Do not take it as a sterile polemics but as a consideration to push reasoning: why keep developing web apps? The classic reason is "eh, they do not need endpoi

Do not take it as a sterile polemics but as a consideration to push reasoning: why keep developing web apps? The classic reason is "eh, they do not need endpoints deploy". Witch in turn means endpoints (desktops) are just default install of some OS, often not up-to-date, often in abandoned and "derived" (degraded) semi-unknown states and only some servers have to be kept up in shape. That's in turn help cloud developments, with VPS etc and that's in turn result in: - a hyper-big attack surface - operation unable to know the infra they handle - devs unable to develop complete systems anymore Piling crap on crap and augmented malfunctioning and issues. VDI is the most common apotheosis nowadays. We need to talk remotely? Ok, the BEST solution so far is a damn physical desktop phone, possibly one not full of crap, with a good mic+speaker, noise cancellation etc. Of course that means we need a room on the remote side, a room per head, to avoid talking one on another and YES, we need that to properly work from remote. No matter if it's learning or working: smart working is just a way to hope offloading costs to the workers instead of developing a real remote working/remote learning setup. Anyway, we do prefer soft-phones? Ok, no issues. That a dual monitor desktop is mandatory, one to have the participants of the conference and the other to work on. The very first thing needed to remote teaching or working is actually working from remote, locally, not on some web app central-point-of-failure. That's might be problematic for some, but that's is. We can't do anything better. Trying means just allowing bad behaviors. Back more on topic: what's needed for the student? - A note taking solution, a real one, not crappy WYSIWYG office suite, something that integrate anything in notes, calendars, file attachments, mails etc. my personal combo is Emacs/org-mode/org-agenda/notmuch/org-roam, unfortunately I can't suggest anything else since all from Zim to TiddlyWiki passing through Jopling and LogSeq are simply too limited and limiting for real work... - collaboration with local work shared with peers of any cohort, that might include single documents real-time sharing / screen sharing but also classic cooperation like modern dCVS - communication (voice, video is normally not needed for the student), witch range from classic SIP/RTP to Jami What's need the teacher? That's more complex: for frontal lessons the need is seeing the entire class, witch is dramatically hard from remote. It can approximately be done with a classic cinema like setup with an entire wall to see students stitched enough but large enough to see them individually without doing anything special. For the rest just screen sharing suffice, to share a "blackbird alike" UI. That's is IMO, witch means that dedicated rooms are needed, witch means having homes apt to WFH/remote learning AND hw investments, software is just a piece of the puzzle and can't substitute the physical parts.