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>>rbanff+(OP)
Wow, talk about being out of touch with the real world. Developers, especially Linux developers, really need to give up on this whole "Desktop" operating system idea. It's not going to work. It is already dead. And I can hardly believe we are still using these ancient systems for many tasks even today. There is no future in WIMP, and people really need to stop developing these Windows clones already. It was lame 10 years ago. If you are still working on desktop OS clones today, you so are terribly out of touch with the real world there really is no hope for you or your product. Get over it.

Touch-based (and by extension, NUI-based) OS'es and mobile applications are the future. Windows always sucked. Mac OS always sucked. Every desktop OS ever built sucked because it is a horrible way to use a computer. Nobody ever really wanted to use these terrible desktop metaphor systems... they only ever did because they had to.

>>dj2ste+j4
So please explain to me: what the hell does the input method (keyboard, mouse, touchscreen) have to do with the low-level security properties of a system? If anything, the switch to tablets and thus more ubiquitous computing makes security an extremely critical issue (see the many discussions about permission systems, application sandboxes, malware leaking personal information etc...). It will become even more pressing in the future, if you think about devices that are controlled by thought (EEG etc...).