Do desktops really matter in 2023? What fraction of computers are desktops now? Most computers are phones and servers last time I checked. As we all know Linux dominates there.
I have one phone… I’ve got three desktops at home, one laptops plus two steamdecks, two servers and one ipad we never use.
At work we have 15 desktops plus 2 servers and 4 laptops.
I dont know how people live with just a phone as a “computer”. I couldnt even live with just a laptop… Like what are you people doing just browsing tiktok and youtube?
Yel that’s exactly what they do. I’ve asked around, and at a guess, half the people I know only have a phone. Whole families just using a phone each to look at YouTube and tiktok, do banking talk to friends on WhatsApp, Snapchat, Facebook. They watch tv, play sport, go out socialising, shopping, etc. They honestly have no use for a PC at all
A huge percentage of people don’t use a computer at work either.
Its easy to get lost in tech, but in reality the vast majority of people in this world just have no use for desktops or laptops.
I have a desktop and 4 laptops, zero tablets, and one phone. Of course they all boot linux by default. But I know I’m an outlier. I hang out with average families. They have maybe one desktop, two to three laptops (of which about half are school chromebooks), a Playstation/Switch/XBox, and one phone per person. Plus the computers they use most are not in their house they are servers in data centers. The machines they possess are really just interfaces to the computers they actually rely on.
Very true. A lot of the SciComp and ML folks I know use a McBook Air as the keyboard/mouse for their real machine which sits under their desk and eats 1200W while it works.
Yup. This has been my life for a while now. MacOS is an expensive, but competent ssh client. And my personal daily driver is Ubuntu. I went through an arch and Gentoo phase, but Ubuntu is fine tbh.
There’s a good deal more laptops than desktops. They’re included. And since a good amount of the traffic is from no doubt steam deck, I guess that covers mobile as well (not really, but still, better than nothing)
Do desktops really matter in 2023? What fraction of computers are desktops now? Most computers are phones and servers last time I checked. As we all know Linux dominates there.
I have one phone… I’ve got three desktops at home, one laptops plus two steamdecks, two servers and one ipad we never use.
At work we have 15 desktops plus 2 servers and 4 laptops.
I dont know how people live with just a phone as a “computer”. I couldnt even live with just a laptop… Like what are you people doing just browsing tiktok and youtube?
Yel that’s exactly what they do. I’ve asked around, and at a guess, half the people I know only have a phone. Whole families just using a phone each to look at YouTube and tiktok, do banking talk to friends on WhatsApp, Snapchat, Facebook. They watch tv, play sport, go out socialising, shopping, etc. They honestly have no use for a PC at all
A huge percentage of people don’t use a computer at work either.
Its easy to get lost in tech, but in reality the vast majority of people in this world just have no use for desktops or laptops.
I don’t imagine a lot of people bar PC gamers do much more than watch media or consume social media on their devices, so a phone fits the bill.
So they want a TV not a Computer.
My zoomer coworker said he doesn’t need a tv and I was like wtf.
Where does he plug his tablet in when he wants to watch illegally streamed content?
People these days seldom know how to pirate content :(
I just watch it on my desktop or laptop tbh
Why
Yes, but one that fits in my pocket. I wanna watch on my way to work
Yup let me just take my 50inch TV to the gym, on the train, to work for my lunch breaks etc…
Portable TV’s have been around since they were black and white.
Yes they’re phones now?
But I can’t mod games on consoles that you plug into the TV. Also my specs are better. :C
I have a desktop and 4 laptops, zero tablets, and one phone. Of course they all boot linux by default. But I know I’m an outlier. I hang out with average families. They have maybe one desktop, two to three laptops (of which about half are school chromebooks), a Playstation/Switch/XBox, and one phone per person. Plus the computers they use most are not in their house they are servers in data centers. The machines they possess are really just interfaces to the computers they actually rely on.
Well, technically Instagram as well.
Anyway, I can’t stand writing a long email on my phone, I don’t what kind of “computer tasks” people are carrying out on them
From what I’ve understood, it’s mostly emails.
Lots of short and sloppy half-assed emails with the most shitty formatting they could manage. That’s how many people computer.
That and TikTok.
If you work in ML or scientific computing then it has been the year of the Linux desktop for about a decade now.
Very true. A lot of the SciComp and ML folks I know use a McBook Air as the keyboard/mouse for their real machine which sits under their desk and eats 1200W while it works.
Yup. This has been my life for a while now. MacOS is an expensive, but competent ssh client. And my personal daily driver is Ubuntu. I went through an arch and Gentoo phase, but Ubuntu is fine tbh.
There’s a good deal more laptops than desktops. They’re included. And since a good amount of the traffic is from no doubt steam deck, I guess that covers mobile as well (not really, but still, better than nothing)
Don’t forget Android