Firstly, plenty of Linux instances have GUI. I installed Mint precisely because I wanted to keep the Windows/Mac desktop experience I was familiar with. GUIs add latency, sure. But we've had smooth GUI experiences since Apple's 1980s OS. This isn't the primary load on the system.

Secondly, as the Windows OS tries to do more and more online interfacing, the bottleneck that used to be CPU or open Memory or even Graphics is increasingly internet latency. Even just going to the start menu means making calls out online. Querying your local file system has built in calls to OneDrive. Your system usage is being constantly polled and tracked and monitored as part of the Microsoft imitative to feed their AI platforms. And because all of these off-platform calls create external vulnerabilities, the (abhorrently designed) antivirus and firewall systems are constantly getting invoked to protect you from the online traffic you didn't ask for.

It's a black hole of bloatware.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

TVs became SmartTVs and now need the internet to turn on. The TVs need an OS now to internet to do TV.

Antennae broadcast TV seems like an ancient magic.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We've deprecated a lot of the old TV/radio signal bandwidth in order to convert it to cellphone signal service.

But, on the flip side, digital antennae can hold a lot more information than the old analog signals. So now I've got a TV with a mini-antennae that gets 500 channels (virtually none of which I watch). My toddler son has figured out how to flip the channel to the continuous broadcast of Baby Einstein videos. And he periodically hijacks the TV for that purpose, when we leave the remote where he can reach.

So there's at least one person I can name who likes the current state of affairs.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

I always have to remind myself being able to stream audio from a cellphone while driving across a city is also a pretty crazy development.

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

I am not saying linux is terminal. I am saying that people tell you that linux is all terminal and that they want a gui.

Linux gui is much prettier than Windows anyway.