Re: Brace for glitches and GRUB grumbles as Ubuntu 24.04.1 lands

On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 07:26:57 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On 11 Sep 2024 05:23:54 GMT, rbowman wrote:
 

IBM's model was always big iron with dumb terminals, thin clients, or
whatever you want to call it. Pretty much the entire Chromebook design
is the same. Desktops are getting to be the same.

 
I keep wondering about that. The obvious difference is, a Chromebook is
built around a web browser, which is the single most complex piece of
software that normal people use on a daily basis. Dumb terminals were
never like that.

It's true the ADM-3A wasn't a mental giant but it wasn't bad for a
straight TTL design. Even the VT100 with its 8080 processor didn't do
much.

The web browser approach poses an interesting question. Leaving out Apple
and their trailing edge WebKit,  V8/Blink is dominant. V8 by itself is
sued in Electron, Node.js, and a long list of browsers. They are all cross
platform. Brave doesn't care if it's on Linux or Windows. VS Code uses
Electron, so it doesn't care either. x86 ARM, or even MIPS, no problem.

You might see where this is going. For many people the OS becomes
irrelevant.