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What I'm missing is Electron-everything. Teams as an electron app has made my Linux Laptop (with everyone in lockdown) our prime machine, everybody has an accou
by teekert 6y ago
What I'm missing is Electron-everything. Teams as an electron app has made my Linux Laptop (with everyone in lockdown) our prime machine, everybody has an account, all with their own Teams account set up. Soon we will have Office365 in Electron. Then Adobe tools. And then we can do all the things Windows can do (with a grain of salt) and more.
Sure, this will receive a lot of hate (Electron eat ram mmkay). In the mean time I'm having MS Office on Linux. Real and official. What a time to be alive.
- warkdarrior 6y agoElectron-based terminal is your starting point: https://hyper.is/ https://hyper.is/
- teekert 6y agoIt's not that I want it... I'd rather see native (of course), but if it will get us app parity with Windows, so my kids can grow up in Linux and still do O365, I'm happy.
- est31 6y agoThis already exists in the form of Chrome OS.
- teekert 6y agoI want my OS to have me as it's primary focus, not some company.
- fctorial 6y agochromium os?
- teekert 6y agoBetter than windows, less nice than straight up Linux (I prefer Ubuntu or Arch/EndeavourOS).
- mech422 6y agoyou want 'electron everything' putting google in control of all your apps, but you don't think they're customer focused enough to do the OS ? That sounds like its not gonna work well... (You could problably use how well Chrome has gone as a rough indicator...)
- teekert 6y agoI don't want electron everything. I prefer native FOSS everything. Electron is actually the property of Microsoft (via GitHub [0]). So at least for Office there are no extra parties. And again, no I don't want it, but I want app parity with Windows so my kids school can't force me to put Windows on my machines. And no O365 in the browser is not ok, it offers a very poor experience imo. Just using the tab key in Excel online is maddening, although I expect one could get used to, I don't wish it upon my kids. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)
- mech422 6y ago>>What I'm missing is Electron-everything. You actually said you wanted electron everything? Also, since electron is based on chromium...I sorta thought it was close enough to make my point.
- teekert 6y agoWhat Is said was indeed "What I'm missing is Electron-everything." TFA lists the new directions of distros, I'm missing "Electron-everything." in that list (Electron gives us new major apps we never had before and will continue to do so). I'm certainly not missing it in my life. Native O365 on Linux is unrealistic, they are even electronifying it on Windows. A bit of a miscommunication there.
- eeZah7Ux 6y agoThen stay away from electron.
- dingaling 6y agoWhy not just boot to Electron?
- frankzander 6y agoI don't get what you are glad about. Yes everything nowadays works somehow on Linux. Why don't you just use Windows or Apple? You don't obviously want open software for your work ... you only need software. What a time to be alive ... jail yourself and jubilate. I work complete without paying any cent for any licenses - because of open software. That is a reason to jubilate.
- teekert 6y agoI don't like Windows, I don't like Apple. I like Linux and open source. But my employer likes MS, and so does my kids' school.