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0 pointsbigstrat20031y ago0 comments

Except worse, because everything has to run in a gigantic web browser even if it could be a small native app.

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adwn1y ago

Except better, because it doesn't only work on Windows, and because I don't invite a dozen viruses into my computer.

Every native app has to be run in a gigantic special OS when it could be a small webapps running in a medium sized browser.

Many many ChromeOS (web based consumer OS) laptops are 4GB of ram. You do not want to try that with any normal OSes.

dkersten1y ago

That’s because windows is loaded with trash. You can easily run desktop Linux with 4 GB or RAM, and people have been doing it for decades.

VyseofArcadia1y ago

But the browser is running in that gigantic special OS. It's not like the OS magically disappears.

jauntywundrkind1y ago

I've already mentioned ChromeOS as one counter-example.

SerenityOS and Ladybird browser forked but until recently had a lot of overlap.

LG's WebOS is used on a range of devices, derived from the Palm Pre WebOS released in 2009.

The gigantic special OS is baggage which already has been cut loose numberous times. Yes you can run some fine light Linux OS'es in 4GB but man, having done the desktop install for gnome or kde, they are not small at all, even if their runtime is ok. And most users will then go open a web browser anyways. It's unclear to me why people clutch to the legacy native app world, why this other not-connected mode of computing has such persistent adherency to it. The web ran a fine mobile OS in 2009; Palm Pre rocked. It could today.

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adwn1y ago

Except better, because it doesn't only work on Windows, and because I don't invite a dozen viruses into my computer.

jauntywundrkind1y ago

Every native app has to be run in a gigantic special OS when it could be a small webapps running in a medium sized browser.

Many many ChromeOS (web based consumer OS) laptops are 4GB of ram. You do not want to try that with any normal OSes.

dkersten1y ago

That’s because windows is loaded with trash. You can easily run desktop Linux with 4 GB or RAM, and people have been doing it for decades.

VyseofArcadia1y ago

But the browser is running in that gigantic special OS. It's not like the OS magically disappears.

jauntywundrkind1y ago

I've already mentioned ChromeOS as one counter-example.

SerenityOS and Ladybird browser forked but until recently had a lot of overlap.

LG's WebOS is used on a range of devices, derived from the Palm Pre WebOS released in 2009.

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