Thanks [member=6925]Artim[/member], well put indeed. Linux does need formidable Office style suite.
We have spoken of the tech perspective a little bit, so now perhaps we could focus on some more casual one.
With things moving to the cloud gradually and the world becoming more WEB native - high-speed Internet dependent - the main thing of profit, thinking of the OS, would be for the desktop environment to pose intuitive likeness to any other popular desktop environment, so that people could catch up easily. The less the adaptation trouble, the faster the user can simply do whatever needed, with the web browser under online connection, being perhaps the primary destination, which ought to pose the least amount of adaptation trouble. The Internet is not dependent on the local OS of a user, definitive majority of cases, therefore why should the local OS or any browser related specifics, pose any trouble to the access or the fair usage of Internet?
Internet, is communication and without the communication, there is neither civilization, nor any notion of freedom. Even if the concept of 'freedom' is rooted mainly in the culture, which is the world 'software', as opposed to 'hardware' - there is no valid software without valid hardware, technologically speaking.
Again, even in our enlightened contemporary days, there is not much freedom without money. Think about it.
What made my transition from Windows10 to LinuxLite easier, was the direct communication between Chrome and Chromium, which allowed me to automagically teleport my actual stuff from Windows canvas to Linux canvas, without any fuss whatsoever. I have already stated couple of times that the single most important program on my PC, is the web browser. I very rarely do anything locally. Installing stuff feels like making a mess, after which I almost compulsively need to do cleanup. I do know web browsers download stuff, but their management of downloaded contents, is far more 'hygienic' than allowing anything run wild and leave garbage.
But these speculations are all blind shots. Mobile technology has won the race. Large machines of any kind gradually fade down to the favour only of those inclined, which nonetheless is still impressive demographics, minding how many of the younger generation are well tech inclined. But the mobile technology, has taken the world by storm and it seems the mobile tech, corresponds very well with machine learning and automatization of various kinds, such as - for example - a well working recommendations system, which saves a mobile tech user browsing through enormous amounts of content on a device unintended for interface precision.
There are only two ways to go, then. One is massive consumerism and being slave to trends, the other is relative, possibly self imposed, poverty, sometimes without even the notion of do-it-yourself solution.
We have spoken of the tech perspective a little bit, so now perhaps we could focus on some more casual one.
With things moving to the cloud gradually and the world becoming more WEB native - high-speed Internet dependent - the main thing of profit, thinking of the OS, would be for the desktop environment to pose intuitive likeness to any other popular desktop environment, so that people could catch up easily. The less the adaptation trouble, the faster the user can simply do whatever needed, with the web browser under online connection, being perhaps the primary destination, which ought to pose the least amount of adaptation trouble. The Internet is not dependent on the local OS of a user, definitive majority of cases, therefore why should the local OS or any browser related specifics, pose any trouble to the access or the fair usage of Internet?
Internet, is communication and without the communication, there is neither civilization, nor any notion of freedom. Even if the concept of 'freedom' is rooted mainly in the culture, which is the world 'software', as opposed to 'hardware' - there is no valid software without valid hardware, technologically speaking.
Again, even in our enlightened contemporary days, there is not much freedom without money. Think about it.
What made my transition from Windows10 to LinuxLite easier, was the direct communication between Chrome and Chromium, which allowed me to automagically teleport my actual stuff from Windows canvas to Linux canvas, without any fuss whatsoever. I have already stated couple of times that the single most important program on my PC, is the web browser. I very rarely do anything locally. Installing stuff feels like making a mess, after which I almost compulsively need to do cleanup. I do know web browsers download stuff, but their management of downloaded contents, is far more 'hygienic' than allowing anything run wild and leave garbage.
But these speculations are all blind shots. Mobile technology has won the race. Large machines of any kind gradually fade down to the favour only of those inclined, which nonetheless is still impressive demographics, minding how many of the younger generation are well tech inclined. But the mobile technology, has taken the world by storm and it seems the mobile tech, corresponds very well with machine learning and automatization of various kinds, such as - for example - a well working recommendations system, which saves a mobile tech user browsing through enormous amounts of content on a device unintended for interface precision.
There are only two ways to go, then. One is massive consumerism and being slave to trends, the other is relative, possibly self imposed, poverty, sometimes without even the notion of do-it-yourself solution.