Comment by bigstrat2003
2 days ago
> It's easier to blame users instead.
Yes, because the users are in fact the problem. The options are either to trust the user to make decisions (and technically illiterate users will screw things up for themselves), or lock down the system so that the user isn't allowed to do anything the corporate overlord doesn't let them. There is no middle ground.
There is one where desktops are slowly being remade, which Windows and MacOS are failing at. Have application repositories, but open ones like Debian or Linux in general, so that application developers can publish and don't ask for a cut of every sale. Sandbox all new desktop applications over the years and publish long roadmaps until everything is sandboxed, say, in 2035.
Provide more education and guidance for users and more corporate controls.
If they would have really started to do this in 2005, we would have been there by now. Instead we get more UI toolkits and more UI refreshes and AI everywhere.