Time and time again I see people make this point about a &quot;real desktop operating system&quot; like that actually means anything. What is more &quot;real&quot; about Windows 10 or OSX than iOS or Android? The former OSes expose more of the lower level internals such as access to the filesystem, but I&#x27;d take some convincing that not having that access would be a barrier to a video producer or a graphic artist or pretty much anyone other than a hardcore superuser or developer.<p>Right now, we have two highly contrasting approaches. Microsoft is championing one OS that attempts to do very different things on different hardware, alongside hardware that attempts to be relevant in many different contexts. And Apple is choosing to persist with two forks (I believe there is an amount of common code), each trying to do a smaller job, better. Plus hardware that is optimised for specific scenarios. I think the jury&#x27;s still out on who&#x27;s going to win this one; as a unix fan, though, I tend to favour the &#x27;do less, better&#x27; approach.