ internet in many places MOST ordinary/biz
  users can get by with the "thin terminal" model. All the
  real work is done "out there" on some corps supercluster.

"Most users" switched to the "thin terminal" model long before gigabit+
internet was available in many places.

Every single cell phone and tablet is a "thin terminal", in two
meanings of "thin":

1) acts as little more than a display for actual computation which is
performed on a central, shared, computer;

2) is "thin" as in "measures a small amount of depth" :)

There are a great many users for whom their *only* computing device is
a cell phone or tablet.  Every one of them is already firmly in the
"thin terminal" camp.

The "touchy-feely-crappy" (i.e., cell phone/tablet) (as TNP puts it)
appeals to the IT illiterate because it seems easier to use.  And
there's a whole lot more IT illiterate in this world than there are
even moderately IT literate folks.