When was the last time you used a desktop?
For most people, their smartphone is their computer, and (globally) Android is the top used one. Android is a version of Linux, so every year for quite a while has been the Year of the Linux “desktop”.
OSX was never really open sourced. If you tried compiling it, you’d have found it wouldn’t work because it was incomplete.
Vulkan has hacked in support, but not official support. It’s like saying that because I can hack in Flash on macOS, that must mean that it has tons of support. Two different things.
And macOS is Unix certified, but that doesn’t make it Unix (I know, it’s complicated…) To help show this, EulerOS (from Huawei) is a Linux OS.
EulerOS is a high-security, highly scalable, high-performance, open enterprise Linux operating system
Its was also Unix 03 certified, just like macOS. Even though it’s Linux, not Unix.
I mis-phrased that, sorry. In the Android case, you can’t access a lot of networking functionality and other lower level access functions.
Running ifconfig responses with:
Warning: cannot open /proc/net/dev (Permission denied). Limited output.
Even though it is based on Linux, and has access to the ifconfig app, it’s not really something you can do. There are other things to consider like that. While you could try to give yourself root access, it’s messy and not something that’s really easy or encouraged.
In macOS’s case, it’s Unix to a point, but try installing NVIDIA cards in them (for CUDA cores). There are Unix drivers for Nvidia cards, for x86 and ARM, but even thought it’s Unix, it still won’t work.
How about running native Vulcan? It’s a major API for 3D graphics. It has a Unix driver, but still can’t work on macOS. Best that can be done is workarounds, but that’s not native and has issues.
There is Unix support for these, but macOS isn’t really Unix underneath.
That’s like saying there is an entire Linux system under Android. Sure there is, but there is enough in the way to make the kernel not really accessible not have access to many normal Linux functions (like ifconfig).
They are, at least where I am. They would sometimes give a €100 credit towards their bill. And those bills are oddly an extra €100 higher than normal, and only those bills.
No, because a jelly has to be strained of the fruit pulp (it’s why jelly is clear), and the fruit usually has to have a high pectin amount in it.
It would be closer to a jam though. But calling it a pastry would be like declaring your ham is a pastry because you put some apple jelly on it. It takes more than a spread to make it a pastry.
And the pizza dough doesn’t make it a pastry, this is due to how yeast doughs (fermentation, in pizza dough also typically a high wheat protein count) are different from pastry doughs (high fat content, no yeast). To make an example, it would be like declaring a peanut butter and jam sandwich is a pastry. It’s not.
They now want five years of experience for service desk now.
But we are talking about the average user. And the average user uses their smartphone as their main computer. What you as a single person isn’t what the subject is. You’ve gone off topic.
The average person is most likely using their Android (Linux) device as their “desktop”. The year of the Linux desktop has been a reality for years. They use it to call, make appointments, email, send and receive official documents, sign those documents (DocuSign), photo for business reasons and expenses, etc… I used to do inventory and order management on mine.
“Smartphones are the most widely used devices globally, with 5.3 billion users… Laptops are used by 1.8 billion people… Desktops, with 1.2 billion users globally”
Technology changes, and with it comes it’s shape and form. Many would have told you that a GUI is hardly a desktop environment before. What makes it “hardly a desktop environment”? And don’t say “I can’t do my job” because again, we are talking about the average user, not you.
I’ve seen businesses run completely on Android. Most POS units are Android. They do sales, ordering (from supplies), employee payrolls, time sheets, a whole business.
What else would it need to do, that the average user would want/need, to make it more “official”? “carrier/Google from a privacy/enshittification perspective” Pretty much every OS is having this issue, and devices can be purchased without carrier controls (I bought mine like that.)