Honestly, this is horribly misinterpreted
A cloud desktop provides two badly needed functions:
In large industries (think a hospital) where you have literally hundreds of PCs to manage it's a huge challenge, this facilities a thin workstation that could be a gateway to the cloud workstation that uses a standard configuration. Restarting a thin workstation would get you a new cloud instance without the malware someone installed.
Organizations need consultants to connect to their networks in this new remote world, this offers a company to host a virtual desktop in a DMZ for a consultant to access company data while keeping off of the consultants computer.
Lastly, the challenge of creating a thin terminal in example #1 that could initialize the hardware, connect to the internet and login to the cloud would require a very specific hardware build - going against the "build your own PC" idea, something that offers competitive advantage to Microsoft and the gaming community.
I don't think the concern is that it isn't a useful idea in many (mostly corporate) applications. It's the continuing loss of personal freedom to control your own computer.
I would think plenty of people would be fine with it for their job, and very against it for their personal lives.
Personally I've been done with Windows since Win 8, but I still primarily use a Windows computer for my job. Also I fucking hate Windows 10 (what I use at work). They literally move buttons around, etc, every single time they update. Every week or two you will lose some basic functionality, and then it will randomly come back a week later. It's like the digital version of mental illness.
Nose check in isle 1.
I will bring a mirror
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