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<p>That was my thinking as we move closer to more SaaS offerings
(think MYOB is already), on-premise SMB applications will be the
exception. Therefore ChromeOS and others will take off more. The
end user interface needs to be intuitive and its something a lot
companies get wrong in websites and basic applications never mind
OS GUI's. One of the major hurdles is MS office, trying to get end
users off office is like pulling teeth. Personally I think
Open/Libre Office and G Suite do everything you need, but still
see a lot of resistance. <br>
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<p>Wish Samsung DeX worked with more devices to your point around
mobiles (e.g. adopted chromecast to cast).<br>
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<p>-Shaun<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/04/2022 1:29 pm, Onno Benschop
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<div dir="auto">Well, not all that long ago there was a dominant
operating system for mobile phones, Symbian. That was
obliterated by Android and iOS.
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<div dir="auto">I can see a future where your desktop computer
is your mobile phone, thus running either of those two
operating systems, one of which is Linux.<br>
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any errors in this scra^Hibble<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 9 Apr 2022, 11:29
Thomas Cuthbert, <<a href="mailto:tcuthbert90@gmail.com"
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<div dir="auto">I'm sure if there was money to be made in this
market, Linux vendors would target it. I don't think there
is, so not worth investing time and mind. I do not see Linux
ever being useful as a consumer computing platform. The
minimum level of computing literacy required to be
productive is too high for the general population, who
aren't emotionally attached to technology, they just want
things to work and perform the functions they paid for.
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<div dir="auto">Microsoft and Apple win here because they
aren't run by a committee and beholden on external
technology stakeholders.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 8 Apr 2022, 4:40
pm Onno Benschop, <<a href="mailto:onno@itmaze.com.au"
target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div dir="auto">The discussion here around SOE and
different levels of support by Red Hat and others leads
me to start a conversation around users who are not part
of a corporate office, the people whom I generally work
with, the small and micro businesses, the ones that
account for most of the GDP in the country, the ones
that are by enlarge shackled to the Microsoft ecosystem,
where rebooting for regular updates is "normal", where
antivirus software is a source of revenue for suppliers,
but has absolutely no value for the person paying, where
backups are done on a decade old USB stick that may or
may not be actually working, where offsite means in your
backpack or bedside table at home.
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<div dir="auto">I'm not talking about the semi computer
literate people, some of whom might dabble with Linux
on the side, I'm taking about businesses that are
required to use MYOB because that's what their
accountant uses.</div>
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<div dir="auto">What I want to know is what is being
done about those people?</div>
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<div dir="auto">What's being done for students using
their first serious computer?</div>
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<div dir="auto">What about the local corner store that
uses excel to track stock, or the farmer who has a
bunch of worksheets to track their stock breeding
program?</div>
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<div dir="auto">What is being done about those people?
How are people like Red Hat, Canonical and others
working towards those people?<br>
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What are YOU doing about it?<br>
<div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">--<br>
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apologies for any errors in this scra^Hibble<br>
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()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno..</div>
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