Linux will not see mainstream adoption until Dell, HP, Lenovo and the likes start shipping their hardware with Linux by default.

With the effective end of support of 32-bit computers, and there's millions and millions of perfectly good ones about, the time is ripe for someone to step up and produce an XP-like windows for them. I don't mean linux, I mean windows. Microsoft won't do it because there's no money in it. But for a dedicated team of volunteers, the opportunity is there to fight the good fight against ewaste and rapacious mega-corporations.

With a max memory size of just 4GB, no new memory will be needed, and perhaps other software developers will think about unbloated programs.

Yeah, I know, I'm dreaming, but dreaming of good things.

Robbbert wrote on Today, 21:34:

With the effective end of support of 32-bit computers, and there's millions and millions of perfectly good ones about, the time is ripe for someone to step up and produce an XP-like windows for them. I don't mean linux, I mean windows. Microsoft won't do it because there's no money in it. But for a dedicated team of volunteers, the opportunity is there to fight the good fight against ewaste and rapacious mega-corporations.

With a max memory size of just 4GB, no new memory will be needed, and perhaps other software developers will think about unbloated programs.

Yeah, I know, I'm dreaming, but dreaming of good things.

Any form of remote access functionality that streamlines anything would need to be basically removed out of the os and made impossible.

The modern spyware web would then need a sandboxed browsing version that could limit the memory footprint and disable access to system resources.