There's always BSD, Solaris, and plan9.

These problems apply to windows too.

Hence why iOS and Android are successful. For typical end users they are simply vastly superior.

Business users generally still use traditional general purpose computers, but more and more applications are now web based rather than precompiled binaries so the platform doesn't matter.

But yes outside of business and certain niches, a general purpose computer was never a good tool for the average user. Too complex, too much to go wrong, they were used because special-purpose systems did not exist yet. Nowadays there are much better systems available for typical end user usage patterns.

A higher resolution makings things small is due to poorly designed software.
Sizes should be specified in real world units (eg 1pt is 1/72 of an inch), not arbitrary measurements like pixels.
A higher resolution screen when used properly just results in more detail. Things will only get smaller if you decide to scale them down, by default they should be the same size.

ChromeOS is a distinct brand, people expect a particular experience.
Windows is a distinct brand, people expect a particular experience. Giving users a restricted experience while using the same branding leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
Thats why all the windows-ce laptops failed miserably too, as did windows mobile. People bought it expecting the normal windows desktop experience, got something inferior and incompatible, and word soon spread.

A professional is paid, an amateur is not.
Absolutely nothing to do with ethics.
A professional is less likely to have ethics because money is their primary motivator, whereas an amateur may have more altruistic motivations.

By drawing a mouse, he copied the appearance of a mouse. So he copied something that already existed and expanded upon it.
Without public domain, you have no source material to draw from, virtually everything is a derivative of something else.

Yes a mouse is a creation of nature, copyright does not exist in nature it's an artificial construct. Why should there be artificial constructs to protect some forms of work but not others?
Perhaps the copyright for all natural things should go to the government too, or perhaps an environmental fund for protection of nature?

And while the mouse is a product of nature, the steamboat is not. Should disney have paid licensing fees for his use of the image of a steamboat? Someone designed and built steam powered boats.

If you lock away the public domain in perpetuity you will absolutely stifle future work. Meanwhile people managed to create things just fine before the concept of copyright existed.

It's also not just reading a script, it can simultaneously have a feed of the original audio which allows it to better replicate it.

Replace "AI" with pretty much any technology.
Why should dubbing actors receive any special treatment? What about blacksmiths, factory workers, crop harvesters, and all manner of other professions that have been eliminated or severely reduced by advances in technology?

In some developing countries you get a guy in a booth who collects parking fees, in developed countries there is generally a machine. Should we rip out all those machines to protect the jobs of those who sit in booths to collect parking fees?

Or they clone the voice of the original actor, so the dubbed voice more closely matches the appearance.

That's exactly what happened in some places. There were various restrictions set up to impede the spread of cars, for example requiring that someone has to walk in front of any car waving a flag.

Also why should dubbing actors receive special treatment compared to all the other professions that either have been, or will be rendered obsolete or reduced to a much smaller niche by technology?

Non technical people are not going to buy and operate a high end server with 128GB ram, and then manually deploy hundreds of virtual machines on it...
But buying an off the shelf NAS appliance, many people can and do exactly that.

Many of these NAS devices will let you install additional packages as simple as choosing them from a list, you get things like owncloud, torrent clients, media servers etc as well as the built in capabilities of the NAS.
Adding an SSL certificate is usually also a built in capability, and the NAS vendors also typically provide a dynamic DNS service so you can access the device remotely by name with proper certificate validation.

Here's just a sample list of a few thousand synology NAS appliances which are publicly accessible, with valid SSL certs via IPv6-only:
https://www.ev6.net/v6sites2.p...

This setup is not default, these people have explicitly enabled external access and chosen a dyndns name for their appliances.

There's lots more. Self hosting is actually very common.

Use devices which support open standards such as Matter.
Connect them to an open source hub such as HomeAssistant.
Keep the devices connected to HA via an isolated network
Self host your HA instance using IPv6, and only allow remote access to the HA hub rather than the individual devices.
Use an SSL cert for the web interface.
Implement access controls if you don't want it to be public - eg limited it to the address range of your mobile telco, put it behind a VPN etc.
Verify firmware updates before applying them to any devices - ensure they only fix bugs and/or add features, not strip out functionality you need.

Such systems are extremely widespread because a lot of people are stuck behind NAT and cannot self host, and there are too many legacy networks out there without IPv6. These devices hook people with easy initial setup.

Charging a subscription is actually the best case, and ceasing support is the second best. Continuing to run the service but selling your information is a lot worse. Think how many dodgy off-brand CCTV cameras you can get which send your video streams to a server in China... A country where voyeur porn is popular.

It's _ALWAYS_ going to happen like this. Hosting these servers costs money so there absolutely has to be an ongoing revenue stream to pay for the hosting costs.

You can do remote access yourself for free too, the subscription service is for users stuck behind NAT on legacy networks without IPv6 who can't self host.

My instance of HA is accessible globally, but only via IPv6.