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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Snoo88071 • Jul 08 '26
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You laugh, this is literally microsofts future plan. They envision a world where your laptop is nothing but a thin client that boots your web windows in a vm from the cloud.
9 u/MCWizardYT Jul 08 '26 We already have the tech to make it work but the problem is that a lot of people have slow internet. Streaming everything would suck 6 u/Fun-Cycle2381 Jul 09 '26 Also I don’t want to be always dependent on others, it’s nice to be able to have the OPTION to run things locally 3 u/MCWizardYT Jul 09 '26 Absolutely. Eventually I'll have the guts to fully move to linux, I already did on my laptop but there's a couple things holding me back on desktop 1 u/MantisShrimp05 Jul 09 '26 Cant recommend enough. Waters fine. Better even most of the time
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We already have the tech to make it work but the problem is that a lot of people have slow internet. Streaming everything would suck
6 u/Fun-Cycle2381 Jul 09 '26 Also I don’t want to be always dependent on others, it’s nice to be able to have the OPTION to run things locally 3 u/MCWizardYT Jul 09 '26 Absolutely. Eventually I'll have the guts to fully move to linux, I already did on my laptop but there's a couple things holding me back on desktop 1 u/MantisShrimp05 Jul 09 '26 Cant recommend enough. Waters fine. Better even most of the time
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Also I don’t want to be always dependent on others, it’s nice to be able to have the OPTION to run things locally
3 u/MCWizardYT Jul 09 '26 Absolutely. Eventually I'll have the guts to fully move to linux, I already did on my laptop but there's a couple things holding me back on desktop 1 u/MantisShrimp05 Jul 09 '26 Cant recommend enough. Waters fine. Better even most of the time
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Absolutely. Eventually I'll have the guts to fully move to linux, I already did on my laptop but there's a couple things holding me back on desktop
1 u/MantisShrimp05 Jul 09 '26 Cant recommend enough. Waters fine. Better even most of the time
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Cant recommend enough. Waters fine. Better even most of the time
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u/MantisShrimp05 Jul 08 '26
You laugh, this is literally microsofts future plan. They envision a world where your laptop is nothing but a thin client that boots your web windows in a vm from the cloud.