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Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? [video]

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179 points joelkesler | 2 comments | 13 Dec 25 18:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.011s | source
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whatever1 ◴[13 Dec 25 21:57 UTC] No.46258525[source]▶
Desktop is dead. Gamers will move to consoles and Valve-like platforms. Rest of productivity is done on a single window browser anyway. Llms will accelerate this

Coders are the only ones who still should be interested in desktop UX, but even in that segment many just need a terminal window.

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linguae ◴[13 Dec 25 22:02 UTC] No.46258566[source]▶
Is it dead because people don’t want the desktop, or is it dead because Big Tech won’t invest in the desktop beyond what’s necessary for their business?

Whether intentional or not, it seems like the trend is increasingly locked-down devices running locked-down software, and I’m also disturbed by the prospect of Big Tech gobbling up hardware (see the RAM shortage, for example), making it unaffordable for regular people, and then renting this hardware back to us in the form of cloud services.

It’s disturbing and I wish we could stop this.

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1. xnx ◴[13 Dec 25 22:52 UTC] No.46259014[source]▶
Desktop is all about collaboration and interaction with other apps. The ideal of every contemporary SaaS is that you can never download your "files" so you stay locked in.
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2. vjvjvjvjghv ◴[13 Dec 25 23:36 UTC] No.46259303[source]▶
Exactly. Interoperability is not cool anymore. You need to lock users in