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Who even needs to run local apps anymore?
Edit: My point is -native linux versions don't exist in many/most cases. I was making a point that a web version of some app accessible to Linux users is better than nothing at all.
I seriously don't want everything to be a god damn webpage.
The funny thing for me is that my job is like 80% webpages in LibreWolf on my Linux machine. But that’s because the company uses M365 and Github.
I use various different programs for different reasons just like anybody, but I bet browser + vscode + terminal covers 95% of my work day.
It's better than an app without Linux version comrade
Just write a linux version, then. Programming isn't hard.
What? Lmao. I was using Linux for many years - I assure you no one was writing Linux apps bro.
So I'll gladly take a webpage as a service. Windows /Mac devs can keep doing what they were doing, I don't care as long there is a web version.
Anyone who wants to own what they create and doesn't want their work stolen for some startup's plagiarism engine. Anyone who is interested in privacy. Anyone who wants a consistent user experience. Anyone who wants to be exempt from sinister targeted advertising. Anyone who is worried about censorship.
I would say that most people who own a computer use local apps, and that the experience, and long-term costs, of using a local program is often better than doing something completely cloud-based.
They use data from webtraffic to make their charts, so talking about local apps doesn't really have much to do with this website.
Video editors, photo editors, 3d modelers , animators, gamedevs, djs, etc.
Me, who uses low end hardware and can't spend several gigabytes for simple web apps that I can run locally for 10% of the hardware resources of the web equivalent.
But native linux versions don't exist on most cases. I was making a point that a web version accessible to Linux user is better than nothing at all.
That's true. Your first comment was a bit confusing, sorry.