The drop in desktop sales has a lot more to do with the speed of technology than an evolution away from local storage. The fact is we are no longer at a point where a 4 year old desktop is an antique, machines can be usable now for 6 to 8 years easy. Gone are the days when a new CPU comes out every couple of years that immediately renders all others obsolete. Heck most people probably couldn’t even tell you what their CPU is anymore. Nobody looks forward to replacing their desktop anymore, it’s now an unpleasant task as the latest and greatest isn’t much of an improvement and reinstalling all your software is a chore.
Meanwhile Linux won’t ever be the desktop king because it holds the same brain space as jazz. Jazz is music for hardcore music nerds, Linux is an OS for hardcore computer nerds. The casual audience has no interest in either.
Meanwhile Linux won’t ever be the desktop king because it holds the same brain space as jazz. Jazz is music for hardcore music nerds, Linux is an OS for hardcore computer nerds. The casual audience has no interest in either.
I don't game, nor Photo shop, and I am not a power user nerd.
My use these days is about 95% on line requiring only a RJ45 connection or wifi and a password for those sites. I want to be safely online in seconds not wasting minutes watching some damn blue circle evolving. Also, I don't want to waste 30 minutes each morning downloading bs from MS/IE, forcing me buy a bigger hard disk, and making my PC slower each day.
I don't want so waste a lot of money, time and effort to just get safely on line.
Now with my new View Sonic monitor, HDMI connector cable, and USB wireless keyboard/monitor, my Acer Chromebook 15 is my super fast Chrome Desktop for not that much money.
For my 5-10% time re word processing/personal spreadsheets, my Toshiba 15.6" Win 10 laptop can work in a stand alone Desk Top mode with the same USB keyboard/mouse set up as with my Acer Chromebook by just changing the HDMI cable from the Acer to my Toshiba. If I need to go to the internet, I can access Comcast or Google via my Norton Protected Search and my RJ45 connection, find, read and copy what I need and go back to my archaic MS Works stand alone.