While the desktop might be dead it's still needed. Maybe not that much for consuming, for that there are many better ways. But for creating it's still mostly needed. Or is it?
I know I might be in minority even among the most technically inclined people. But I think I could manage just fine without the desktop (operating system) sitting there between my terminal and browser windows. The only purpose it has is to manage the switching between those two. Everything else is either inside the browser or running on the command line. Unfortunately the command line options for browsers are quite unsatisfactorily. Sure they get mostly the job done, but the web is just too visual nowadays to actually be useful with any text based browsers.
If it wasn't so tied to Google I think ChromeOS would be perfect fit for me. The whole idea of the OS is to run the browser. But at it's core it's still a Linux based system, so running a terminal and all the command line programs I need shouldn't be a problem. It's a shame there isn't any viable open source options of such a system.