Well i think we kinda think alike.
I've written my own MFC basically on top of win32. But I'm also a web dev at work.
I used to be a back end perl and oracle guy.
Then i got a new job and my boss forced me into web front end.
I mean, it is super convoluted. But you can make a web front end a hell of a lot prettier than a win32 app.
I think microsoft has just locked up win32. no one is allowed in. you can only write stuff on top.
None of the control panel programs use caching any more. You see the stupid spinning dots everywhere.
There are duplicate UIs everywhere. It's just a mess.
So you think Android, eh? I used to think that too.
But I just got a chromebox, a chromebit, and a chromebook. (overkill, but i don't care)
If you're willing to write a web app in javascript, you can do a LOT of stuff with modern browser APIs.
Angular seems pretty cool for a framework. I'm starting to learn that so i can free myself from php.
So I kinda think chrome os will take off more than android.
It boots in 7 seconds into a chrome browser. But underneath is Linux.
And you can install a Linux container. It is protected from the main linux os of chrome os.
For security reasons i guess? Those things also run android apps.
They run great with 4 gigs of RAM and chrome screams compared to win10.
From what I read, google is working on a new os called Fuchsia.
It's supposed to replace both android and chrome os.
I have my doubts about it tho. It's not based on linux. some realtime os called Zircon - wtf??
And chrome os is getting a lot of market share.
Stores are selling it and people are buying it.
No viruscheckers cuz it's built in. Updates happen niiiicely.
And chrome os is Linux. Patched and supported by google.
I hooked my chromebox to my hubs and it recognized ALLLLLL my midi devices, not to
mentions screens, keyboards, mice, etc. No drivers like windows would need.
Anyways, I've messed with linux servers, but chromeos is my first personal/front end-ish pc.
Which flavor of Linux do you use?
And what GUI api do you use on Linux then? I've always been curious about that.