Comment by narnianal

> The reason that software is online is a business one, not a technical one.

That's only partly true. Software gets more and more developed for the big corps in mind as the sole users. So web browsers are developed to make Google and FB happy. Kubernetes is developed to only work in AWS and Google Cloud really well. And so on.

All that hollows out the foundation that gives software usability to all of us. Eg. if big linux corps only focus on Kubernetes, Kubernetes only works in AWS and GC, then nobody puts effort into Linux anymore. It might even happen that linux gets unusable if you don't run it in such kind of environment. In the end it all depends how the majority of resources get spent.

So we come from today's tech level X everywhere to tech level X+Y in the cloud and tech level X-Z on local clusters. Then where will most of the data be? Where will the new hip stuff be? How can you develop new stuff with an incomplete local infrastructure?

What you lose is not the desktop software but the desktop. And you will lose it in a technical sense. You won't be able to rebuild it technically alone.