With VR headsets and increasing 8k TV affordability, screen real estate is really getting big.
Technies almost always have a laptop, phone, and home desktop up at once, often have some media/fileshare, and then there are VMs to further the complexity.
Here's what I've been wanting for years: a big ass 8k wraparound monitor, and it has clickable widgets in the desktop to turn on the computer/VM and activate the display feed into some part of the desktop.
There's a primary desktop area, and that area is surrounded by "neutral zones/buffer zones where if you take the mouse into that area and click on it, it would swap the "primary" area to that machine and place the former machine's display into one of the peripheral areas of the large display, or secondary monitors.
With "cores to spare" in modern Moore's law scaling, I should be able to have several OSes seamlessly running at once, not the virtualbox stuff or other clunkiness, a much more seamless experience. There's a lot of hardware/CPU features to support it, but of course the OS vendors/distros have no prioritization to do something like that. It's also a fundamental failing of IoT.
We are all moving towards a world where we have a dozen decent-class computing devices (Multicore multiGhz phone, 2x that for a tablet, 2x that for a laptop, and 2x that for a desktop) even not counting IoT, media, etc.
We need a truly distributed OS that can handle this stuff. Windows/Android/iOS/OSX won't do it, they are in the walled garden business we need Linux to do it. The cloud projects, k8s / etc wanted a "datacenter OS" but basically failed.
> With "cores to spare" in modern Moore's law scaling, I should be able to have several OSes seamlessly running at once, not the virtualbox stuff or other clunkiness, a much more seamless experience. There's a lot of hardware/CPU features to support it, but of course the OS vendors/distros have no prioritization to do something like that. It's also a fundamental failing of IoT.
No. The hardware features that allow running multiple OS's at once is what VirtualBox/QEMU/HyperV/Xen/etc. use, and those feature require a privileged OS to manage it.
The hardware does not support having multiple OS's manage the machine at once - even if they could be made to run, they'd step on each other and make hardware crash as they all try to configure it differently at the same time, and with them all in ring 0 they'd be able to arbitrarily compromise each other. Plus, you'd be annoyed that each of, say, 3 OS's could only use 1/3rd of all resources - 16 cores and 64 GB of RAM may seem like lot, but 5 cores and 21 GB of RAM does not.
It's a dumb idea. Just get a better OS, a better hypervisor, better "fastboot to other OS" features (say, 1-5 seconds "hibernate and resume other OS"), or another desktop.
>Techies almost always have a laptop, phone, and home desktop up at once
What definition are you using here? I like tech and worked as a software engineer (not working now), and I haven't owned a desktop in over a decade. If we're talking "almost always", I think these days I have 0 phones/laptops up most of the time followed by 1 in pretty close second place, and even having 2 (let alone 3 or more) is uncommon for me.
Write more in depth on what you want, you describe too many concepts all jumbled together. We have been moving away from homogenous systems for a long time, it is hard to compete if you want to be "the one". Apple is the closest to that but in the same way seems to be the farthest away from what you describe.
Technies almost always have a laptop, phone, and home desktop up at once, often have some media/fileshare, and then there are VMs to further the complexity.
Here's what I've been wanting for years: a big ass 8k wraparound monitor, and it has clickable widgets in the desktop to turn on the computer/VM and activate the display feed into some part of the desktop.
There's a primary desktop area, and that area is surrounded by "neutral zones/buffer zones where if you take the mouse into that area and click on it, it would swap the "primary" area to that machine and place the former machine's display into one of the peripheral areas of the large display, or secondary monitors.
With "cores to spare" in modern Moore's law scaling, I should be able to have several OSes seamlessly running at once, not the virtualbox stuff or other clunkiness, a much more seamless experience. There's a lot of hardware/CPU features to support it, but of course the OS vendors/distros have no prioritization to do something like that. It's also a fundamental failing of IoT.
We are all moving towards a world where we have a dozen decent-class computing devices (Multicore multiGhz phone, 2x that for a tablet, 2x that for a laptop, and 2x that for a desktop) even not counting IoT, media, etc.
We need a truly distributed OS that can handle this stuff. Windows/Android/iOS/OSX won't do it, they are in the walled garden business we need Linux to do it. The cloud projects, k8s / etc wanted a "datacenter OS" but basically failed.