> because people who would have built a proper desktop application just wrap their web app in Electron instead. Except no-one would have built clients for the

> because people who would have built a proper desktop application just wrap their web app in Electron instead. Except no-one would have built clients for the linux desktop. Go back before Electron and count how many official clients for Linux there were from major software vendors, hell I'll even take massively feature incomplete answers like "Skype" just to help you.