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My desktop is Linux and I still use LibreOffice, VLC and Thunderbird. And I also used Google's Docs, Calendar, Gmail and Music, but I've cut off my Gmail / Cale

My desktop is Linux and I still use LibreOffice, VLC and Thunderbird. And I also used Google's Docs, Calendar, Gmail and Music, but I've cut off my Gmail / Calendar usage due to their poor implementation for standards, having migrated from Google Apps to FastMail. I'm also paying for a Dropbox subscription because they are the only major cloud storage provider with native support for Linux and even though some clients exist for Google Drive I can't use a solution that doesn't want me as a customer; but enough ranting. I don't agree with you because the browser is ubiquitous and the web is open and based on standards. And you don't actually need a server to do interesting things in the browser. Quite the contrary, because of modern browsers, a majority of people with a PC have access to a potent development environment. And then the difference between the web and app stores is like night and day.

erikpukinskis 11y ago
It's true, you can do a lot without a server! And I think where we're headed there's a lot happening in-browser. But there are still parts of most workflows where a little server work makes sense, and that's the bottleneck. We can't have an open source web app workflow until the entire develop/deploy workflow can be forked with a couple button presses. As long as there's one single part of that chain that needs to be done by hand, we won't have a rich pool of open source web software users. You're right though that if you're willing to use Desktop software there's still a bunch of good software out there. I'm just not interested in desktop software anymore.