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Such as? The only proprietary software I have running on my machine is electron apps, which are essentially bloated VMs. As we’ve seen from this thread, this i
by WD-42 4mo ago
Such as?
The only proprietary software I have running on my machine is electron apps, which are essentially bloated VMs. As we’ve seen from this thread, this is still apparently too great of an engineering feat for anthropic to tackle. I don’t think I’m unique in this regard.
- sgt 4mo agoTons and yeah of course some are also Electron apps but not all... Proprietary apps I can think of include Chrome, Teams until a few years ago (I think they just gave up), Steam, the JetBrains IDE's, Cursor, Discord, Matlab, ... Of course a lot of Linux users these days just live their lives through browsers. That's pretty sad.
- WD-42 4mo agoChrome: Is electron without electron Teams: Was electron Steam: Valve is deeply invested in Linux, this isn't them just shipping an app. Different category. Jetbrains: Java Cursor: Electron Discord: Electron Matlab: Java ABI compatibility doesn't matter for any of your examples.
- wqaatwt 4mo ago> Different category Isn’t Steam mostly webviews though ? > Java Well.. It’s not that massively different from running Qt apps in Gnome, though? > ABI compatibility I’m sure it matters for Swing to an large extent. Of course it the problem of the people developing the UI framework rather than the end app