indeed - a dream of possibilities, if people can get their act together and implement something that from the user perspective looks UNIFORM (see my other reply).
I have never understood the appeal of thin clients for individuals. I guess they make sense for businesses. Are you saying you want a thin client experience for yourself? If so why on earth would you want those limitations? (Eg latency and dependency on an internet connection). Modern machines like the m1 air give you excellent battery life, lightweight form factor, and quite acceptable performance. If I need access to something faster, tailscale + ssh make that easy enough to do regardless of where the faster machine is located.
What would a thin client let you do (or how would the experience be better) that a decent laptop doesn’t already do a better job at?
In fact, it is not a thin client since all is executed in the client. it is more a thin server that is just a file server. The idea is to take benefit of the power of the device (more and more powerful)
Chromebooks and smart TVs are essentially thin clients, and they do just fine for many home users, businesses, and education markets.
The idea of having to run a heavy app on your own hardware doesn't really make sense anymore unless you're a creator of some sort, whether a dev or a video or games or whatever person (and even then some of that happens in the cloud these days).
If I were going to school or doing generic office document work, I wouldn't want to chug along a $1000 machine just to be a glorified note taker. Even doing the dev work, a lot of the code workspace in the cloud services are slowly but surely maturing, and are much more reproducible than individually setting up dev machines with their own node etc environments. Docker doesn't do so well on Macs either, with larger codebases especially.
Don't get me wrong, I love my MacBook, but it's not the right tool for every person or every job.
