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I have a noob question, but how do proprietary apps (IE: Slack) make it onto the AUR without having an official binary?
Both Slack and Spotify do provide Linux versions, even if not/less supported officially.
Webassembly is slowly taking over and i believe native apps days are numbered. If legacy apps like AutoCAD ported to WASM can give similar performances and experience as web app this is just inevitable now.
If you are going to expect me to run your software in an always-on manner, I would greatly appreciate a native application. I frequently do light computing on a Surface Go. It's a delightful little device and I love it, but it is not powerful enough that I can leave gmail, Slack, and Discord open all the time. I don't have enough RAM to run another web application but I could very easily afford a native app or two.
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I have an old ThinkPad X200s that I turn on from time to time. I keep a fedora installed and updated just in case, and since I'm there, i also sync my nextcloud stuff. E-mails using claws-mail are not a problem. It generally runs fast enough until I open firefox and web stuff in general.
Claws Mail on an old Atom is a lot faster than webmail on pretty much anything else. This probably illustrates best the difference between the two approaches.
I'm going to be slammed for using these two words, but for any real work you need to have as few layers of indirection between the user and the machine as possible, and this includes the UX, in the sense that it is tailored to the fastest and most comfortable data entry and process monitoring. I don't see any `web first` or Electron solution replacing Reaper or Blender in a foreseeable future. One exception I'm intri…
OnShape ( https://www.onshape.com/ ) offers professional level CAD which runs in a browser. Works great.
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So you are telling me that I can easily exchange development time which I would have to pay for end-user resources, which I would not have to pay? Sounds like a great deal.
In a fair society it should be taxed as an externality. There is a real environmental cost associated with software bloat.
Apparently, they trade off still worth it, as many electron apps are popular despite these issues. Many times there is electron app or nothing.
I make a living developing software only available on Windows and macOS. That said, if I didn't need to interact so much with the operating system, I'd be making a web app. It all depends on what you want to make though. Video editing software? Native app. CRUD app? Web app. You may also want to consider pricing implications of both. Desktop software can usually be sold for a higher up front cost, but it's tough sell…
I understand the concept of making a native app to include using the native UI platforms. What you described is hardly more native than electron, which is basically a web app at heart. Or maybe there needs to be a consensus on terms. Do people consider electron apps to be native? I would put them in some weird middle ground, but definitely closer to web technologies than native development.
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So you are telling me that I can easily exchange development time which I would have to pay for end-user resources, which I would not have to pay? Sounds like a great deal.
In a fair society it should be taxed as an externality. There is a real environmental cost associated with software bloat.
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Agreed. If you have a CPU from 2012 onwards, 16GB of RAM and an SSD, that’s a respectable hardware setup. It might not be the fastest piece of kit on the planet, but I don’t see any reason why it couldn’t last another 3 to 5 years without feeling slow. Electron apps invariably make such kit feel slower than it actually is. You can get good performance out of even older hardware if you treat it well and load it with g…
Yep, the new Steam library being a bloated web app is what forced me to install more RAM. I normally don't close out of applications when I'm not using them, so I was always hovering around ~6-7 of my 8 gigs of RAM in use. Then they update the library to the new bloated version, and my computer starts freezing because the library memory footprint is so much larger that my computer was having to use over a gig of swap…