What's happened in software / computing in the last 20 years that's good? Imo it could be argued that overall the user experience has gotten worse. Dead internet theory, enshittification.

* The web is pretty much dead. Time Berners Lee's ideals certainly are.

* Computing is dominated by completely evil megacorps.

* They are making a concerted effort to make people as tech-illiterate as possible and also make universal computing illegal.

* Theres been years where GPU's were being price gouged, 1st by crypto bros, then NFT bros, now LLM bros.

* Cant even buy RAM now.

* They put e-fuses into hardware now, comes right out of the factory as ready made e-waste that cant be repurposed.

* The biggest platforms, Android and iOS, are walled garden, locked down, corporate nightmare worlds. And there is practically no alternative.

* Social media is making people depressed and also very easy to manipulate en-masse by anyone willing to pay.

* Moore's law stopped and software bloat overtook performance gains.

* VR might have been cool but it was pre-enshittified in its nascent stages. Freakin' facebook bought Oculus before they had released a single headset.

There's a lot of bleak things for sure.

Linux has come a long way Valve's efforts with Proton/Linux Gaming