Mike StoneJun 27, 2023

Microsoft wants to stream your OS to you. Ignoring the whole "Microsoft" angle on this, I personally hate this idea. I miss the days when a computer was a standalone device that COULD connect to the Internet, but didn't have to. These days, so many things DEPEND on having that connection, and just flat out won't work without it. Maybe I'm a stodgy old guy, but can't we go back? I want my computer to with exactly the same online or offline.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/27/23775117/microsoft-windows-11-cloud-consumer-strategy

Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud

Microsoft’s long-term ambition with Windows is to move the OS to the cloud. Windows 365 is just the beginning on the commercial side, with plans to get consumers into a cloud version of Windows eventually.

The Verge
Show threadMichael A. Murphy 

@mike You can still have that experience with Linux, so regardless what Microsoft does with their OS, the door to Linux is always open.

That said, if Microsoft were to do this, then technically they are going full circle to the way we used computers in the 1950s. Thin clients connected to a mainframe.

It's even one of the features of X11 that people have used against Wayland adoption in recent years, which is now resolved and solutions like RustDesk exist.

Jun 27, 2023 at 6:57pmWeb
Show threadTheron Morgan-BrownJun 27, 2023
@mmstick @mike Maybe if they take it all to the cloud Linux users will be able to buy PCs from major manufacturers again without having to pay the Windows tax :)
Show threaddeFraidJun 27, 2023
@mmstick @mike linux is massively dependent on network availability though, with workarounds ok, but massively
Show threadMichael A. Murphy Jun 27, 2023
@defred @mike Weird. I can install Linux, log in, install applications from USB, use them, and access all my files without a network connection. Sure, you can't browse the web and download things while offline, but that doesn't make it massively dependent.
Show threadUrsidinoj/The BjornsdottirsJun 28, 2023
@defred @mmstick @mike *brings a tape containing the entire xbps archive* you rang?
Show threadYoraJun 28, 2023
@defred @mmstick @mike That's just not true.
Unless you want to download a new program or update one, everything works perfectly fine without a connection.
Show threaddeFraidJun 28, 2023
@Yora @mmstick @mike allrite allrite, normal and comfortable use of GNU/linux is network dependent. Better ?