I’m not proposing anything here, I’m curious what you all think of the future.
What is your vision for what you want Linux to be?
I often read about wanting a smooth desktop experience like on MacOS, or having all the hardware and applications supported like Windows, or the convenience of Google products (mail, cloud storage, docs), etc.
A few years ago people were talking about convergence of phone/desktop, i.e. you plug your phone into a big screen and keyboard and it’s now your desktop computer. That’s one vision. ChromeOS has its “everything is in the cloud” vision. Stallman has his vision where no matter what it is, the most important part is that it’s free software.
If you could decide the future of personal computing, what would it be?
I never thought of it as a directed or steered consistent and homogeneous movement of Linux/FOSS etc.
Personally I think the future is, hardware wise, for personal computing use on the phone=pc direction.
Most of my personal stuff i do is on having everything synced (thx syncthing) using sustainable file standards.
And looking at my phone its close to my budget pc hardware wise, so not that far from becoming reality.
But I think FOSS does have a hard time pushing for this on the software side. Its not that simple to provide interoperability etc. For additional devices and specific hardware configs.
Based on my working environment I think the cloud will be the future. However in this realm proprietary software will be the inevitable winner here.
I never got the hinge on mac os. So I have no opinion on that one.