Remote desktop vs. remote display [LWN.net]

Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 25, 2013 14:59 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Remote desktop vs. remote display by Cyberax
Parent article: LCA: The ways of Wayland

So... we should ditch Linux on the desktop because Windows works fine for the majority of users who don't want to *do* much with their computers?

That's logical.

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Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 25, 2013 16:49 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

That just about sums it up. For the 'classic' desktop Linux only, of course. It's clear that it won't be able to capture a significant marketshare from Windows without some pretty drastic changes in development process throughout the whole stack. And these changes are not going to happen.

On the other hand, moving from the areas where Linux is a strong contender into 'desktopy' segments seems to be a better strategy.

Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 25, 2013 18:26 UTC (Mon) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

I think there's always room for another Mac OSX, in no way dominant but carving out a significant and sustainable market share. I think a similar strategy would work as well, selling a small number of boutique devices as a profit to fund development on a constrained set of hardware. Canonical could maybe pull it off if they could focus on one thing but I think Google has a better chance with their Chrome books which seem to be doing OK.

Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Feb 25, 2013 20:57 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

I think there's always room for another Mac OSX, in no way dominant but carving out a significant and sustainable market share.

I'm not so sure. Mac OSX is only sustainable because Apple sells hundreds of millions iPods and iPhones. It's not a sustainable as a purely desktop OS. And I'm not sure even large companies (like RedHat) have enough money to pour in the development of Mac OSX alternative.

Canonical could maybe pull it off if they could focus on one thing but I think Google has a better chance with their Chrome books which seem to be doing OK.

These are no yet sustainable by itself: they are somewhat popular but you can't develop software for ChromeOS on ChromeOS. Give it few years and situation may change, though.

Remote desktop vs. remote display

Posted Mar 11, 2013 9:34 UTC (Mon) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]

> but you can't develop software for ChromeOS on ChromeOS.

In theory, you develop it for the web and run it on a server an it "just works" on chromeos... and anywhere else there's a reasonably current browser. Yes, as always with the web there's some issues with portability on the advanced stuff, but it's still far more portable than stuff written to a local system api.