Reason #[I've lost count] to switch to Linux. Obviously not happening right now, but probably not all that far off in the future considering they already do this for enterprise customers.
Reason #[I've lost count] to switch to Linux. Obviously not happening right now, but probably not all that far off in the future considering they already do this for enterprise customers.
This is a pretty natural conclusion to cheap chromebooks and Infrastructure as a Service. Someone with a fiber connection who games a couple times a week and mostly does web browsing and word processing the rest of the time could essentially get a new $100 Chromebook every year or so and always have access to top-of-the-line hardware via the cloud (as a premium add-on, surely). So Microsoft can keep their desktop live for pennies on the dollar because the vast majority of the time they’re using little to no resources. And then Microsoft would be able to do things like mass caching of assets similar to how most ISP’s do, since it’s all in their data center.
So they only have to store one copy of boner.jpg instead of 10,000?
Do enough people actually have fibre internet for this to be feasible?
The best internet I can get right now is a bunch of cables bunched together, but if I got 150mbps (which is just 3×50mpbs lines), the signal interferes with itself and it's less reliable than just getting one 50mpbs line.
Not to mention, since it's not fibre, the upload is a lot worse than my already slow download speed.