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I have been in IT for 30 years. This has been a recurring theme for at least 20 of those years. It has gone by different names but the idea hasn’t changed. Web technology has come a long way but there are too many developers still writing traditional apps to kill the OS completely. While new greenfield apps may be web first, most of the corporate world is running on legacy apps that are tied to the OS.
Still requires some sort of background software to render the pixels of the text, decode the video and audio, etc.
Web apps don't come with all that, they call on the operating system to do those things.
Of course, but my thinking is sort of that for example, when it comes to Linux distros, there's no longer any meaningful difference even between Ubuntu or Fedora or Arch for casual users; since applications now tend to be containerised or be web-based. Distro choice may not relevant afterwards.
Distro choice doesn't actually matter in any regard other than convenience, you can make any distro into any other distro by simply changing packages and modifying configs, the kernel is what matters.
Obligatory: containerisation is bloat, electron is bloat.
Fundamentally, that's true. Of course the average user isn't going to think or probably even know what a kernel is, nor I'm unsure if they even have to.
I'm not a technical expert, but while containerisation is bloat, it's modularity is a plus, I think. Conceptually I like it.
one program I work with every day looks like it was first built for windows 95. IT so old we have to skip the Java update notification or else it will break the program.
Sheesh. But I guess the thinking is that if it works, then why change it, right?
So you don't see traditional native apps running on specific OSes or even cross-OSes as being obsolete for quite some time?