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Ask Slashdot: Could Android and iOS Become Popular Desktop Operating Systems?
dryriver writes: For many older people, you use Windows, macOS, or Linux on the desktop, and Android or iOS on mobile devices. Nobody is screaming for an Android desktop PC or an iOS 17.3-inch laptop computer. But what about younger generations growing up, from a very young age, glued to devices with these two mobile operating systems running on it? Will they want to use Windows, macOS, or Linux just like us old farts when they grow older, or will they want their favorite mobile operating systems running -- in a beefed up and more robust form -- on desktop and laptop computers which they use for school, college, and/or work as well? Since we are on this topic -- could Android or iOS one day become reasonably usable desktop operating systems from an architectural standpoint? And could Google and Apple already be planning for an "Android and iOS on the desktop" computing future, without telling anyone about it publicly?
You will use the OS where your apps work best. No matter what that is. The OS really does not matter except for security. The software matters to get shit done.
https://blogs.autodesk.com/autocad/autodesk-brings-core-desktop-engine-autocad-ipad/
AutoCAD was featured at Appleâ(TM)s keynote eventâin Brooklyn, New York, where Apple introduced the new iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.
âoeFor the first time, Autodesk will be bringing the desktop engine of AutoCAD to the iPad. This will allow customers to view and edit files that contain hundreds of thousands of objects that you see here with performance as fast as the fastest PCs.â
Fuchsia is Google's NIH solution to the Linux kernel. They got tired of running their own custom fork (because it takes effort to merge) and thought it might be easier to make their own kernel. It's mainly a kernel.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."