[nine_k]

Speaking of a "year of Linux on desktop", it's mostly not happening because the desktop lock-in has largely eased. I of course love my Linux desktop, but I use relatively few native applications, and every one of them is multiplatform now. Windows desktop becomes less and less relevant in its own way, by degradation of experience, and by being replaced with consoles and the Steam Deck.

Same may happen to GitHub. CI/CD tools and workflows can become more portable and adaptable. Independent code review tools that can use GitHub API along with a few other APIs may become popular. GitHub will become one of, not the one. I won't call it a bad outcome.

[renegade-otter]

I think the same of AWS. There are alternatives out there, especially for small personal projects.

I use Digital Ocean and couldn't be happier. The bill is small, and it's refreshingly simple to host a container.

I still have battle scars from trying to set up AWS Fargate. It's just a hodge podge of corporately requested features at this point.

[lugoues]

Honestly many companies would do well to use these services. I think we get too much into the idea our apps need the same guarantees as the large products out there. Define your SLAs and then choose the platform.

[nashadelic]

Whats funny is that nearly every major desktop app and feature has come out on macOS first and windows has nearly always been an after thought

[lief79]

Starting when?

[jumpconc]

Windows 1.0, I believe. Xerox PARC invented the WIMP UI paradigm (windows, icons, menus, pointer), Apple commercialised it first, and then Microsoft copied Apple.