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Nothing, but we long crossed that threshold. The browser has largely usurped the operating system itself for end users (with the nasty side effect that you're no longer relying on self-contained desktop applications, but on entire networks of machines even for the most trivial of tasks), and according to Ohloh/Openhub Chromium is almost as big as the Linux kernel, just a million lines short.


I think this is the problem with the "hacker" community.

They assume because they are happy relying on a browser and who knows how many webapps to get the job that the whole world is too.




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