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The fact people prefer webapps over native locally run software because of '400MB' honestly pisses me off it's so stupidly trivial.
by Wissenschafter 2y ago
The fact people prefer webapps over native locally run software because of '400MB' honestly pisses me off it's so stupidly trivial.
- skydhash 2y agoIt's not for the storage or ram space. It's for being inefficient which always making me doubt about the company culture. If you want native capabilities so much, just build a proper software for the platform. If VLC and Calibre can do cross platform, you can do it too.
- squeaky-clean 2y agoIt's not native though. It's just a webapp in a second browser without any of the usual browser features, and reduced sandboxing. It's all the negatives of a webapp and all the negatives of a native app with none of the positives.
- pjmlp 2y agoA website packaged with the Web browser isn't a native app.
- hifromwork 2y agoHow is 400MB trivial? I run more than 2 programs at once, and this adds up. Imagine if every trivial process in your OS used 400MB on startup. And what pisses me off, is when I have to close resource heavy electron applications (signal, vs code) running in the background to free up RAM.