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Windows 10 works pretty well offline, FWIW. And of course you can make linux do almost anything you want it do.

• bombcar 5y ago
  Most everything works fine offline (think: airplane mode) - where it all goes to crap is when there is a connection but it’s slow, high latency, or losing packets. In fact, sometimes it’s worth it to hit airplane mode if your connection is bad until after everything is running.
  • OkGoDoIt 5y ago
    Exactly this. My personal hell recently has been the Audible app on iOS. I walk a lot and listen to audiobooks and often on my walks my cellular connection is not great, one bar or so. The Audible app had a redesign a year or two ago where it now instead of showing your library letting you play whatever you were listening to, it loads a home screen that tries to get you to buy more books, and you can’t do anything else until that finishes loading. But since it fails to load on a crappy connection, I usually end up killing the app, enabling airplane mode, and then re-opening the app. So stupid. For reference, my audiobooks are stored locally, a network connection is not required to continue playing. Yet somehow they have hindered the main functionality of the app by what I can only assume is sloppy coding.
    • LAC-Tech 5y ago
      Stuff like this is why I still have a portable mp3 player. I just plug it in, put mp3s on it, and it works.