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On the other hand, they don't require admin rights, disk space or installation time, and are platform independent (including for example chromebooks)

umaar 6y ago
I'm all for web apps, but does CS actually require admin rights? > disk space CS just downloaded 185mb of network resources for me to play. I would have thought those resources are stored on my disk, and not just in memory. > installation time That 185mb of resources took ~1 minute to download. By the time it had finished, it told me the server was full. Regardless this is still very impressive.
- koonsolo 6y ago
  I'm not going to claim that one is better than the other, because it's all about tradeoffs. But I'm sure more people played this right now because of the low barrier to entry. And the admin rights might not even be technical. Not a lot of people are fond of installing games on the laptop from work. But like I said, everything has tradeoffs.
  - andybak 6y ago
    > But I'm sure more people played this right now because of the low barrier to entry. This is the key point. If I'd seen a post about CS with a zip of an executable I would have passed. Why? Because it probably wouldn't have run correctly or I would have had some other issue with it. Let alone checking the provenance and worrying about malware.
- gsich 6y ago
  >I'm all for web apps, but does CS actually require admin rights? No. The cracked version(s) that are played in schools and whatnot are usually just a zip file you extract and run.
  - orionblastar 6y ago
    More like a portable CS that can be placed in the documents directory and run from there. I remember my son's cousins installing software while not as admin on my Windows PC by installing in the documents directory. CS, AOL Chat, etc. A good way to get malware as well. I could never trust those cracked versions. One cracked version made CS 1.6 with Navy Seals looking for bin Laden, which I thought was fun.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
The first two are trivially solved by portable applications (AppDirs, Application Bundles, AppImage, etc.). Platform independence is only kinda true, as many of these things don't actually function correctly on anything but Chrome, so they effectively target just one platform.
- 32gbsd 6y ago
  Omg the modern web has become a monoculture!
- Klinky 6y ago
  Chrome runs on many different platforms.
tasogare 6y ago
Those are all very minors inconveniences. Installation took a few clicks, disk space is negligible for that category of apps (and if it isn’t re-downloading on each access is a more pressing issue). Only the platform thing matters, yet the exemple you give isn’t convincing given it’s super low market share.
- deleted 6y ago
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umaar 6y ago

I'm all for web apps, but does CS actually require admin rights? > disk space CS just downloaded 185mb of network resources for me to play. I would have thought those resources are stored on my disk, and not just in memory. > installation time That 185mb of resources took ~1 minute to download. By the time it had finished, it told me the server was full. Regardless this is still very impressive.

koonsolo 6y ago
I'm not going to claim that one is better than the other, because it's all about tradeoffs. But I'm sure more people played this right now because of the low barrier to entry. And the admin rights might not even be technical. Not a lot of people are fond of installing games on the laptop from work. But like I said, everything has tradeoffs.
- andybak 6y ago
  > But I'm sure more people played this right now because of the low barrier to entry. This is the key point. If I'd seen a post about CS with a zip of an executable I would have passed. Why? Because it probably wouldn't have run correctly or I would have had some other issue with it. Let alone checking the provenance and worrying about malware.
gsich 6y ago
>I'm all for web apps, but does CS actually require admin rights? No. The cracked version(s) that are played in schools and whatnot are usually just a zip file you extract and run.
- orionblastar 6y ago
  More like a portable CS that can be placed in the documents directory and run from there. I remember my son's cousins installing software while not as admin on my Windows PC by installing in the documents directory. CS, AOL Chat, etc. A good way to get malware as well. I could never trust those cracked versions. One cracked version made CS 1.6 with Navy Seals looking for bin Laden, which I thought was fun.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago

The first two are trivially solved by portable applications (AppDirs, Application Bundles, AppImage, etc.). Platform independence is only kinda true, as many of these things don't actually function correctly on anything but Chrome, so they effectively target just one platform.

32gbsd 6y ago
Omg the modern web has become a monoculture!
Klinky 6y ago
Chrome runs on many different platforms.

tasogare 6y ago

Those are all very minors inconveniences. Installation took a few clicks, disk space is negligible for that category of apps (and if it isn’t re-downloading on each access is a more pressing issue). Only the platform thing matters, yet the exemple you give isn’t convincing given it’s super low market share.

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