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> As a Linux user, it's a huge productivity boost because I wouldn't be able to use 90% of the app I us since they wouldn't be available on Linux. That's not t
by jnbiche 9y ago
> As a Linux user, it's a huge productivity boost because I wouldn't be able to use 90% of the app I us since they wouldn't be available on Linux.
That's not true. There are native cross-platform GUI toolkits, such as Qt. There's just as much reason for a Qt app to run on Linux as an Electron app.
- 9point6 9y agoI think the guy you're replying to's point is that Qt versions of the apps he uses don't exist - the Electron ones do. The alternative to many Electron apps isn't a native app in another framework, it would simply be no app (on linux).
- imtringued 9y agoUsually the alternative to many electron apps is the web version which lacks 5% of the features but is 10 times more efficient.
- yoz-y 9y agoNative and Electron apps have two advantages over web though. Fist one is, that they do have access to the file system. This makes a whole range of applications (like Git Kraken) possible. The other is that an application has an icon in the taskbar/dock. When somebody pings me on slack I know where to go to read it. When somebody calls me in hangouts, I have to go fishing for the tab or window with the site open.
- nkkollaw 9y agoNot true. One example of a service that probably _could_ have a web version is Spotify, but they only offer their service via their Electron app. Apps I care about are VSCode, Atom, Spotify, Slack.
- Can_Not 9y agoSpotify actually does have a web player.
- nkkollaw 9y agoYup.