GNU + Linux - The Future Part 3

“I’m interested in the future, because that is where I am going to spend the rest of my life”

Linux has a place in the enterprise server
Linux owns the cloud and the web
Linux own the IoT space (we didn’t talk about this one)
Linux runs at the heart of containers

One thing is for sure, we may not know what new technological needs will be 30 years down the road, but I think Linux will be at the heart of that new idea

Where I think Linux needs to work on is the Desktop

Microsoft has begun the move from the traditional desktop to the cloud with their Windows 365 Cloud PC.

Apple announced their XCode for Developers in the Cloud which offers a cloud based application in addition to the Desktop version of XCode.

The question is will Microsoft and Apple move their operating system entirely to the cloud

There is a need for a traditional desktop, not all applications are good candidates for use in a cloud only platform. The other thing is Linux is not controlled by a corporate (yet) that could mandate the move to the cloud, unless its one of the big 4 who does it.

If Windows and MacOS moved to the cloud, that would leave Linux as the last OS standing as a traditional desktop environment.

The application space has changed rapidly on linux already with the introduction and adoption of snaps and flatpaks. AppImages is there too but probably but the size of the applications seems to be holding it back for now.

Last is the Desktop Environments themselves, none of them offers a modern (I know GNOME thinks so) UI which a user coming from MacOS or Windows would find similar to the one they left.

New UI Kits like Flutter and MauiKit may offer the way to solve this problem as they get deployed to the mobile phone and tablet workspaces. Both of these technologies offer a way to easily move between screens and in the case of MauiKit, it offers a means to run on all major operating systems as well.

Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:20 - GNU + Linux Future
00:32 - Quote
00:41 - Linux Server Success
01:20 - ChromeOS
02:12 - Windows 365 Cloud PC
03:35 - MacOS in the Cloud
06:13 - Linux Desktop in the Cloud
06:53 - Fees for Cloud Access
07:36 - The Year of the Linux Desktop
08:53 - Linux Apps
09:45 - Application spaces
10:25 - Flutter
10:59 - MauiKit
12:20 - Maui Shell (early look)
14:24 - Final Thoughts
16:00 - Wrapup

Attribution: Microsoft Windows 365 Cloud PC ad

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