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Most popular 'real' desktop will soon be the Linux desktop (www.theregister.com)

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Article talks about thin clients and cloud computing taking over

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

why does everything need to be in the cloud? it's so annoying, just let me have my own computer with my own storage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"You will own nothing and you will be happy" or something

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They want to sell cloud services while also eliminating piracy. There's no way you can pirate a subscription based service unless you directly hack their server.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Bingo. Easy DRM. You will own nothing bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Seriously. I just want to be able to play Skyrim when the ISP shits the bed like they do every week.