If you want faster, anything running on a Cerebras machine will do.

Never tried it for much coding though.

In fact, the thin client that drives my desk at [company] runs Linux with the Citrix client to connect to a VDI that exists somewhere in a datacenter we own, because regulations.

Interesting to note that, At 1.2 TiB/s memory bandwidth, it has twice as much bandwidth as an M5 Max chip from Apple. In the unlikely event Apple decides to make an M5 Ultra, it'll have the same memory bandwidth.

Of course, all the other metrics are well below this monster.

> it would be like using an old-school Cray

I'd totally do that as well. Don't judge me. ;-)

I have zero idea of what I'd do with it except programming in Python and doing my e-mail and browsing, but I would still love to have one under my desk.

You hate Google. I don't like them, but they are OK computers that lack some important keys. Lacking a Meta key makes using Gnome less convenient.

You are not forced to use Gmail or Google Docs. You are mostly forced to use a browser, unless you jailbreak it.

That seems something completely out of scope for systemd.

Corporations will continue using Windows the same way they'll continue using mainframes (at least mainframes are interesting machines). If Dell, HP and Lenovo decide tomorrow to ship all laptops with Fedora by default, very few people will install Windows. Or notice it's a different OS. They'll just think that Windows 12 no longer has ads.

Corporations will continue to corporate. Active Directory is a powerful thing. SharePoint is another dependency that's hard to get rid of, even more so when it becomes the file server where all Office content is stored.

I recently helped liberate 70 Chromebooks that were going to recycling. Now students get a Linux laptop for free.