IMVH because of sheep effect: Big&Powerful push for web(cr)apps because that's what they need for profit and countless others think that following them is a good idea...
Beside that "desktop" was equally abandoned by giants, reduced to a modern dumb terminal with a generic "endpoint" name, just a bootloader for a WebVM improperly named browser for legacy reasons, so develop for desktop means develop for something uncertain: classic widget-based UIs have proven to be limited and nowadays also derailed and crappy, modern document UI essentially exists only in Emacs (and classic, now abandoned, systems) and in web/notebook UI with an uncertain future. So sheep effects aside many think "if I develop a webapp today it's code can be combined with/injected in something else tomorrow", while if I choose Qt who know what can happen, same for GTk, same for non-portable UI libraries (Windows, OSX) and classic Tk are almost abandoned...
We must rediscover classic desktop tech but that means rediscover desktops, not as dumb terminals but as a single and unique system with anything ready available to the user, like classic SmallTalk workstations or actual Emacs, where the concept of "composability" web-app have it's far superior and directly available to the user. Such move can only be done by a community or a giant, since we do not have anymore a real FLOSS community, most are just unpaid voluntary workers for some giant, simply because nowadays most are on someone else computer (so called "cloud"), and giants have the opposite interest... It's unfortunately unlikely.
Everyone have came back to laptop and desktop just because with the push to remote work due to covid scenario they need something to really work or study with and so it appear clear that mobile crap is unusable for that. The mere fact that too many still choose laptop (that are craptop essentially) not because they travel but as desktop replacer clearly depict a thing: people do not have learnt the lesson. They choose "computers" just because they need them, but most still fail to understand that WFH is not put a craptop, perhaps a 14" one, somewhere in a house but dedicate a place, possibly a silent and lockable one (just to avoid Judge cat, MP who have sex in streaming, ...) PER HUMAN BEING in their own house with a proper office setup there.
We can hope for a real came back to desktop if and when WFH switch mode from an emergency push chosen to make companies pay less shifting costs to workers to a stale and developed work mode. Perhaps then enough people will realize what does they really need and so the demand will be big enough to force a change...
Beside that "desktop" was equally abandoned by giants, reduced to a modern dumb terminal with a generic "endpoint" name, just a bootloader for a WebVM improperly named browser for legacy reasons, so develop for desktop means develop for something uncertain: classic widget-based UIs have proven to be limited and nowadays also derailed and crappy, modern document UI essentially exists only in Emacs (and classic, now abandoned, systems) and in web/notebook UI with an uncertain future. So sheep effects aside many think "if I develop a webapp today it's code can be combined with/injected in something else tomorrow", while if I choose Qt who know what can happen, same for GTk, same for non-portable UI libraries (Windows, OSX) and classic Tk are almost abandoned...
We must rediscover classic desktop tech but that means rediscover desktops, not as dumb terminals but as a single and unique system with anything ready available to the user, like classic SmallTalk workstations or actual Emacs, where the concept of "composability" web-app have it's far superior and directly available to the user. Such move can only be done by a community or a giant, since we do not have anymore a real FLOSS community, most are just unpaid voluntary workers for some giant, simply because nowadays most are on someone else computer (so called "cloud"), and giants have the opposite interest... It's unfortunately unlikely.
Everyone have came back to laptop and desktop just because with the push to remote work due to covid scenario they need something to really work or study with and so it appear clear that mobile crap is unusable for that. The mere fact that too many still choose laptop (that are craptop essentially) not because they travel but as desktop replacer clearly depict a thing: people do not have learnt the lesson. They choose "computers" just because they need them, but most still fail to understand that WFH is not put a craptop, perhaps a 14" one, somewhere in a house but dedicate a place, possibly a silent and lockable one (just to avoid Judge cat, MP who have sex in streaming, ...) PER HUMAN BEING in their own house with a proper office setup there.
We can hope for a real came back to desktop if and when WFH switch mode from an emergency push chosen to make companies pay less shifting costs to workers to a stale and developed work mode. Perhaps then enough people will realize what does they really need and so the demand will be big enough to force a change...
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